Why We All Miss Blockbuster Video (2023)
It’s a dark and rainy Friday night in Ramsgate sometime during September 2001 and I’m running the late shift at Blockbuster Video. I’m standing at the counter facing down a monster of a guy with a chin like an anvil who I just KNOW is going to be trouble. He is GLARING at me.
Ramsgate During the 80s (2023)
I’m going to ask you a question at the end of this column…and I’m genuinely excited about the answers.
Let’s talk about the past.
It’s the late 1980s and I’m sitting outside Woolworths on Ramsgate High Street watching a man dressed as a chicken taking on Morris, the lovable town drunk, in a fight over a Kazoo. At least, I THINK the fight is about the Kazoo: at the moment, it’s pretty difficult to tell.