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VHS Swap at Piranha Vintage

August 25, 2018 Leave a Comment

I went to a mystical, magical place the other day with Tapes from the Crypt called Piranha Vintage. Once a month they do a VHS swap meet, where people gather outside the store with boxes and boxes of video tapes you can purchase, trade, or get for free.

An Americna Werewolf in London, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Leprechaun 2
Just look at all these modern classics!

Little House on the Prairie box set, other tapes
Remember when season sets took up the entire width of your shelf?

More tapes
Everyone’s still waiting on that Blu-ray release of The Abyss, Mr. Cameron.

Boxes of tapesCartoon tapes
Cartoons (mostly Disney) here.

anime tapes
And late ’90s anime tapes over here.

Slayers, Pee Wee's Playhouse, board games
Krull and Tron board games! Please tell me the Krull game uses the glaive as a spinner.

Tapes in box with Rick Astley album
“Never gonna give you up, never gonna…” etc. etc.

blank tapes
The real gold’s in these blank tapes with on-air recordings (RARE TV SHOWS/MOVIES WITH OLD COMMERCIALS). I asked the guy selling these tapes what was on them, but he said they were mainly skateboarding videos and old Simpsons reruns. Ehh, not enough to bite.

Inside the Store

Inside store
Like the TARDIS, the inside of Piranha Vintage was bigger on the inside. It felt like a macro-version of a comic con table: old stuff, new stuff, weird stuff, cool stuff.

Alf
Alf is here to greet all visitors.

They Live head
Don’t need sunglasses to see this bad boy.

Power Rangers action figures
The Red Mystic Force Power Ranger on the upper right best describes how it feels to be inside this store.

Hen painting with Pac-Man pillow caseMasters of the Universe toys
Batman, Winnie the Pooh, Masters of the Universe…

New Kids on the Block products
Even New Kids on the Block had a corner of its own!

Video game shelf
They also sold video games here.

Horror VHS
And had tapes you could rent.

Robin and Captain BridgerSpace Battleship Yamato model
Look at this beauty!

Star Trek V Captain Kirk stand-up

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