Thursday, September 1, 2016

I'm a fan of the 80s Twilight Zone(s). I feel some sacrilegious guilt for saying this, but actually like the 80s run better than the original Rod Serling Twilight Zone.
Anyways, there was an 80s episode titled The Card.. about a credit card company that doesn't f*ck around. If you miss a payment, they repossess everything that matters to the delinquent borrower.. prized personal possessions, your pets, your loved ones.
Re-watching the episode a few years back, I thought the location of the fictitious credit card office seemed familiar. Turns out it was located on my sometime, former commute thru Studio City CA. It was in strip mall on Ventura Blvd, that housed an old video rental place Video West. You can see the old Video West facade in this screen cap from the episode.















The video store was still operating 20+ years after the Twilight Zone episode was filmed, and held on deep into the years when traditional video stores were folding up..


















A cool, creepy episode. It's on YouTube, but looks like the uploader just held his phone to a tv screen to record it.

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