The Lost Civic Life of Movie Rental Stores
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Hacker News is sharing an MIT Press Reader essay on the civic life of movie rental stores—exploring how they functioned as gathering places and informal public squares, not just rental counters. The piece reflects on what communities lost as streaming technology displaced those brick-and-mortar venues.
Source: https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-lost-civic-life-of...
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