Hollywood Express video store closing June 30

[ron_newman]

Hollywood Express in Porter Square, the only remaining video store in our area, is closing on June 30 according to their web site. The web site says, "A grand sale of all our film inventory is currently ongoing."

At their height, they were a full-fledged mini-chain with additional locations in Davis Square (where Buffalo Exchange is now), Central Square, and Twin City Plaza. They survived the demise of all their big-chain competitors such as Blockbuster, West Coast Video, and (similarly named but unrelated) Hollywood Video.

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Stopped going when I was disabled

[smk0307.livejournal.com]

A couple of years ago I went to Hollywood Video regularly. When I was preparing for a knee replacement I asked if they had a handicapped entrance, which they don't. It was many, many months before I was able to negotiate stairs and in the meantime I started streaming. Who knows, if they had had a handicapped entrance I might be still renting from them. Good people working there, especially the folks who used to work in the Davis Square site.