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VHS Cover Wall Is 3600-Strong, May or May Not Have A Tanning Salon Out Back

By John Herrman Published April 20, 2009, 4:08 am ET

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Our children may never get to experience the revelatory joy of wandering through the miles of barely organized VHS shelves of a sleepy local video store, but at least they’ll have this. [3600 via Metafilter]

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