Blockbuster Video Pewter Keychain Store Opening 1997 St Simons Island GA NOS Tag
The pewter tag is in very nice condition. It was never used, but stored in a box in a drawer for the last 25 years or so.
The ring itself is made of a cheaper metal.
I
was there, in the glory days of Blockbuster... pre-2000. News articles
will tell you the glory days were in the early 2000's, but they're
wrong. In the mid to late 1990's, those were the final days of our own
Camelot; where there simply was "not a more congenial spot for
happily-ever-aftering." I met my wife because of Blockbuster. Made
life-long friends there. Many happy memories.
In those days,
Blockbuster's motto was "Go Home Happy", and they meant it. Customers
would come in, spend hours, hanging out, picking movies, critiquing
favorites. It wasn't uncommon for whoever was there to join us after
work for drinks, snacks, and more movie talk at a nearby restaurant.
In
those final days, before the kingdom crumbled and the company turned on
customer and employee both, there was a heart and soul that I'd never
seen in any other job. When they asked for volunteers to open a new
store on St. Simons, several of us volunteered to help. That's where I
picked up a few of these keychains. Several of us became the core group
that got the new store running.
I eventually transferred back to
my home store, with many of my best friends. My only souvenir of that
time in St. Simons are the keychains. A few weeks ago, I found them
again. Hidden in a dark drawer, jumbled together with all the little
things you don't throw away, but don't need any more. It made me sad,
and miss the old days. And it's time to pass them on to someone else.
Maybe someone who'll keep this one in a place of importance, in a
collection to be treasured, an icon of a time that will never come
again.
If that's you, then click that 'buy it now' button. Don't let it be forgotten again.