Kelly Moore recounts his time spent as one of the co-owner that original purchased Howard Hughes Video Store from Howard Hughes Appliance and Video. Background on Gary Myers (who spearheaded the purchasing) given. Moore remembers when betamax and VHS tapes were fighting for popularity. Moore mentions the store location was a struggle the move had to overcome. He says he and his wife were part of the co-op on main street in the beginning but when it was acutally sold to the co-op they were no longer a part of the video store.

Beau Newsome: Okay, see a little recording sign up there.

Beau Newsome: You awesome well i'm Bo newsome and i'm here with the University of Idaho libraries oral History project for the Howard Hughes video and mainstreet video co op.

Beau Newsome: Here, with Kelly Kelly, if you would introduce yourself and kind of describe your relationship to Howard Hughes video.

Kelly Moore: My name is Kelly more and I was one of the co owners that originally purchased.

Kelly Moore: The Howard Hughes video from Howard Hughes appliance it used to be Howard Hughes appliance and video and we bought the video section when Howard Hughes moved from what is across the street from the Co op.

Beau Newsome: yeah 114 fifth street.

Kelly Moore: yeah yeah.

Kelly Moore: And they moved out to their new location on the pullman highway and.

Kelly Moore: yeah at that point they sold us the video store.

Beau Newsome: And you purchase that from don and Kevin.

Beau Newsome: Yes, don frye and Kevin pietersen correct.

Kelly Moore: Yes, yeah okay.

Kelly Moore: Very cool, though, was Gary myers debbie Rentals myself and.

Kelly Moore: pad.

Kelly Moore: I can remember pat because I always.

Beau Newsome: Had Neil.

Kelly Moore: Neil so.

: yeah.

Beau Newsome: They were they part owners of the video store with you guys so.

Kelly Moore: Yes, yeah.

Beau Newsome: So it was five of you at the time that own the video store.

Kelly Moore: yeah I mean it was really pat That was the you know I mean it was basically do couples and Gary.

Kelly Moore: Okay okay and pat kneeling Gary owned the building.

Beau Newsome: Right okay that's That was the kind of the whole reason the store moved from fifth street to 520.

Kelly Moore: South mainstream right.

Beau Newsome: Because Gary owned.

: yeah.

Kelly Moore: And pat Neil.

Beau Newsome: Okay, all right.

Kelly Moore: So it was it was the three of them.

Kelly Moore: That had the building.

: Okay.

Beau Newsome: So I guess My first question is.

Beau Newsome: How long have you and deb lived in Moscow.

Kelly Moore: Well deb's been here.

Kelly Moore: I want to say 40 years.

Beau Newsome: That being your wife and.

Beau Newsome: Yes, and corner with.

Kelly Moore: To come on.

Beau Newsome: One of the company.

Kelly Moore: yeah and I was moved to Moscow, when I was three months old.

Beau Newsome: Okay.

Beau Newsome: So.

Beau Newsome: For your your local area.

Beau Newsome: That is locals against.

Kelly Moore: Almost yes my brother was born in grip.

Kelly Moore: Okay, so he's he was really local.

Kelly Moore: Not anymore, but.

: Right.

Beau Newsome: And then DAB moved here what how old is that when she was here.

Kelly Moore: Oh gosh don't know she came out here to go to college.

Beau Newsome: Okay, so okay.

Beau Newsome: You went to you via.

Beau Newsome: Yes, okay.

Beau Newsome: um so I guess before you guys own the video store did you rent did you were you guys renting movies, like.

Kelly Moore: Not not too much, but what.

Kelly Moore: It was it was Gary Gary buyers that convinced us to do this.

Beau Newsome: Okay.

Kelly Moore: I mean we were both the both deb and I and Gary were we were all business people in town, we really wanted to see the downtown keep going, and when we heard that the video star was gone away, we we just said, we can't let that happen.

Kelly Moore: Right, so I mean we didn't have any money, so our our input was to be be Labor and and do the books for well, it was long died before our share of the business was paid for.

Beau Newsome: Right right so would you say that Gary was kind of spearheaded the whole thing.

Kelly Moore: Oh yes, he definitely made made it happen.

Beau Newsome: yeah and maybe give it just a little background i've kind of Gary and.

Beau Newsome: Like he I know he was he was a local guy to correct or.

Kelly Moore: he'd been here for quite a while he owned the Royal motor.

Kelly Moore: Okay, so he he was a longtime businessman here in Moscow, he actually.

Kelly Moore: started the fish folks.

Beau Newsome: The one that outside the Co op that are.

Beau Newsome: Caught today okay.

Kelly Moore: Yes, he started that in it had it changed hands multiple times to the to the people that are here now but he's the one that actually started the fish folks.

Kelly Moore: And that that was part of what got him in Moscow and then he then he bought the hotel.

Beau Newsome: Okay.

Beau Newsome: And he was a big Dale.

Beau Newsome: motel and he was a big proponent of the ice rink.

Kelly Moore: tonight as well.

Beau Newsome: Yes, yeah which guy kind of got that whole thing started.

Kelly Moore: Well, it was a yeah I mean he was one of the people that definitely put in a lot of energy to to make it happen in the beginning.

Beau Newsome: Okay.

Beau Newsome: um.

Beau Newsome: So.

Beau Newsome: So pat and Gary and Neil owned the building.

Beau Newsome: Yes, together the 520 South Main Street.

Beau Newsome: yep and then came to you guys about hey, we need to try and.

Kelly Moore: Save the video store.

Beau Newsome: save this video star do you I can remember.

Beau Newsome: Can you still hear me.

Kelly Moore: Oh yeah okay.

Beau Newsome: I can remember, I don't know if don and Kevin were kind of.

Beau Newsome: Wanting to sell it at that point or.

Kelly Moore: Well, they they did not so there was.

Kelly Moore: Oh.

Kelly Moore: I can't remember her name.

Kelly Moore: But.

Kelly Moore: The the manager of the videos store the time that they move because they'd already moved the appliance store and the video store had gotten.

Beau Newsome: Bigger because you have.

Kelly Moore: To follow the appliance space.

Beau Newsome: yeah we've talked kind of talked about that the three four iterations there was a small store on the corner of Washington and fifth.

Beau Newsome: And then, it was the appliance store and then a little store point store mood and it became the big store.

Beau Newsome: yeah and then move to 520 South main and then became the main street COP.

Kelly Moore: yeah yeah yeah as far as the durations of it, because when Howard was still selling them appliance when it was Howard Hughes appliance.

Kelly Moore: Right and I actually when I guy we moved to Moscow moved to Boise when I was in second grade, and then I came back to you have i'd 75 and.

Kelly Moore: started school after I graduated high school down in Boise but.

Kelly Moore: I actually worked for Howard fixed and TVs.

Beau Newsome: Oh at the fifth stratification.

Kelly Moore: Well, he was originally up on on North main where.

Kelly Moore: Moscow building supply used to be.

Beau Newsome: Oh right okay on the.

Beau Newsome: West side of.

Kelly Moore: highway.

Beau Newsome: One side of where it is now it's on the opposite side of the street.

Kelly Moore: yeah and so that was where he had his first storefront was in there.

Beau Newsome: Oh OK.

Kelly Moore: OK, and you know sold appliances in TVs and finally got big enough to move downtown and I was I wasn't working for him after that I worked for him for a couple years.

