SRO Video is a cool little video store on the edge of Brookside. Its on the corner of Gregory and Oak. In the age of Netflix and BlockBuster, it can still be cool to go to a local small time video store.
It's kind of cross between that music store in High Fidelity and the video store in Clerks. The clerks look like movie geeks. It definitely doesn't have that chain store feel. One of the first times I went there, Zoe needed to go to the bathroom. The bathroom is in the basement. So we went downstairs. Now the basement is this giant unfinished room. It has ancient rock walls and a low ceiling. The walls are plastered with old movie posters, videos and other stuff. You get this feel that people have either been murdered and buried there or that stoners hang out and stare at a lava lamp while listening to Bob Marley.
Upstairs in the back is a walled off room with a curtain in front of it. My wife keeps a sharp eye on me so I haven't gone in there, but I get the impression that is where the "adult" fair is stored.
Once a month they have free beer night. You go in and they'll give you a free beer while you browse. Not a bad deal, bear and movie for about 3 bucks. If you live in the Brookside or Waldo area, give Blockbuster a break and try out SRO.
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