Photo Gallery on the Times Colonist
Showing Video-store owners keep the faith
When Mike Griese began renting some of his VHS collection out of his Fairfield corner store in the spring of 1982, he never imagined he'd still be renting videos 30 years later.
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Audio Video Replay manager Jen Rundell: "We're Peter Pan and this is our Neverland."
Photograph by: Bruce Stotesbury, Times Colonist
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Gillian Friedland and one-year-old Molly pick out DVDs at the Esquimalt library branch. Molly, unsurprisingly, is a big Elmo fan.
Photograph by: Darren Stone, Times Colonist
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Mike Griese, the Victoria video rental pioneer a.k.a. the original Crazy Mike, posing with his lifesize replica of a gun-toting Princess Leia in his downtown store.
Photograph by: Bruce Stotesbury, Times Colonist
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Specialty features such as a Movie Monday section and a wide selection of independent, foreign and cult films have helped Oak Bay's Yo Video weather the challenges of competition from the Internet.
Photograph by: Darren Stone, Times Colonist
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Pic A Flic Video owner Rob Nesbitt and his dog Suzy at the Cook Street store: "I think people appreciate the human element that cannot be duplicated."
Photograph by: Bruce Stotesbury, Times Colonist
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Photograph by: Bruce Stotesbury, Times Colonist