Kelly Moore: uh huh but.

Kelly Moore: Anyway, he's he started it was back when the laser discs came out.

Beau Newsome: Oh.

Kelly Moore: And he was selling the laser discs machines and the only way you get people to even buy a machine was to have some laser discs.

Kelly Moore: So that's that's how the means or the video stores started.

Kelly Moore: With first with laser discs.

Kelly Moore: And, of course, those went by the wayside, and it morphed into.

Kelly Moore: You know, there was the the war between the Betamax and the vcr.

Kelly Moore: vhs vhs rather and and.

Kelly Moore: He had both.

Kelly Moore: data and and vhs.

Beau Newsome: But it wasn't until he moved to the fifth street address that he started the video portion of it.

Kelly Moore: or what's he doing no.

Kelly Moore: No Well, no, I think it started down to when he was on the on the fifth street.

Kelly Moore: Okay, is when the timeline because when I was working for nobody to do a battle laisser.

Kelly Moore: You know, so this was many, many moons later that he after he moved to.

Beau Newsome: home video wasn't a thing.

Kelly Moore: No, not at all and in but there for a while he had both the beta and and the vc ours or vhs.

Beau Newsome: That was that of course beta went away and.

Beau Newsome: Then it was a fake fake.

Kelly Moore: Back though yeah it was a.

: debate.

Kelly Moore: and

Kelly Moore: Then there was the.

Kelly Moore: You know, then it morphed into DVDs.

Beau Newsome: right that was yeah then, when I was still working there but not managing yeah it was the.

Beau Newsome: BLU Ray versus hd.

Beau Newsome: it's like which ones.

Beau Newsome: Like which ones, do we order.

Kelly Moore: Yes, yeah yeah.

Beau Newsome: We chose BLU Ray and luckily it went that direction so.

Kelly Moore: Yes, yes.

Kelly Moore: So you know it's it's the ball, but that's that's how it got started.

Beau Newsome: yeah I think I mentioned it in my interview yeah that's what I had heard that that's why they started the video store.

Kelly Moore: But when.

Kelly Moore: When it when it moved out when when Kevin and was.

Kelly Moore: Have the.

Kelly Moore: wish I could remember her name.

: was on.

Kelly Moore: What did you say DAB dawn.

Kelly Moore: With on evening.

Kelly Moore: That was the manager of the video store.

Kelly Moore: Oh, not rhonda pardon.

Kelly Moore: Not rhonda rhonda.

Kelly Moore: yeah was run.

Beau Newsome: yeah because rhonda was my manager when I started working.

Kelly Moore: Yes, yeah because you were in you were working there and fifth street right.

Beau Newsome: yeah cuz when it was became the expanded store.

Beau Newsome: On fifth street.

Beau Newsome: And I worked there off and on for about seven years.

Beau Newsome: Okay, before I got the Managing position and stuff.

Kelly Moore: yeah well, they were having problems with around.

Beau Newsome: Yes, yeah.

Kelly Moore: And that's that have That was the reason why they decided to sell store is they didn't want to have to deal with trying to fire.

Beau Newsome: Just easier to just sell and liquidate.

Kelly Moore: Yes, yeah That was because they're nice guys there with the hassle, and so we inherited rhonda right and we were the ones that had to fire her which was not.

Kelly Moore: Not a pleasant experience.

Beau Newsome: yeah did you kind of was it right away or did you try out for a little.

Kelly Moore: dried I mean.

Kelly Moore: But it was obvious that things were not.

Kelly Moore: we're not not not working.

Kelly Moore: at all, and I mean she she was having some definite personal issues problems to of our of our own so.

Beau Newsome: yeah so basically that's kind of where I.

Kelly Moore: came up with that let's wait just a SEC here the pauses.

: sure.

Beau Newsome: Okay.

Beau Newsome: So we're back back recording.

Beau Newsome: So.

Beau Newsome: So you and so Gary got you guys you and deb and patent Neil.

Beau Newsome: You and debbie and patent Neil involved.

Beau Newsome: And you'll notice there's some transcripts down below to that's that's something that they wanted us to have on there are you getting that on your side.

Kelly Moore: No, I don't.

Kelly Moore: see it.

: Okay.

Beau Newsome: So.

Beau Newsome: So, then you guys had to find a manager.

Beau Newsome: Yes, and that's kind of where I.

Kelly Moore: came came in.

Kelly Moore: yeah yes.

: Did you.

Beau Newsome: Because I remember.

Beau Newsome: I think it was you debbie because every time I say deb on when the transcript but it's it's coming out something else, or I might just referred to as debbie.

Beau Newsome: yeah so sometimes it says dad sometimes it says DAB so but I think it was you and debbie and Gary came to the red door restaurant.

Beau Newsome: yeah when I was when I was waiting tables and kind of.

Beau Newsome: broach the subject of.

Beau Newsome: I would be interested or not in managing the video star.

Beau Newsome: Yes, yeah did you guys tossed around a few different names are you kind of.

Kelly Moore: No, not really I mean none of us wanted to run it none of us do movies, to do it, I mean running it it's the hobby there's not you know, take a DVD and you give a DVD out.

Kelly Moore: Here right that part's the mechanics of it is easy.

Kelly Moore: knowing what a movie is the whole.

Beau Newsome: Right, knowing the library and stuff like that yeah we.

Beau Newsome: I know that we took pride and like knowing movies and finding titles that people are looking for stuff like that.

Kelly Moore: Well yeah I mean that's what made our Jews really the.

Kelly Moore: What it what it was is like it was a it was a place to meet people there was always people that we'd meet.

Kelly Moore: You know, because you were in and you would get stuff you, you would rent movies, that you wouldn't normally rent because if you're on Amazon or netflix or whatever the stream of your choices.

Kelly Moore: it's not like browsing through a library.

Kelly Moore: Because I mean you know when you go to a library, you might be looking for one book.

Kelly Moore: But there's thousands of books that you can just walk by and go wow looks interesting, I wonder what that is.

Kelly Moore: yeah and you're not going to get that.

Kelly Moore: off of the net, because if you don't know type in the right search words or you get some.

Kelly Moore: bought that's thinking that Oh well, you must, like all of this, and so that's all it shows you it doesn't give you the chance to look at.

Kelly Moore: Foreign titles or new this or something like the criterion collection that was, I mean I didn't watch all of it, but they were they were the ultimate in artefill.

Beau Newsome: Yes.

Kelly Moore: You know so viewer into film, it was the thing to see your sure you know, definitely took more brains to the watch those than your typical shoot about.

Kelly Moore: Sure yeah.

Beau Newsome: It was the basically the exact opposite of our action section or something.

Kelly Moore: Yes, yeah.

Beau Newsome: But I always like to say that the criterion collection was our it was my favorite section, but it was our most expensive section, and it was our least rented.

Kelly Moore: Yes, but you know, we had movies that nobody else had do that was that was the other thing you know as far as as that goes.

Kelly Moore: yeah so.

Beau Newsome: What do you think separated Howard Hughes video.

Beau Newsome: Did you rented any other video stores in town.

Kelly Moore: There is a couple of times through you know, because we have, I think we have blockbuster did me.

Beau Newsome: It was a Hastings or by safeway was a video land and a movie gallery.

