Le Video, the Inner Sunset video rental store known for its eccentric organizational system, its wide selection of hard-to-find titles, and its smarty-pants staff, has announced that they expect to stop renting movies to customers by the end of April.

In a Facebook post from early Wednesday morning, the video store announced that (sic throughout) "We're still seeking a solution to keep the doors open but bottom line... we're and - so is now the owner, after 4.5 years of paying LV bills - broke!"

The anonymous staffer is still holding out hope, saying that "Who knows maybe enough of you will come... and give us a life extension or maybe some of you know of another business (cafe for example) who would like to expand on 9th Ave, love cinema and be a co-tenant of Le Video... them occupying most of the ground floor and us the mezzanine.... we could become a movie lounge type of private club... yes no more browsing all the shelves BUT all the collection still available and some fun things we have not been able to do being wall to wall filled with the display boxes... we can always dream or hope someone knows someone who knows someone."

That Facebook-posting staffer might be the only one who still believes, however, as he or she says that "One person is on tour with his band and another quit on Sunday with no notice... resulting in the need to adjust our closing time (man power + $$)."

Le Video was established in 1980, making it one of the Bay Area's longest-running video stores still in business.

Here's the entire announcement of their closure: