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JC Video

  • 27-12-2020 11:04PM
    #1
    FHFM50
    Closed Accounts Posts: 165 ✭✭


    Anyone remember them? Opposite the post office.

    It was a cold place but they had every movie (except the new ones :D)

    Do the owners still live in Carlow?


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  • #2
    toe_knee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 841 ✭✭✭toe_knee


    Remeber it well. Serious collection of videos. Often rented games and consoles from it too


  • #3
    iano.p
    Closed Accounts Posts: 817 ✭✭✭iano.p


    FHFM50 wrote: »
    Anyone remember them? Opposite the post office.

    It was a cold place but they had every movie (except the new ones :D)

    Do the owners still live in Carlow?

    God I loved jc and horror collection up stairs. The family are still around john record's a lot of the schools concerts. I think he transfer old vhs to dvd or sd card for people also.


  • #4
    FHFM50
    Closed Accounts Posts: 165 ✭✭FHFM50


    iano.p wrote: »
    God I loved jc and horror collection up stairs. The family are still around john record's a lot of the schools concerts. I think he transfer old vhs to dvd or sd card for people also.

    Do they own the casino that's there now?


  • #5
    iano.p
    Closed Accounts Posts: 817 ✭✭✭iano.p


    FHFM50 wrote: »
    Do they own the casino that's there now?

    No as far as I know they still own the building. The casino is run by a man from Portlaoise from what I can remember


  • #6
    Delirah
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 56 ✭✭Delirah


    I loved it, you could spend hours browsing!
    Kids videos for 50p.
    We rented a video player and Never Ending Story there, before we bought one 😂 I was very young!
    They had fines if you didn't rewind the videos before you returned them.


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  • #7
    wheres me jumpa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,480 ✭✭✭wheres me jumpa


    Loved it. Memory a bit a hazy of it now.

    I think there was a narrow set of shelves with the new videos, then the rest of the shop was just classics and absolute rubbish! The horror section in particular sticks out, probably a lot of movies now well lost.

    I remember renting Sega Megadrives overnight from them and some fuzzy memory of buying posters in there (they may have had a display of posters?).

    I think they had a multi day rent option as well, we would take a new release home to the country for a few days!


  • #8
    maccored
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,793 ✭✭✭✭maccored


    posters in there alright. I used to rent one of the wee tellys with built in video player. Think it was a tenner deal or something including videos for two nights. jaysus - imagine


  • #9
    Nalz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 17,186 ✭✭✭✭Nalz


    wheres me jumpa wrote: »
    Loved it. Memory a bit a hazy of it now.

    I think there was a narrow set of shelves with the new videos, then the rest of the shop was just classics and absolute rubbish! The horror section in particular sticks out, probably a lot of movies now well lost.

    I remember renting Sega Megadrives overnight from them and some fuzzy memory of buying posters in there (they may have had a display of posters?).

    I think they had a multi day rent option as well, we would take a new release home to the country for a few days!

    You took a leak there before too G! That memory might be hazzayee!!


  • #10
    wheres me jumpa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,480 ✭✭✭wheres me jumpa


    Nalz wrote: »
    You took a leak there before too G! That memory might be hazzayee!!

    Leaks were taken in Quinnsworth car park, within the wall of the round tree. Not in JC.


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