Kelly Moore: Okay yeah yeah.

Beau Newsome: But never a blockbuster there was one in pullman but not here.

Kelly Moore: yeah I mean video getting I never went out to Hastings.

Kelly Moore: Not not to read.

Kelly Moore: I mean there was times before we own Howard Hughes everyone's real downward years I mean I was.

Kelly Moore: Sad.

Kelly Moore: yeah but you know those stores just didn't have.

Kelly Moore: The selection you got got the whatever the the the 200 titles they had they were or maybe it was 400 titles and they had.

Kelly Moore: For that week or the that two weeks, and then they moved out in they were gone you couldn't get them anymore, they just didn't stop them, I think we had 30,000 titles when we.

Beau Newsome: yeah I want to say it was just over 30 I know that.

Beau Newsome: They probably accumulated more after I left I don't.

Beau Newsome: know the.

Beau Newsome: exact number I don't know what.

Kelly Moore: No, I don't I don't know either, but it was you know that's a lot of movies, to have at your disposal granted, you know, half of them were garbage.

Kelly Moore: sure you know, but people watched other.

Beau Newsome: People i'm good yeah.

Kelly Moore: That was.

Kelly Moore: That was that was Okay, but it's like you know the the I really enjoyed the the foreign films, even though a lot of times, yet watching with subtitles but it's like one of the one of the ones I always.

Kelly Moore: want to say it was Norwegian kitchen stories, did you ever.

Beau Newsome: Know yeah yeah I never watched it by I remember there's always one on my radar you know.

Kelly Moore: Well, it was it was a absolutely bizarre movie.

Beau Newsome: was a delta Belgian.

Kelly Moore: know it was Swedish you know, region or.

Kelly Moore: Okay, some some something on that order, and it was sort of a live anthropological study.

Kelly Moore: Where they stuck an observer on a high chair, so they were almost it ceiling level.

Kelly Moore: In these remote people's kitchens.

Kelly Moore: And they wrote down everything that they saw for weeks.

Kelly Moore: Really yeah it was I mean absolutely bizarre movie, but it was yeah.

Beau Newsome: yeah it was it was Norwegian and Swedish.

Beau Newsome: Yes, yeah that's cool yeah I remember just.

Beau Newsome: Other than criterion and cult classics was another favorite of mine and.

Beau Newsome: yeah critics choice, but.

Beau Newsome: perusing that video store or that foreign section was pretty cool.

Kelly Moore: there's a bunch of the Japanese ones that.

Beau Newsome: No, no yeah.

Kelly Moore: The noodle movie that was it that was a fun one.

Beau Newsome: Was that what it was called noodle movie.

Kelly Moore: or no that's what I call it, it had noodles in the.

Kelly Moore: In the in the title.

Kelly Moore: Okay, so.

Beau Newsome: yeah pretty amazing collection that was.

Beau Newsome: I think when we moved to the main street store.

Beau Newsome: You know we'll get into this a little bit later, but of why you had to move the store and but basically we had to put vhs in the back.

Beau Newsome: yep get them off the four, so to speak, and do DVDs and stack them sideways versus.

Beau Newsome: front, yes.

Kelly Moore: yeah because.

Beau Newsome: Otherwise we wouldn't have fit you.

Kelly Moore: know, there was no way we we we talked about how to do it, and all that good stuff for a lot.

Beau Newsome: But a long time.

Beau Newsome: yeah yeah I know Gary.

Beau Newsome: mentioned about turning them this way and stalking him, you know.

Beau Newsome: yeah up was an option to but yeah we just.

Kelly Moore: Did that was too hard and well all the fixtures to do that stuff or expansive.

Beau Newsome: Like that shelving or.

Kelly Moore: The shelving yeah.

Beau Newsome: yeah yeah I think didn't we inherit some of those from tr video or something like that.

Kelly Moore: We did I can't remember where we were always scrounging for stuff yeah, then I found those to.

Kelly Moore: The movie poster life found those in an antique store and Kurt elaine brown down.

Beau Newsome: That was those are cool basically it was a movie.

Beau Newsome: poster box that sat up in a window.

Beau Newsome: Correct and then have.

Kelly Moore: Had the the running lights that went around it.

Beau Newsome: Around and you could switch posters in and out that was cool that was.

Kelly Moore: That was it yeah they were they were the right size, I mean they were built for movie posters.

Beau Newsome: Right yeah so I guess that leads me to my next question old store versus the new store, so how long do you think you owned it.

Beau Newsome: First off we're kind of tossed around the idea that the video store when Howard started it was at six or eight.

Kelly Moore: gosh I would good.

Kelly Moore: Okay, good good tell you on on dates on that one.

Beau Newsome: yeah we're going to try and interview Howard, I think he's in his 90s now but.

Kelly Moore: He is.

Beau Newsome: it'd be nice to to get all of them and see what he has to say, but.

Beau Newsome: So how long did, would you say you were in the fifth street store before you moved.

Kelly Moore: Six months.

Kelly Moore: Okay, not we weren't we weren't in there very, very long, I mean the problem with that was it was.

Kelly Moore: You know I did I don't don't remember exact dates, but I know that there was another business that was in.

Kelly Moore: The 520 space 520 main space.

Kelly Moore: yeah, and so we still have the you know the video was going great over there, so might have been a year, I mean I really.

Kelly Moore: I really don't remember.

Kelly Moore: yeah but the business that was in there was gonna say restaurant I can't remember what was in there.

Beau Newsome: I think it was Lord tease and treasure.

Beau Newsome: And then, it was a tattoo parlor.

Kelly Moore: Yes.

Kelly Moore: Yes.

Beau Newsome: Because I think.

Kelly Moore: The lunar.

Beau Newsome: base, yes, that they had were.

Beau Newsome: Third, a little tattoo bays kind of thing.

Kelly Moore: Yes, that is, that is correct, as far as that goes, but laura's teasing treasures, the one that did the staggered floor.

Beau Newsome: Oh, they did okay.

Kelly Moore: Okay yeah I thought it was attached to know the tattoo boys didn't do that, they just took the existing tile but booths around it.

Beau Newsome: Okay okay.

Kelly Moore: is as far as that goes, but something happened with them and they had to vacate.

Beau Newsome: Right.

Kelly Moore: So had Gary at that point they didn't have a runner.

Kelly Moore: To fill the 520 place.

Kelly Moore: Right and that's when it's like well why are we paying rent over here when we could move the video store over there, so that was that that that was why it got moved.

Beau Newsome: Okay, that may not make sense, because they own the building and.

Kelly Moore: yeah yeah definitely made sense as far as that goes in the rent was definitely cheaper than what we're paying on fifth street and they were raising the Rand or something like that on fifth street to I don't remember who owns the building right but it just didn't make sense to.

Beau Newsome: to sell.

Kelly Moore: The House when you'd be paying it to yourself.

Beau Newsome: So I remember when I saw this the the main streets location that we're going to move into about had a heart attack because of the size difference like.

Kelly Moore: No, I.

Beau Newsome: mean, how are we going to do this space.

Kelly Moore: yeah how are you going to cram all of this into that because I remember you know it was like we're going to do with all the fixtures that we had that were in that store too.

Beau Newsome: yeah so would you say like key remember the square footage of the 520.

Beau Newsome: South main show Okay, but probably less than half of where it was on fifth street.

Kelly Moore: yeah probably a third.

Beau Newsome: Okay yeah.

Beau Newsome: yeah it's a it's a miracle on its own right that we were able to.

Kelly Moore: able to actually cram all that stuff in there.

Beau Newsome: yeah okay so that's kind of the ultimate reason why you why you decided to move over to mainstream, and I remember Gary put out a.

Beau Newsome: think he may put in the paper or something that you get free Rentals if you help us.

Beau Newsome: move yeah and we were basically throwing movie boxes into bags and putting.

Beau Newsome: The cart or the movie shelves on carts and rolling them down the.

Kelly Moore: REP yep we did it all by hand, we had a little parade going down the street yeah.

Beau Newsome: yeah I know a lot of people thought we're going out of business, or they didn't quite know what was going on.

: yeah.

Beau Newsome: Did you have to do a lot of work in the Main Street store to get ready for the move.

Kelly Moore: Oh, a certain amount.

Beau Newsome: But nothing sticks out that it was.

Beau Newsome: No huge.

Kelly Moore: You know old building.

Beau Newsome: yeah was a probably one of the 1900 bill.

Kelly Moore: yeah if not even in the 1890s.

Kelly Moore: I don't remember when it went up.

Beau Newsome: Right.

Beau Newsome: Because, and then you did a lot of the maintenance for the store.

Beau Newsome: Correct yeah so basically the whole building.

: Yes.

Beau Newsome: which was what two businesses upstairs and a couple apartments or something like that.

Kelly Moore: yeah there's four units upstairs so at one time there was it was for apartments but then there's that it was a.

Kelly Moore: Well pad had her business up there.

Kelly Moore: You know one end and a couple apartments and then the resume massage.

Beau Newsome: that's right.

: mom.

Beau Newsome: still lives all real really.

Kelly Moore: yeah yeah it is passed from from massage groups to massage groups over the years.

Beau Newsome: So, once you.

Beau Newsome: So, once the kind of we'll get into this a little bit later, but the main street co op.

Beau Newsome: Were you still kind of taking care of the building and stuff too.

Kelly Moore: Yes, still I got soul.

Kelly Moore: Okay, though I I did all.

Kelly Moore: The work on it after after Gary past.

: Okay.

Beau Newsome: And then it got sold solely to to path correct.

Kelly Moore: No, it was pat in gary's daughter that owned the building.

Beau Newsome: Okay okay.

Kelly Moore: Until pat finally sold it.

Beau Newsome: Right.

Beau Newsome: Recently, correct or within the couple years.

Kelly Moore: ago within a couple of years yeah.

Beau Newsome: Right okay yeah.

Beau Newsome: The.

Beau Newsome: Do you have any.

Beau Newsome: Good stories about that move or about the maintenance portion of the building or any.

Kelly Moore: I mean it was it was fun to get the move and get his gives us all crammed in there, but it was you know.

Kelly Moore: it's too bad you didn't buy that that boy.

Beau Newsome: thought about it.

Kelly Moore: Because it's not like we didn't try, we tried to sell it the boat.

Beau Newsome: Right.

Kelly Moore: yeah no that's really what it needed it needed somebody that was, I mean I didn't really have interest in movies, I just didn't want to see another business go out downtown that.

Kelly Moore: made it a fun place to be it was a great gathering place, you can.

Kelly Moore: You you'd run into people they hadn't seen in a while somebody was always asking you about a you know what do you watch it or.

Kelly Moore: You know, oh try this one yeah that was you don't get that off of a computer.

Kelly Moore: Right.

Kelly Moore: You know right as far as far as that goes, but.

Kelly Moore: yeah that was you know I didn't I didn't know enough about move is to run a business.

Beau Newsome: Right yeah I think.

Beau Newsome: Ben hardcastle work there for a long time.

Kelly Moore: yeah that's about a man Ben not though yeah.

Beau Newsome: yeah.

Beau Newsome: It would have been he thought about, because it would be have to be somebody to just buy it and run it and basically work there, as long as they could.

Beau Newsome: yeah, you know as many hours as you could tell you have to have another employee Come on, or something like that yeah but I don't know I thought about buying it too, I mean it was crossed my mind, you know be.

Beau Newsome: kind of fun to own a video store and just work there and.

Kelly Moore: yeah yeah.

Beau Newsome: But you know, unfortunately, you know we I guess that leads me to my next question is.

Beau Newsome: We kind of know why, but why do you think the video server struggling I mean, I think it just slowly got worse and worse every year.

Kelly Moore: Well, I mean it's it's it's a convenience thing I mean why don't we see seven eleven's anymore.

Beau Newsome: No all right.

Kelly Moore: I mean, people have just changed their habits, I mean every everybody nowadays they watch movies on their bloody phones and they're not looking for big screen even even rego movie theaters are really coming if they come back after this pandemic it'll be.

Kelly Moore: it'll be there's a there's a wells two chains on the on the coast in portland I was reading that they're not reopen they're just there's no they can't.

Kelly Moore: They can't pay the rent people don't go.

Kelly Moore: yeah I mean why yeah it's the big screen, but you know everybody's got seven foot TVs in their living rooms now so.

Kelly Moore: Right that's a pretty big screen you don't have to live in and they they always crank the sound so high.

Kelly Moore: So you're not here in somebody else.

: So.

Beau Newsome: yeah do you get that theater experience at home now to that.

Kelly Moore: Oh yeah I mean they've got this the speakers in the shaker you get a shaker chair now.

Kelly Moore: Like if you're in the lab.

Kelly Moore: yeah yeah so I mean it's it's that whole technology issue of.

Kelly Moore: You know I don't.

Kelly Moore: know there is a big difference between.

Kelly Moore: Real film and DVDs you know, to go to an actual real theater words you know 70 millimeter real film.

Kelly Moore: Right it's completely different than watching some digital but you can't find a theater that plays real film hardly any more, maybe you.

Kelly Moore: Know Paris or New York or.

Beau Newsome: I know quentin tarantino.

Beau Newsome: He owns a theater in La and he what he just plays don't.

Kelly Moore: Like he will that's it.

Kelly Moore: yeah he will you know you want to see a real film you go there.

Kelly Moore: Right no because there's no way on a DVD and going to link can were the you know it's DVD it's just on a bigger screen.

Kelly Moore: Look at you know you're not getting.

Kelly Moore: I don't care whether they got a BLU Ray or hd or any of that stuff it doesn't have the quality that you're going to get out of real film.

Kelly Moore: it's no different this reason why audio files you play real records because music is continuous it's not discrete chunks.

Kelly Moore: Right, so the sound on a DVD or a CD isn't have the same quality as a as a decent pressed LP grandmother's crappy lps out there, too, but.

Beau Newsome: Is that kind of the way it's produced sort of are just the way it.

Kelly Moore: Is the the LP.

Kelly Moore: yeah yo yeah for sure.

Kelly Moore: You know how how what what was the quality of how the master was cut because that's how they get pressed right yeah and if that isn't.

Kelly Moore: done very well well you're gonna.

Kelly Moore: You know, and the quality of the vine.

Kelly Moore: us really cheap vile you run your needle around it three or four times and it's or just.

Kelly Moore: Cuts all plastic.

Beau Newsome: Right right yeah they just kind of deteriorate.

