Royal Video Exchange

rhodamine

ive never been in this place, but their signage speaks of another era... wonder how it compares to video edge?

http://www.citynoise.org/article/3113

alafairnadia

wait, where is it?

rhodamine

alafairnadia wrote: wait, where is it?

242 flatbush (at bergen)

there are apparently three "royal video exchanges" in brooklyn:

look here

tony balls

Flatbush @ 6th, technically, but if one gets to Flatbush and Bergen and cant find it, they can feel free to call me and i'll personally come down and call them an idiot.

pheightsgirl

I've browsed through but never rented. Their selection seemed fine.

alafairnadia

Tony Balls wrote: Flatbush @ 6th, technically, but if one gets to Flatbush and Bergen and cant find it, they can feel free to call me and i'll personally come down and call them an idiot.

wow, that sounds like fun. thankfully, I avoid Flatbush past St. Marks. it's scary down there.

pheightsgirl

alafairnadia wrote: [quote=Tony Balls]Flatbush @ 6th, technically, but if one gets to Flatbush and Bergen and cant find it, they can feel free to call me and i'll personally come down and call them an idiot.

wow, that sounds like fun. thankfully, I avoid Flatbush past St. Marks. it's scary down there.

Scary?!? Of what?

alafairnadia

PHeightsGirl wrote: [quote=alafairnadia][quote=Tony Balls]Flatbush @ 6th, technically, but if one gets to Flatbush and Bergen and cant find it, they can feel free to call me and i'll personally come down and call them an idiot.

wow, that sounds like fun. thankfully, I avoid Flatbush past St. Marks. it's scary down there.

Scary?!? Of what?

er, people calling you idiot?

kevin_on_putnam

PHeightsGirl wrote: [quote=alafairnadia][quote=Tony Balls]Flatbush @ 6th, technically, but if one gets to Flatbush and Bergen and cant find it, they can feel free to call me and i'll personally come down and call them an idiot.

wow, that sounds like fun. thankfully, I avoid Flatbush past St. Marks. it's scary down there.

Scary?!? Of what?

Of yelling maniacs

rhodamine

i head down thataways often to hit the salvation army thrift store...

alafairnadia

rhodamine wrote: i head down thataways often to hit the salvation army thrift store...

ahh, yeah. there are good things in that direction, I just rarely find myself there. I mean, I am the person trying to 'motivate' and walk over to visit the crown heights dressmaker whose window I covet whenever I ride by in a car. getting me that far down flatbush would require installing a handbag store or an ethiopian restaurant.
alafairnadia = too insular, by far.

rhodamine

alafairnadia wrote: [quote=rhodamine]i head down thataways often to hit the salvation army thrift store...

ahh, yeah. there are good things in that direction, I just rarely find myself there. I mean, I am the person trying to 'motivate' and walk over to visit the crown heights dressmaker whose window I covet whenever I ride by in a car. getting me that far down flatbush would require installing a handbag store or an ethiopian restaurant.
alafairnadia = too insular, by far.

you just need to get a skateboard- its all down hill from your place

jack krohn

Video Edge is much better than this place. Royal's selection, IMO, is pretty bad. I think that they will eventually join the ranks of "priced out" casualties.

alafairnadia

rhodamine wrote: you just need to get a skateboard- its all down hill from your place

I'm too chicken for that.

but. um. why did I say ethiopian restaurant?! anyone want ethiopian food tonight? I'm suddenly dying fur nurf bread and lentils ...

rhodamine

alafairnadia wrote: anyone want ethiopian food tonight? I'm suddenly dying fur nurf bread and lentils ...

dude. sometime, we need to go to this place in my old neighborhood in hells kitchen, over on 10th ave... WOW. tops for ethiopian. and also honey mead

tony balls

If you don't go down there, you deny yourself of O'Connors, which is just plain criminal.

alecorock

Royal Video is a "guys" video store. Meaning it is full of king fu flicks, video games and a very well stocked adult section. If you go there on a Monday morning you'll find unemployed, compulsive masturbators stacking up like ten movies for the day...

alafairnadia

Tony Balls wrote: If you don't go down there, you deny yourself of O'Connors, which is just plain criminal.

oh well. I'll await my citation at soda, sepia, mooney's or indigo.

tony balls

HA!

I should make fake tickets and give them to people for hanging out at lame bars.

alafairnadia

Tony Balls wrote: HA!

I should make fake tickets and give them to people for hanging out at lame bars.

isn't o'connors the place that only serves beer in bottles?

tony balls

before we get into a bar debate, I wasnt dissing your choices. I've been to two of em and they were okay enough. I just thought the citation idea was funny.


NOW, yes O'Connors only has bottled beer. It doesnt bother me one bit. I'd drink draft, sure, but it's not killing me to rip a bottle. PLUS, I get to hang out at the best bar this side of the Mason/Dixon while i'm doing it! Hoorah!

alafairnadia

Tony Balls wrote: before we get into a bar debate, I wasnt dissing your choices. I've been to two of em and they were okay enough. I just thought the citation idea was funny.


NOW, yes O'Connors only has bottled beer. It doesnt bother me one bit. I'd drink draft, sure, but it's not killing me to rip a bottle. PLUS, I get to hang out at the best bar this side of the Mason/Dixon while i'm doing it! Hoorah!

good lord! what's your choice on the other side of the m/d?

rhodamine

Tony Balls wrote: before we get into a bar debate, I wasnt dissing your choices. I've been to two of em and they were okay enough. I just thought the citation idea was funny.


NOW, yes O'Connors only has bottled beer. It doesnt bother me one bit. I'd drink draft, sure, but it's not killing me to rip a bottle. PLUS, I get to hang out at the best bar this side of the Mason/Dixon while i'm doing it! Hoorah!

plus, oconnors is CHEAP. like, last time i was there, for less than $10, i had enough shots/beer to be suitably trashed. my bar tab for the same effect in any vanderbilt ave bar would be closer to $40. hahahaha

btw, i love the tangent this thread has taken. lol.

alafairnadia

rhodamine wrote: plus, oconnors is CHEAP. like, last time i was there, for less than $10, i had enough shots/beer to be suitably trashed. my bar tab for the same effect in any vanderbilt ave bar would be closer to $40. hahahaha

o rly? hrm. perhaps (GASP) I will make the trek sometime. it's just so painfully far away.
and everyone on vandy knows how to make my g&t.

tony balls

rhodamine wrote:

btw, i love the tangent this thread has taken. lol.

it is the same tangent my life has taken!



my favorite bar anywhere on the planet is Rudyard's Pub in Houston TX. It is, in a word, perfect.

tony balls

p.s. for reference a G&T at O'Connors should run you about $3, maybe $4 depending on yr Gin.

alafairnadia

Tony Balls wrote: p.s. for reference a G&T at O'Connors should run you about $3, maybe $4 depending on yr Gin.

oh. that's about what it costs me on vandy.
there's no justice in the world.

kevin_on_putnam

Tony Balls wrote: p.s. for reference a G&T at O'Connors should run you about $3, maybe $4 depending on yr Gin.

wow, not bad, do they take food stamps?