You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. David Cook opened the first Blockbuster in 1985. After working in computer software, founder David ...

Once valued as a $3 billion company, Blockbuster owned over 9,000 stores in the US. In 2010, Blockbuster filed for bankruptcy with $1 billion in debt.

Wow... what a difference 38 years makes. If you were in the Dallas area on Oct. 19, 1985, you could have been among the very first movie lovers to make it a ...

Long before Netflix, there was Blockbuster Video. The very first Blockbuster Video Store opened on October 19, 1985, in Dallas, Texas. It was opened by David Cook as a lone video rental store, but the ...