Beau Newsome: yeah That was one thing we've talked about to on this is.

Beau Newsome: How easily pull out like vhs tapes were kind of indestructible.

Beau Newsome: yep you could spy some you could take them apart.

Kelly Moore: You get the exam.

Beau Newsome: You could borrow parts from an old vhs kind of like car parts.

Beau Newsome: yep and DVDs if they get scratched too much or.

Kelly Moore: their toes or if they said to law.

Kelly Moore: The give moisture into.

Kelly Moore: And D laminate.

Beau Newsome: Okay.

Kelly Moore: So I mean it's the it all boils down to the quality of the plastic because basically all the DVD CD they're all the same technology.

Kelly Moore: piece of plastic piece of plastic in some metal media in between and they're glued together, and then the laser goes in and punches holes and.

Beau Newsome: um yes, one of the key things that you guys decided to purchase was that DVD.

Beau Newsome: surface resurfacing polisher.

: yeah.

Beau Newsome: That was a lifesaver for us that.

Kelly Moore: yeah cuz I mean you know you scratch the plastic well, you can rub it off to.

Beau Newsome: To to a point yeah you can only you can only clean a DVD so many times before it just.

Kelly Moore: Where you were.

Beau Newsome: Little takes off all the information yeah.

: yeah.

Beau Newsome: But it we use it a lot and it got us and we just sometimes we would just charge people.

Kelly Moore: yeah.

Beau Newsome: You know people just wanted their DVD or CD clean, so we would charge them three or four or five bucks and I remember how much it well.

Kelly Moore: yeah but good versus spin and why are you can't you can't replace it, that mean we had DVDs you couldn't get any more, you know they're out of print throughout a print like an hour print book, I mean they're out of breath we don't like it anymore you're.

Beau Newsome: not getting it.

: yeah.

Beau Newsome: So.

Beau Newsome: Was the.

Beau Newsome: Like one of the questions I have is what were the challenges early on and the challenges, towards the end where you.

Beau Newsome: Was it stressful owning a video store or was a.

Kelly Moore: I wouldn't say was stressful I mean you know, there was you know deb had the had the most.

Kelly Moore: Stress because she was dealing with the books, all the time and.

Beau Newsome: yeah.

Kelly Moore: yeah you know, the only other was that you know, mostly it fell on your shoulders, as far as the personnel issues, but that was always.

Kelly Moore: The thing to try to you know balance.

Kelly Moore: You know, as far as that goes, but no it wasn't you know it was always worrying to watch the the numbers go down.

Beau Newsome: yeah.

Kelly Moore: You know, as far as the revenue numbers, I mean it wasn't like we didn't keep buying dials because you had to because people weren't going to come in for the gold stuff all the time.

Kelly Moore: Right so.

Beau Newsome: You had to walk that fine line of new releases versus old old titles basic.

Kelly Moore: yeah yeah during during training keep a balance in there, and you know.

Kelly Moore: I think, according to Dev if I remember correctly, it only it we only made money off of a little bit of profit off of the first two years of operation yeah and after that it was just.

Kelly Moore: Maintaining.

Kelly Moore: yeah you know, and if it broke even you know gave you a wage and a bunch of other people a wage and that mean we weren't looking at it to get rich on we just wanted to keep the collection together.

Beau Newsome: yeah.

Beau Newsome: yeah it was.

Beau Newsome: yeah there was a head that's kind of slow decline and I, and I think the move.

Beau Newsome: A lot of people just thought we went out of this.

Beau Newsome: They didn't even know we moved over to the main street address.

Kelly Moore: Well, we probably should have done better advertising as far as as as that went so that that was a probably a failure on our part, but.

Beau Newsome: yeah.

Kelly Moore: You know, there we had.

Kelly Moore: We ads in the paper we add ads in there are good not we had news releases and press releases and all that other good stuff.

Beau Newsome: So, and we had a.

Beau Newsome: I don't know how long after we opened, it was, we had a grand opening and we had I think Z fun was there.

Kelly Moore: yeah yeah.

Beau Newsome: One of the radio stations.

: yeah.

Kelly Moore: So we did.

Kelly Moore: We did we it's not like we didn't promote it, but.

Kelly Moore: You know, trying to get this day I mean it was just the fact that people were it was too easy for them to download it on their computer.

Beau Newsome: yeah yeah it was definitely that whole wave of.

Beau Newsome: yeah being able to download and netflix.

Beau Newsome: On.

Beau Newsome: The whole delivery.

Beau Newsome: yeah here to your House type of thing which I know we tossed around that idea, a couple times.

Kelly Moore: yeah.

Beau Newsome: Like maybe setting up.

Beau Newsome: A time to that people can place their order in between like maybe three o'clock and six o'clock we go deliver.

Kelly Moore: But for.

Beau Newsome: the logistics of that was kinda yeah yeah but.

Beau Newsome: Who who picked the green paint out front and.

Kelly Moore: The colors levers path.

Beau Newsome: Okay, that was bad yeah.

Kelly Moore: She picked all the colors.

Beau Newsome: Okay, it wasn't because I don't think it was that color when it was the tattoo shop, but I think that was.

Kelly Moore: No, it was all the colors in the building repair.

Beau Newsome: Okay yeah because we kind of adopted that on all of our the the orange movie camera.

Beau Newsome: Yes, on all of our.

Beau Newsome: Promotional stuff.

Beau Newsome: For coupons or whatever else it's yeah yeah the camera you guys picked out in the font I really liked that I thought that was kind of a classy look.

Beau Newsome: So the.

Beau Newsome: kind of.

Beau Newsome: So the way, like kind of went over like what ultimately ended the business.

Beau Newsome: Just kind of did a slow slow decline.

Kelly Moore: yeah.

Kelly Moore: I know yeah and it was like.

Kelly Moore: You know, part of part of it was we probably could have kept to go on for a while longer, but I had.

Kelly Moore: Just graduated more or less and didn't didn't know for sure whether or not.

Kelly Moore: I mean there was no way to run that business Apps and T.

Kelly Moore: Right to not be in town and at that point in time we didn't know whether I was going to have to move for.

Beau Newsome: Oh right yeah.

Beau Newsome: Did you do so if it would save the video store today was still making money do you Thank you deb would still own it.

Beau Newsome: Or do you think you would have probably.

Beau Newsome: gotten out of it at some point.

Kelly Moore: No as long if if if it would been maintaining and was Okay, and all that good stuff we'd still on and.

Kelly Moore: are still be trying to sell it to somebody like you, that would actually that's really what it it needed was somebody that had a little bit more of a vested interest in in getting it out there, we were we were busy doing you know, we had other other jobs to do so.

Kelly Moore: You know, good couldn't be sitting there trying to figure out how to do out how to get the students back how to do this, that the other as far as getting people in.

Kelly Moore: Again, it was there was a reasonably low loyal.

Kelly Moore: Following but.

Kelly Moore: You know if if if somebody would have.

Kelly Moore: gotten it a little bit sooner and really.

Kelly Moore: had more of a vested interest in it.

Kelly Moore: You know my problem is I.

Kelly Moore: don't know movie.

Kelly Moore: Right, so I mean it's really hard to that you know to be the guy behind the counter when everybody's asking you stuff and I go all.

Beau Newsome: Right yeah okay.

