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, ...

New Blockbuster owner Dish Network is confirming that it will be closing another 500 Blockbuster locations. Some will be stores with expiring leases, while others will be underperforming units that ...

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 ...

The Blockbuster video store in Bend will be bringing back the ’80s during a block party celebration of four decades of renting videos. Think big hair. Lots of jewelry. And movie and music icons. It ...

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 ...

Despite the odds, Blockbuster is turning 40 — and cinephiles nostalgic for the ’90s and 2000s are invited to join in on the celebration. Well, kind of. Blockbuster launched in 1985 and hit its peak ...

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 ...

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 ...