Once valued as a $3 billion company, Blockbuster owned over 9,000 stores in the US. In 2010, Blockbuster filed for bankruptcy with $1 billion in debt.

Blockbuster Video was the biggest, brightest of video rental options throughout the '80s, '90s, and early 2000s. However, all that remains today is a lone store that sells nostalgic merch in Bend, ...

Before streaming took over the world, Friday night entertainment often involved a trip to Blockbuster. Families wandered the ...

Long before Netflix, there was Blockbuster Video. The very first Blockbuster Video Store opened on October 19, 1985, in Dallas, Texas. It was opened by David Cook as a lone video rental store, but the ...

Alaska's last two Blockbuster video stores are calling it quits, leaving just one store open in the U.S. The stores in Anchorage and Fairbanks will close for rentals after Sunday night and reopen ...

Blockbuster Video ruled home entertainment in the year 2000. The company had thousands of stores, and Friday nights weren’t complete without a trip to rent a movie. At the same time, Netflix was an ...

The curtain is coming down on the Blockbuster store on South Main Street. The Rutland video store at 173 South Main St. will close in mid-April, a store employee said Friday, declining further comment ...

BEND, Ore. — And then there was one. One Blockbuster video store in the United States, that is. It’s located in bend, Oregon. Two locations in Alaska will close next week. At its peak in 2004, there ...

Netflix killed the video store. Blockbuster as we knew it died Tuesday because the world is "clearly moving to digital distribution of video entertainment," according to DISH President and CEO Joseph ...

One of the surest signs of the passing of one epoch to another is that ordinary features of the earlier era come to be regarded, in the later era, as quaint or novel. Blockbuster employee Mat Wangrow ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This Week In history: The first Blockbuster video rental store opened on Oct. 19, 1985, in Dallas, Texas. Pictured here is the ...

Much like Blockbuster Video rental stores (of which you might be surprised to learn there is still one remaining), the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) was quietly ...