Kelly Moore: yeah versus somebody like you or band, who could rattle off blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah yeah Okay, then you know.

Beau Newsome: We were we were the algorithm.

Kelly Moore: Yes.

Beau Newsome: We would yes Oh well, if you like, that movie maybe you would like this movie you know.

Beau Newsome: kinda kinda.

Kelly Moore: yeah whereas I don't have a clue.

Beau Newsome: Right um I remember used to kind of like what we are watching in the store and stuff too like.

Beau Newsome: Oh, and that old console TV that you got.

Kelly Moore: yeah.

Beau Newsome: That we had up in the front window.

Kelly Moore: yeah that works great for tell it died and I never got around to fixing it.

Beau Newsome: Right oh it did eventually die.

Beau Newsome: yeah I think it was after I had left.

: Yes.

Kelly Moore: yeah okay.

Beau Newsome: That was too bad I love the way black and white movies looked on that TV with the brick behind it.

Beau Newsome: yeah kind of the marquee lights and stuff like.

Kelly Moore: Really you're very.

Beau Newsome: yeah it was I loved playing black and white movies on that thing, but for some reason it was hard to get employees to put something in there, so a lot of times you try I drive by and it just be a.

Beau Newsome: boy, and you a menu screen or something like that.

Kelly Moore: yeah well that's yeah that that's part of it is not having.

Kelly Moore: Not having somebody 10 in the store that hard.

: Right.

Beau Newsome: Did you get so you guys got free Rentals.

Beau Newsome: Yes, so did your movie intake go up after you own the store.

Kelly Moore: Oh, it was a certain amount, but not that much.

Beau Newsome: Okay.

: You know.

Kelly Moore: We watch more foreign films.

Kelly Moore: You know, but the the occasional ones that came out that were you know new releases that we're we're fun.

: Right.

Kelly Moore: that's that's the only perk we got out of it.

Beau Newsome: Some people say that was a good Park, you know, to have that's why we had never had shortage of people interested in working there that's for sure.

Beau Newsome: yeah we never had to advertise to get.

Beau Newsome: Employees to apply.

Beau Newsome: We just had that in abundance.

Beau Newsome: So you kind of you know, I have some questions about the video store it looks like you've touched on most of them like.

Beau Newsome: How did you find I find out about the rental store and how often did you visit.

Beau Newsome: The unique things about Moscow and the video store it sounds like I mean you and dad are really into local business like.

Beau Newsome: There was something downtown I don't it's escaping me right now is we're all the local businesses kind of got together and tried to.

Kelly Moore: Do is buy local Moscow.

Beau Newsome: By local Moscow yeah okay it's still still an organization and we helped start that.

Kelly Moore: as well.

Beau Newsome: Oh, you adapt it or.

Beau Newsome: yeah okay good.

Kelly Moore: We was the first first first groups, it was more.

Kelly Moore: Oh.

Kelly Moore: Humans today everything.

Beau Newsome: yeah my blanking on her name I I know who you're talking about yeah she was.

Kelly Moore: She was very integral in in in getting it going.

Beau Newsome: Okay cool.

Beau Newsome: yeah that was that was kind of a neat thing.

Beau Newsome: Having I know we're gonna i'm gonna probably interviews Louise Todd who owns mikey's.

Beau Newsome: yeah because it was there, right across the street, she was really big and by a local Moscow.

Kelly Moore: yep yeah so between Louise and and.

Kelly Moore: Even it almost came out.

Beau Newsome: Almost at it yeah.

Beau Newsome: Yes, because I was always you know because I was working for Howard Hughes at the time, or no, I was working at the red door, so I wasn't an hour to us when you guys purchased the store.

Beau Newsome: yeah but i'm glad it went.

Beau Newsome: You know, to people like you, that we're.

Beau Newsome: All about local you know, save the video store save a local.

Kelly Moore: yeah I mean there's there's only a few of their and their their.

Kelly Moore: Think there's one band a block the last blockbusters in the band.

Kelly Moore: Is a great following because it's.

Kelly Moore: it's the only one around.

Kelly Moore: i'd be right seriously you can't get 30,000 titles on netflix you can't get it on Amazon you can't.

Kelly Moore: Read oh yeah well if you buy into 15 different ones, but you still not going to get the criteria.

Beau Newsome: Right.

Kelly Moore: You know and there's a lot of the foreign films you ain't going to get those I mean at all.

Beau Newsome: yeah that library was pretty impressive towards the end.

Kelly Moore: It was yeah.

Beau Newsome: yeah that was and you gotta wonder if, like like the kid we tried to straddle that line of new releases.

Beau Newsome: A piece to the masses kind of a thing and.

Kelly Moore: In the end, the end the classics that we could get our hands on.

Kelly Moore: Right nima.

Beau Newsome: yeah.

Beau Newsome: So that's you know deb did the books and she left and she let me.

Beau Newsome: Keep buying titles and if she wasn't telling me to stop buying titles, I was gonna keep buying them so um.

Kelly Moore: yeah well, I mean.

Kelly Moore: That was That was the point of it.

Kelly Moore: Right so.

Beau Newsome: But.

Beau Newsome: well.

Beau Newsome: So, as far as the co op did you were you Dev involved in the Main Street co op portion of it.

Kelly Moore: somewhat at the beginning of it, I mean we bought our memberships in it, and all that good stuff but I mean we were part of the people that.

Kelly Moore: That that's where we met monique in in in she was more or less the ramrod on getting the Co op going.

Beau Newsome: yeah.

Kelly Moore: We were we were part of the initial.

Kelly Moore: bit of it.

Beau Newsome: Right Okay, and then so when.

Beau Newsome: So when it became kind of mainstream video co op and they change the logo and all that stuff yeah as we're really a part of it at that point.

Kelly Moore: No, we weren't you know because it at that point, it was literally sold to.

Kelly Moore: The main street video co op.

Kelly Moore: Okay, and this is how that how that worked.

: Right.

Beau Newsome: yeah.

Beau Newsome: yeah That was a neat thing to you kind of wish that you know I.

Kelly Moore: could have kept it together.

Beau Newsome: yeah you gotta wonder if you know, like you, don't know what you got till it's gone kind of a thing, but.

Kelly Moore: Definitely that.

Kelly Moore: But it's hard you know it's.

Kelly Moore: it's hard to have again it's back to there wasn't one person running in that had a vested interest in making sure it kept going.

Kelly Moore: Right, you know.

Kelly Moore: To go have a Board of Governors, and it was like.

Kelly Moore: You know there wasn't any one one person to to really say this is mine i'm going to make it happen.

Beau Newsome: Right right yeah like yeah cuz even when.

Beau Newsome: The incarnation of you guys buying it, it was a you know it's five people and and it was.

Kelly Moore: kind of always all I needed was like we didn't want it to go away.

Kelly Moore: But we couldn't run it that's why we came to you, I mean it was like Okay, now we got this now, where are we going to.

Kelly Moore: me it's like I wasn't in a position to run the video store neither was deb no none, none of us were we just be you know our our only impetus was the fact that we did want to see it go away right, because it would it back then.

Beau Newsome: What if.

Kelly Moore: They would have just said right there.

Kelly Moore: They would have taken their loss and said hey there were 50 cents apiece in pack them all up and somebody would have bought all them 50 cents apiece.

