Curtain Closing on Movie Gallery

Staff Reports 10:02PM / Wednesday April 21, 2010

There can't be many days left for the Movie Gallery. The shop stopped renting videos a couple days ago and the shelves are beginning to thin out as the price keeps dropping on used videos.

The store still has quite a few half-price games and new videos. If you're looking for a bargain better hurry down; a sign at the register warns "it may not be here when you come back."

The closure, part of a nationwide shutdown for the bankrupt company, ends a chapter in the local entertainment economy. Netflix, Redbox and similar services have closed a lot mom-and-pop and chain rental stores. Movie Gallery was the last major video rental service in the city. Another Movie Gallery closed in the Stop & Shop plaza some years ago. Another rental service operated out of 85 Main St. in the 1980s and early 1990s.

Hollywood Video in Pittsfield, also part of the Movie Gallery chain, was among the first round of closings after the company declared bankruptcy in February.

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City Council	Returned Papers
As of 8/9 at 5 p.m.
Lisa M. Blackmer*	Yes
Michael Bloom	Yes
Keith Bona*	Yes
David Bond*	Yes
Marie Harpin*	Yes
Alan Marden*	Yes
John Barrett	Yes
Eric R. Buddington	Yes
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Robert Cardimino	Yes
Catherine Chaput	Yes
~~Roland G. Gardner~~
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~~Shane Gaudreau~~
James B. Gyurasz	Yes
Michael Hernandez	Yes
Jennifer Breen Kirsch	Yes
~~Brian L. Flagg~~
Kellie A. Morrison	Yes
Greg Roach	Yes
Gail Kolis Sellers	Yes
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Ronald A. Boucher	Yes
Robert Martelle	Yes
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McCann School Committee
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