![]() Such titles were never even a possibility at the Hollywood Video. Inside Video Hut, to the side of the counter through a pair of swinging doors, sits a large back room full of adult films, some on VHS, but most on DVD. The primary difference between these stores is also the one usually ignored by scholars in their discussions of home video. Movie Gallery, Inc., which owned the Hollywood Video and Movie Gallery video store chains, is no more. The dead store was a Hollywood Video, along with six other locations in the area. ![]() ![]() Video Hut, an independent, locally owned, single-store business, has operated continuously since 1983, moving a few blocks from a previous location in 1987. While not necessarily busy, a steady flow of traffic enters, which was also the pattern at the dead location before its closure. Just off the same road, a few miles away in the city of Ypsilanti, a different scene plays out at another video store. Construction workers fill the space now, preparing it for another tenant. Near my home in Ann Arbor, Michigan, a dead video store haunts a busy street. ![]()
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