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Hi friends! In my latest newsletter, I'm making it a Blockbuster weekend. There's a Blockbuster Video pop-up bar in Los Angeles that's making news, and, down in Florida, a bar that plays on Blockbuster nostalgia. I have details on both in The Retrologist newsletter, at link in bio, but for my money, it doesn’t get better than the real thing, and that’s the Last Blockbuster in Bend, Oregon, which I visited in May 2021. The first five photos are from that store, and the rest are of an abandoned one I stumbled upon in Ashland, Kentucky, back in June. Also in the newsletter, I visit one of the last McMansards in NYC and share headlines about an iconic California sign that's making a big comeback next week. To play on the Blockbuster theme, please "be kind" and subscribe! Link is in my bio and also in my stories. 🙂#retrologist (at United States of America) https://www.instagram.com/p/ClwS_KCrffr/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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McMansard: 1938 November 1938. "Rooming house. Omaha, Nebraska." The McCormick Furnished Apartments. Medium format negative by John Vachon. View full size.

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Lakewood- New Jersey from Tablet magazine

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Readers of the Daily Times newspaper in Mamaroneck, New York, got the news on Halloween 1962 – and it was a treat, not a trick for locals eager to have a Golden Arches of their very own. McDonald’s was coming to town, replacing an old custard stand and miniature golf course on Old Boston Post Road. The menu would feature 10 items, with 30 employees making sure the Speedee Service System was zipping along. Burgers were still just 15 cents, and they were anticipating cranking out 6,000 of them a day. The average customer was to expect a hamburger, fries and a milkshake in 50 seconds. On its second birthday, this McDonald’s had already sold 1,600,000 burgers … and 10 of those were stolen by a real-life “Hamburglar” years before the McDonaldland character was introduced. Our thief – no word on whether the only words in his vocabulary were “robble robble” – made away with his bag of burgers without paying in March 1965. This building you see today, a now rare mansard, replaced the original walk-up, glass-and-tile structure, flanked by the Golden Arches. The last time the interior got a workover was in early 1992, when it was given a 1950s-inspired rock ‘n roll makeover that survives to this day, and which, based on tips from folks here on Instagram, I checked out on Sunday. Like those “Miami Vice” Taco Bells I’ve posted, the tables here went heavy on pastels. Unlike the Taco Bells, the look embraced 1950s memorabilia on the walls, jukeboxes on the table at one point, neon tubing and even an old bumper car I’m told is from nearby Rye Playland. There are even “loose” chairs, not bolted to the tile floor, then a fast-food novelty. I last visited this McDonald’s in 1995, and it’s barely changed. That’s rare these days, as the old “McMansards” continue to vanish. The last one I showed you, posted two weeks ago today and just photographed by me, is already going down. I’m not sure how long the Mamaroneck store will be around in this form, so if you’re anywhere nearby and care about this stuff, you know what you have to do! #retrologist #mcmansard (at McDonald's) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ccgxv6-rZdd/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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4982 Shirley Street - Las Vegas Nevada 

The former home of liberace