(23 Feb 2015, 11:14 pm)MarcTheA4 wrote I must admit I miss the HMVs everywhere...Hire My Videos...
My dad and me used to be bored out of our skulls when we went to the Metrocentre when my mam and sister wanted to spend like 10 hours shopping!
Sometimes we would see a movie, but mainly just hovered around places like Game and HMV.
His dad, according to my dad he called it by its full name - His Master's Voice.
I was pretty surprised to find out what it stood for, I was expecting something like Hire My Videos or something haha.
Sounds like the man my dad used to get pirate films from, Guy came round in his van on a Sunday and Wednesday, he would also loan us pirated games on casette for my amstrad computer...If I remember rightly he would also supply films to his loyalist customers that you would not find in any high street video store, videos that were never openly on display in the back of his Van
I think the name for HMV comes from the logo of the dog listening to a gramophone...I am still subject to an indefinate ban from every HMV shop in Britain for being a naughty boy about 5 years ago...Thats another story for another day