Beau Newsome: right which is kind of what happened anyways.

Kelly Moore: Yes, it is.

: yeah.

Beau Newsome: we're so Do you remember kind of when you learn the video store was closing did you like, where were you and.

Beau Newsome: Do you remember, like how did you hear.

Kelly Moore: That was a mikey's.

Kelly Moore: that's when that's when it was Gary that found out about.

Beau Newsome: Oh.

Beau Newsome: Okay, and then what about the like.

Beau Newsome: During the pandemic when it shut down that you.

Beau Newsome: And was going out of business for good, did you.

Beau Newsome: How did you hear about that.

Kelly Moore: Oh just word of mouth or the advertising, I know, but by that time I mean we went in and God stuff but we weren't that.

Kelly Moore: We had lots of other stuff going on, so.

Beau Newsome: yeah and you guys weren't really a part of.

Kelly Moore: What we were on the board or anything like that we were Members but we weren't.

Kelly Moore: We weren't involved in any of the.

Beau Newsome: or were you contacted about anything in the store.

Beau Newsome: nope or anything like that, because you guys are pretty much bought out or.

Beau Newsome: I don't know if it was if it was bought out or what.

Beau Newsome: yeah okay.

Beau Newsome: yeah.

Beau Newsome: What would you say you learned anything from owning a video store, as long as you did, how many, so I think I worked for you guys for seven years.

Beau Newsome: gosh do you okay Do you remember the date that you.

: purchased.

Kelly Moore: deb deb could.

Kelly Moore: I could.

Beau Newsome: I was thinking around 2002 maybe three.

Kelly Moore: Four be i'd been.

Beau Newsome: No cuz.

Kelly Moore: We have we have rhonda for a while.

Kelly Moore: Like a couple of years, or something like that.

Kelly Moore: But I don't remember.

Beau Newsome: Because I remember just leaving in 2014 So if you that would be to around 2007 if I.

Beau Newsome: If i'm.

Kelly Moore: Any was like 12 years it was 10 or 12 years that we had it.

: Okay.

Beau Newsome: wow time flies.

Kelly Moore: yeah it does, it was like booth and you know it was just one of those things, it was we always thought the video store be there.

: Right.

Beau Newsome: yeah Unfortunately, you know.

Beau Newsome: People would always ask me, I still say yeah manager video store and they're like this was even back in.

Beau Newsome: 0809 there's still a video store for us yeah.

Kelly Moore: Well, it is sort of what killed, it was was that that added to.

: huh.

Beau Newsome: yeah.

Beau Newsome: So.

Beau Newsome: So kind of our worst fears was the the collection got dismantled.

Beau Newsome: Does not is not much did you kind of did you know it was happening at the time or.

Kelly Moore: Did you find out leaders just heard that that's that's what well, we heard that it was going to begin worthy and we thought oh great you know at least it'll stay together, and then it was like oh no it's not they're just selling.

Beau Newsome: Right.

Kelly Moore: And we were bummed about that.

: sure.

Beau Newsome: As we all were but i'm still i'm still holding out hope that the criterion collection is still intact, but.

Kelly Moore: It would be nice but.

Beau Newsome: we'll we'll see we'll find out.

Beau Newsome: um would you say there's a happiest memory, you have of owning the video star.

Kelly Moore: Oh gosh.

Kelly Moore: I don't know it was fun, I mean there was just.

Kelly Moore: It was just being in there watching people.

Kelly Moore: buy movies see see see what they were doing.

Kelly Moore: I mean, I was you know there's a lot of times I recommended movies to people so so I tried this with try that you know and do complete strangers.

Beau Newsome: That people kind of know you.

Kelly Moore: And then, as.

Kelly Moore: You that we own the video store.

Beau Newsome: Okay.

Kelly Moore: That wasn't widow, I mean it was it we were in there, they didn't know we were.

Kelly Moore: The body we're just another customer rent movies.

Beau Newsome: Right okay yeah.

Beau Newsome: Ben and I got the video guys a lot.

Beau Newsome: People look at us to be like, how do I, why do I know you.

Beau Newsome: already use video the MIC that's it.

Kelly Moore: that's it.

Kelly Moore: You know.

Beau Newsome: Any like I was asked a question to have what's if there's any memorable stories that you had about anything happening at the video store I didn't really have.

Beau Newsome: Anything that stood out.

Kelly Moore: No, I don't either other than it was it was just.

Kelly Moore: As deb put it with it was great because it was a fun place to be.

Beau Newsome: Right.

Kelly Moore: I mean it wasn't it wasn't like going into a hardware store where something broke and you're trying to find peace to fix it.

Kelly Moore: or.

Kelly Moore: yeah I got it I gotta go to the grocery store you was you went to the video store, because it was fun right.

Beau Newsome: um yeah.

Beau Newsome: And we yeah we used to love playing movies in there and I know you guys will always comment on stuff that we would play and.

Kelly Moore: yeah yeah.

Beau Newsome: For wasn't too, too, are rated or something.

Kelly Moore: Like yeah.

Kelly Moore: But.

Beau Newsome: We had to please ourselves.

Kelly Moore: Yes, yes yeah.

Beau Newsome: So we kind of accumulated a list of people to talk to.

Beau Newsome: Is there anybody that that off the top of your head that you could recommend that we would interview.

Kelly Moore: You other than you know Howard, for the first part of it, but other than that you know gary's not around anymore.

Beau Newsome: And I.

Kelly Moore: don't know what did you talk to pat at all.

Beau Newsome: I think money.

Beau Newsome: yeah monique I think interviewed pat.

Beau Newsome: Just just recently yeah so.

Kelly Moore: So that would be you know, Neil didn't really have anything to do with it other he was married path.

: Right.

Beau Newsome: And they didn't live pat never lived in Moscow correct.

Kelly Moore: Oh no they used to live here.

Beau Newsome: Oh, they did.

Kelly Moore: yeah so pat had her business, she was a.

Kelly Moore: Ah.

Kelly Moore: Art therapy psychologist.

Beau Newsome: Okay.

Kelly Moore: we're psychiatry just I mean she's got a.

Kelly Moore: she's a doctor or not.

Kelly Moore: Oh, you ever use that.

Kelly Moore: title, but she was she did art therapy mostly with children mm hmm.

Kelly Moore: and

Kelly Moore: Neil used to be the dean of the law school.

Kelly Moore: Or you have I or just you by.

Beau Newsome: Oh wow okay.

Beau Newsome: So.

Beau Newsome: That the Dean pass or was a Neil.

Kelly Moore: Neil.

Beau Newsome: And he passed away when he was owner of the video store.

Kelly Moore: i'm not sure.

Beau Newsome: No okay.

Kelly Moore: Well, no, it has the past I because I haven't heard.

Beau Newsome: I don't know either I.

Kelly Moore: Like I do know that he's been ill.

Beau Newsome: Okay Okay, then then i'm thinking of somebody completely different than so yeah I thought he passed but.

Kelly Moore: No, not not, not that I know of you.

Kelly Moore: know he has cancer, but we're we're anymore nowadays that doesn't necessarily mean anything other.

Kelly Moore: than is he he's ill.

Beau Newsome: Okay okay cuz yeah I just never dealt with Neil because.

Kelly Moore: He didn't you know it was.

