Word: moms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Michael Cooperson '87 says his childhood was "just not normal. My Mom sang Greek hymns in the kitchen. At one point my Dad went around speaking Yiddish to everyone, even though we couldn't understand...
...than 35,000 today. Everyone from car-wash operators to grocers to American Express has got into the act of dispensing tapes. The array of new outlets is bringing lower prices, wider selection and greater convenience for consumers, but it is also beginning to squeeze out many of the mom-and-pop operators. "A little fellow's got no chance," says Larry Rodriguez of Salinas, Calif., who lost a $40,000 investment last year when his son's video shop failed because of the tough competition...
...firm, the average price of a prerecorded cassette has fallen from $51.60 in 1984 to $27 this year. Many classic movies now sell for only $19.95, and children's films often go for $14.95. This has prompted many mass merchandisers, notably Sears, to start selling cassettes in their stores. Mom-and-pop shops, which started out in rentals only, have been slow to adapt to the trend. One reason is the higher cost of selling tapes outright, since the stores must pay for large inventories. Big retail chains tend to get better wholesale terms from the movie studios and therefore...
...Many mom-and-pop cassette shops believe they can compete by offering more personal service and refined video titles. Husband-and-Wife Entrepreneurs Brad and Leslie Burnside of Evanston, Ill., who plan this month to open their third Video Adventure store, attract an upscale clientele by stocking foreign titles and films featuring dance and opera. Unless other neighborhood video shops find such niches, they could conceivably go the way of the malt shop and the soda fountain...
Landis said he knew he wanted to be a director since he was eight years old. "I saw `Sinbad' and asked my mom, `Who did that?' and she said, `The director...