Baltimore's Video Americain, one of the few remaining video rental shops in a dying industry, has gotten a shout-out in the New York Times' small business blog.
Miguel Gomez recently opened — you guessed it, a video store! — in suburban Philadelphia and told the New York Times that streaming and online video rentals can't beat the personal experience of browsing through titles and getting recommendations at a store.
"There aren’t too many video stores left in the country, but the ones that are left are all pretty great," Gomez
tells the New York Times. "Baltimore has
Video Americain, Seattle has
Scarecrow Video, Austin has both
I Luv Video and
Vulcan Video, San Francisco has both
Lost Weekend Video and
Le Video … so there are communities still supporting video stores, as long as the video stores have stellar inventories."
Video Americain has two Maryland locations: one on Cold Spring Lane in Roland Park and another in Takoma Park. Last year, it
closed its Charles Village shop.