It's , family movie night is on the calendar and you're on your way home from work. Just stop by Blockbuster on the way home, right? With over 9, locations around the country, it'd be hard to not drive by one. In case the recent heat waves have gotten you deliriously time-tripping, consider this your snap back to reality.
It's not and there certainly aren't 9, Blockbuster franchises left. It's , there's just one Blockbuster store left, and this nightmarish heat wave certainly isn't done yet. The last-standing store is located in Bend, Oregon, and this week, don't you dare touch the door handle, manager Sandi Harding said.
Since the closure of the franchise in Morley, Western Australia, Harding's store in Bend has been the sole survivor of the once-beloved rental chain. Harding went on to explain that she was driving in a bad winter storm at the time when a reporter from Australia called her. She was unable to take the call to find out her store would be the last one open because there were snow berms everywhere. Harding said that the staff from the second-to-last location was encouraging in a phone call on the store's last day in business and wished the Bend staff well, hoping the Oregon location would "stay open forever.
Sandi Harding shows Bill Wadell around the air-conditioned Blockbuster, the last franchise remaining open. It's been quite a whirlwind adventure for us," she said. That record-breaking heat continued to scorch the state of Oregon, with all new high marks set on Tuesday. Multiple locations in the Beaver State broke daily records by more than 10 degrees Fahrenheit, including Hermiston's F reading, which fell just one degree shy of Oregon's all-time statewide record set in For Amber Hall, a Dallas resident visiting her friends in Oregon, the brutal heat wave was a huge disappointment.
I'm dripping with sweat," she told Wadell. Hall said she was hoping for a break from the Texas heat by traveling north, but heard of the record-breaking heat shortly before leaving. But Hall, like Bend resident Kiley Stone, wasn't about to let the sweltering conditions keep she and her friends from visiting the historic Blockbuster location.
Amber Hall drove up to Oregon from Dallas and was disappointed by the intense heat that she was hoping to escape from. Comparing the Oregon conditions to those of a desert, Stone said she has been particularly annoyed by the dryness and timing of the heat, which she said she would normally expect in late July or August.
Plus, at a time when consumers are done scrolling through Netflix and Hulu and have watched everything there is on Amazon Prime due to the continuing theater closures and production stoppages because of the pandemic, Blockbuster offers tangible content for which people actually have to leave their homes.
People wanted to help so much, in fact, that the server crashed in early August due to orders. But Harding decided to play up the nostalgia factor a bit more and teamed up with Airbnb for locals to sleep over at the establishment for one night.
In fact, it runs on computer systems that are not connected to the internet, and the employees still use floppy disks and hand-written membership cards, because the dot-matrix printer broke. During the pandemic, someone who had worked for IBM cleaned out his garage and found pieces and asked if I wanted them, and he brought me parts and pieces. Besides Disneyland, I have one of the coolest places to work and everyone is happy to be here.
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