Denver’s oldest video store has an official closing date following last month’s announcement it would shutter after 34 years in business.

Video One, which occupies a two-story house on the corner of East Sixth Avenue and Downing Street, will close for good on June 5, according to owner Jeff Hahn.

“It’s been a crazy few weeks here,” Hahn, 33, said over the phone this week. “We’ve had people waiting in line for 40 minutes to buy stuff.”

Hahn is looking to sell all of Video One’s remaining inventory of Blu-rays, DVDs, VHS cassettes and collectible movie memorabilia. Most items are going for $4 to $10.

“We’ve sold about 25 percent of our inventory but still have 16,000 to 17,000 items left,” Hahn said.

Video rental stores have all but vanished in recent years as self-serve kiosks from Redbox and streaming services such as Netflix, Amazon Prime and Hulu have lured consumers away from brick-and-mortar shops.

In Denver, only the LGBT-focused store Videotique remains.

“He’s been a good tenant throughout the years, but I can see how the whole industry is changing,” said Video One’s landlord Doug Gilmore, whose parents bought the building in the 1960s. “We’ve tried to help him and work with him when he had this slow months.”

To save his business, Hahn mounted a crowdfunding campaign in December that hoped to raise $50,000 to cover business expenses and the cost of transitioning Video One into a nonprofit video library.

Hahn said his monthly revenue often fell about $2,000 short of covering his $10,000 in monthly expenses, including rent and the cost of acquiring new films.

The crowdfunding campaign failed, raising less than $2,000 in the four months before it was suspended.

The publicity the store received from it also backfired, Hahn said. Websites and TV stations covering the crowdfunding unintentionally alerted other businesses looking to take Video One’s sought-after space.

“I did have a lot of pot people and retail and restaurants contact me after that,” said realtor James LeDuc of Never Stop Trying Inc., which has represented the property for the last five years.

However, Gilmore said he did not want to lease the space to a marijuana-centric business.

“They have no influence with us,” Gilmore said, noting that he’s in talks with a photography business to take over the building.

LeDuc and Gilmore emphasized they were not pushing Video One out. It was simply time for the business to end.

“We have so many treasures,” Video One’s Hahn said. “Right now I’m looking up at this ‘Die Hard’ poster on the wall and saying to it, ‘What are you still doing here?’ “

John Wenzel: 303-954-1642, jwenzel@denverpost.com or @johnwenzel