Kelly Moore: It was it was pads deal as far as the building and all that stuff she handle all of that.

Beau Newsome: yeah and seems like she had a.

Beau Newsome: She wanted it to survive to, I think.

Kelly Moore: yeah.

Beau Newsome: She probably not only the local thing, but the fact that it was a a unique video store and stuff.

Kelly Moore: yeah it was the art art part of it.

Beau Newsome: mm hmm yeah we used to.

Beau Newsome: take part in art walk a lot too.

Beau Newsome: Yes, that was always really cool so.

Beau Newsome: Did Pat, but when pat own the store she wasn't living in Moscow right.

Kelly Moore: No, they lived in Sam.

Beau Newsome: Okay that's right yeah she would just I would just see her from time to time, but.

Beau Newsome: yeah work with Dev a lot on a day to day basis because of the books and stuff like that.

Beau Newsome: yeah and then.

Beau Newsome: See you come in to either rent movies or.

Beau Newsome: fix something in the mail.

Kelly Moore: Know majorly nobody can make something.

Beau Newsome: yeah no major catastrophes that you can remember in that building.

Kelly Moore: Well, the roof leaked enough times that it was painted the bud leading crashed more than once and.

Beau Newsome: yeah.

Beau Newsome: So we're pretty close to wrapping it up, but one thing that came to mind is.

Beau Newsome: The computer system.

Beau Newsome: So we were working with a DAS system.

Beau Newsome: Yes, and you were kind of working trying to maybe figure something else out correct.

Kelly Moore: yeah but.

Kelly Moore: You know, eventually got ported over, but it was basically.

Kelly Moore: manual landry.

Beau Newsome: Oh.

Kelly Moore: OK, that when they got switched to the new database.

Beau Newsome: Where you still owner when they switched over it was a windows based.

Kelly Moore: yeah yeah yeah.

Beau Newsome: And, and that was a manual transfer of data.

Kelly Moore: We got some other but we didn't get all of it, so there was a lot of manual.

Kelly Moore: wow know somebody read the blue one what the movie and you go well standard system you'd have to take the movie and.

Kelly Moore: go from there.

Beau Newsome: Oh wow geez what a what a mess.

Kelly Moore: yeah oh it's amazing we lent that software, I mean.

Kelly Moore: So we had the store for 10 or 12 years and, and it was like right after we bought it they discontinued the software.

Kelly Moore: Right Oh, it was like oh man yeah.

Beau Newsome: It was a it was a pretty user friendly software, I mean.

Beau Newsome: yeah it could do all sorts of stuff for us and printouts and what whatnot but kept notes kept records of everybody what they rented and stuff like.

Kelly Moore: yeah yeah.

Beau Newsome: It just wasn't supported correct.

Kelly Moore: No, and finally, we had enough glitches in it that.

Kelly Moore: It had the just good good maintain.

Beau Newsome: yeah yeah That was one thing that kept me up at night, was the crashing it always crashed.

Beau Newsome: yeah just had to make sure we backed it up and we.

Beau Newsome: yep if we're lucky we only lose 24 hours a day.

Kelly Moore: Not three weeks.

Kelly Moore: In good really yes.

Beau Newsome: yeah I think in my tenure there, it was, I think the longest we went was maybe three days without a computer just doing manual invoices and then.

Beau Newsome: Yes, what's the system came back up we.

Beau Newsome: enter them all in the system.

Beau Newsome: yeah the duck the days that we thought there that they were actually rented and yeah.

Kelly Moore: It was a real pain.

Beau Newsome: I don't miss that aspect of the job.

Beau Newsome: Now, dealing with that computer system.

Beau Newsome: But as far as the move it all day is 400 transferred over or not, as 500, but it was a Do you remember the name of it was a DAS system but.

Kelly Moore: yeah I don't.

Beau Newsome: yeah but it there was no problems from the get go after the move.

Kelly Moore: As far as I know, no.

Kelly Moore: Okay, no I wasn't I wasn't that involved with it just you know we got it we bought I did or.

Kelly Moore: Is is the pain to get it all in there right yeah.

Beau Newsome: Was there any talk about getting that online.

Kelly Moore: Oh, we talked about that a bunch, but it was just one of those things that you know, for us, we didn't keep we didn't keep the computers online because of the credit card info.

Beau Newsome: And just all the Info.

Kelly Moore: All the Info yeah so I mean we wanted.

Kelly Moore: It would have been nice to have been able to do something where you can order it online done whether the movie was in or out and all that good stuff but I mean nowadays.

Kelly Moore: it'd be easy to write a web server that that do all that stuff I mean right yeah get get your nine year old they could write it in this day and age, but back then, it was it was not an easy solution there just wasn't that type of code out there.

Beau Newsome: That probably wasn't cheap either I.

Kelly Moore: know it was really expensive yeah so yeah.

Beau Newsome: Do you think if the video store was.

Beau Newsome: Do you think they're like if I would have made it through the shutdown of the pandemic.

Beau Newsome: Do you think there's a.

Beau Newsome: year we get eventually would have just fizzled out or do you think it's still kind of stayed alive for a little bit.

Kelly Moore: Probably just fizzled out, I mean people are lazy.

Kelly Moore: know.

Beau Newsome: yeah.

Kelly Moore: you mean.

Kelly Moore: You stream, so it looks the same on your screen is, if you put the DVD sure yeah.

Beau Newsome: So yeah we can't couldn't compete with that.

: So.

Beau Newsome: But Okay, well, I think we've been about an hour.

Beau Newsome: Any closing remarks anything we didn't touch on that.

Kelly Moore: No just just take out that bit when I was stuck.

Kelly Moore: Yes, no names.

: Okay.

Beau Newsome: said dad does she want to say hi or now.

: I dad.

Beau Newsome: Well cool I really appreciate you doing this, this is they came to me with this and I was like yeah, of course.

Beau Newsome: we'll have to interview people and talk about the video star but.

Beau Newsome: You guys gave a valiant effort that's for sure.

Kelly Moore: Well, we dry.

: yeah.

Beau Newsome: Without a.

Beau Newsome: Doubt without me okay.

Beau Newsome: Okay.

Beau Newsome: well.

Beau Newsome: I think I think that's about it.

Kelly Moore: Let me.

Beau Newsome: have anything else you want.

Kelly Moore: To do your works going okay.

Beau Newsome: yeah yeah.

Beau Newsome: yeah let me i'll just stop recording here, if you want to hang tight.

Beau Newsome: But I just want to thank you again for doing.

Beau Newsome: doing the interview and we're hoping to get as many as we can, until the end of the Semester, I think.

Kelly Moore: yeah.

Beau Newsome: When we have, and then I think this might be available online I don't know if they're going to do it.

Beau Newsome: At the just at the University of iowa library, or what but.

Kelly Moore: What.

Beau Newsome: i'll keep i'll keep you informed and.

Kelly Moore: yeah but definitely make sure that the.

Kelly Moore: Yes, yeah the other bits yeah that would not be cool.

Beau Newsome: No, no yeah well, I think we have the ability to to edit stuff out so but okay well i'm gonna and recording thanks again Kelly appreciate.

Beau Newsome: It glad deb got a little cameo.

Beau Newsome: But i'll just stop recording here thanks a lot.

Kelly Moore: you're welcome.