{"id":299814,"date":"2026-10-04T23:04:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T23:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/299814\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T23:04:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T23:04:07","slug":"south-philly-couple-challenges-the-streaming-machine-with-a-new-video-rental-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/299814\/","title":{"rendered":"South Philly couple challenges the streaming machine with a new video rental store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 More than a decade after Blockbuster and Hollywood Video closed their doors, a South Philly couple is opening their own movie rental shop.<\/p>\n<p>Dylan Wise of South Philly and his wife Keri wanted a place in their neighborhood where people could rent and buy movies and talk with other movie fans. So they decided to create their own shop: Little Movie Store. <\/p>\n<p>Located at the corner of 10th and McKean streets, the store is a throwback to an earlier time when Friday night meant a trip to the video store.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have about 17,000 movies; not all of them are cataloged in our system yet,\u201d Dylan said.<\/p>\n<p>They have a lot of VHS tapes, DVDs, Blu-ray, and 70 LaserDiscs.<\/p>\n<p>Just like Blockbuster, you\u2019ll need a membership to rent \u2014 you can get one at <a href=\"http:\/\/littlemoviestore.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">littlemoviestore.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen it comes to preserving movies, and preserving movie culture and having a physical place that you can go to do that, you know, nothing beats a physical movie,\u201d Dylan said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 More than a decade after Blockbuster and Hollywood Video closed their doors, a South&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299815,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[123561,3896,69,71,70,645],"class_list":["post-299814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-movie-rental","tag-movies","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-south-philadelphia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}