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unusual facts about video store



Michael DiGiorgio

He worked on BART with Kaiser Sand & Gravel, spent time as a stockbroker, worked for the family business at DiGiorgio Corp., managed Sun Aire commuter airliner out of Palm Springs, California, worked for aircraft speculators out of London, UK before finally moving to Novato in 1989 and purchasing a video store.


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Daniel J. Snyder

Daniel Snyder’s education in media and filmmaking began during high school when he landed a job at Video Archives, the now-famous video store in Manhattan Beach, California, where he worked as a video clerk alongside future filmmakers Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary.

Do You Like Hitchcock?

The Hitchcock videos rented or taken from the video store include Strangers on a Train and Dial M for Murder while the posters include Vertigo and images of Alfred Hitchcock himself.

Fernando Tejero

In that same year, during the casting of the now-famous Spanish ensemble comedy Aquí no hay quien viva, he was originally offered the part of Paco, the video store clerk.

Jules Jordan

Jordan is from Hershey, Pennsylvania, and got his start in the porn industry by working at a local porn video store called Excitement Video.

Martin Cahill

With all gang members from the Lacey kidnapping released on bail, on 18 August 1994, Cahill left the house at which he had been staying at Swan Grove and began driving to a local video store to return a borrowed copy of A Bronx Tale.

Sean Gehon

Gehon worked as a video store employee until joining MuchMusic VJ Search ending as the first runner-up — and the only openly gay contestant — in the 2006 series that was won by Tim Deegan.

West End, Queensland

Scenes for the feature film Jucy (2010) were shot at the now-defunct video store Trash Video in the suburb.

Xbox Games Store

Various films and TV shows wee available for purchase in the Video Store, including both past and present series, such as Star Trek and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.

Xbox Video

(Windows Phone 7 users may play purchased content on their smartphones after syncing, because a compatible Video Store app is not yet available.)