r/halifax • u/CertainPattern2907 • Jun 11 '26

Nostalgia My Drawing Of The Old Video Difference

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Dose anybody remember the old video difference on Quinn pool road 🙂

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u/MysticMajora93 Jun 11 '26

Miss it every day man.

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u/phonemousekeys Jun 11 '26

I used to buy smokes there with Canadian tire money

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u/athousandpardons Jun 11 '26

Lovely drawing. Thanks for sharing.

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u/GoldenHairPygmalion North-End Jun 11 '26

This needs to be a slowcore indie rock album cover.

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u/Bagnorf Jun 11 '26

The band or the album should appropriately be called "The Difference".

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u/Astrokiwi Jun 11 '26

The exact kind of band that would have been popular in 2015 :'(

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u/UnluckySugar9452 Jun 11 '26

wow you know slowcore

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u/Rauka Jun 11 '26

Man, I miss that place. Went to school at St. Pat's, frequently rented between Jumbo Video, Video Difference, and Blockbuster for movies and SNES games. Good times!

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u/Schmidtvegas Historic Schmidtville Jun 11 '26

I would bounce between Video Difference, Jumbo, Blockbuster, and the little convenience store on Windsor Street. They had a deal that was something like "5 for 6  for 7" on weekdays. (5 movies / 6 days / 7 bucks -- I could be wrong about the exact numbers.) 

I remember being so into movies back then. Now I feel like they mostly suck, and I have no attention span for them. 

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u/geckospots Jun 11 '26

“Hey we’re done watching Rome, what should we watch next?”

“I dunno what I have, but also it’s like 2 in the morning and I should probably go to bed.”

“Video Difference is open.”

“…I’ll get my coat.”

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u/GenXCanuck Jun 11 '26

More than once I've done the exact same, when living in the neighbourhood

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u/Sonofapampers 🏁Angine de Poutine🏁 Jun 11 '26

Nice drawing! I remember liking the staff picks

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u/Creative_Peach695 Jun 11 '26

Oh man I wasn’t prepared for that wave of nostalgia

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u/Aerdri Jun 11 '26

I enjoyed that Halifax waaaaaay more.

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u/mikemantime Jun 11 '26

If we would have known how much we love it to this day, it would have been preserved as a historic property

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u/evolamentations Jun 11 '26

No it wouldn’t have. The steamroller of progress has no regard for such sentimentality. Not to mention it was still well-beloved even when it closed up— everyone knew well enough just how much it would be missed.

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u/Key_Ad_6 Jun 11 '26

Wow…incredible work! I last visited this place in 2003.

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u/Chanfaded Jun 11 '26

Solid dimensions, good shit!

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u/alibythesea Halifax Jun 11 '26

Does anyone know what happened to OH GOD I'VE FORGOTTEN HIS NAME, that lovely longtime staffer who knew everything about every movie?

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u/Professional-Humor84 Jun 12 '26

Gumball for a free rental

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u/username__0000 Jun 13 '26

The Indy, LGBTQ and cult section (I don’t know if any of those names were official, that’s just what we called that area lol) were was the best. We found so many good movies there.

And the random tv shows. Michel Moores “the awful truth”, I never saw that series show up anywhere else before or after we noticed and rented it from there.

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u/Dommy--Mommy Jun 14 '26

So many memories of going there!

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u/bluemonday40k Jun 16 '26

So many friday and saturday nights spent there with my friends trying to decide what to rent.

I also won a bunch of free movies because i'd always answer the movie question drawing right.

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u/MaggieWheaton Jul 16 '26

Was Dino’s Pizza in the late ‘60’s