The last Blockbuster Video in Texas has closed Franchise-owned Blockbuster sites were keeping the brand alive.

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This past week the last standing Blockbuster Video in Texas closed...

This past week, the last standing Blockbuster Video in Texas closed for good after a heavily-attended liquidation sale.

The Edinburg, Texas store was a media sensation for years as one of the last places where film fans could enjoy the Blockbuster brand, which dominated the home video market for years.

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The store was owned by licensee Alan Payne. According to ValleyCentral.com, he'd owned the store since 2006. Payne still owns six Blockbuster stores in Alaska.

"If you would've come into this store on a Friday night 15 years ago, you would've seen this many people in here and they would've been running, talking movies and having fun," Payne told the local outlet. "But, the last several years, everybody knows the business has been in decline, to the point that this was the last store left in the entire state."

Chron.com previously wrote about the Blockbuster in Edinburg in 2016.

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There is a listing of the last remaining stores across the country, including the six in Alaska and two more in Oregon. Road trip, anyone?

Renting films is largely a thing of the past as streaming services have taken hold of the market. Kiosks like Redbox still have a hold on a portion of the movie-loving population though in front of grocery and drug stores.

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Corporate-owned Blockbuster Video storefronts were shuttered in early 2014. The company was taken over by Dish Network Corp. in 2011. Blockbuster tried to emulate Netflix with its own DVD-by-mail, but it was hard to adapt when it had so many leases on stores that were suffering from sharply declining sales.

Blockbuster opened its first store in Dallas in 1985, and at its peak had more than 9,000 locations.

Craig Hlavaty is a reporter for Chron.com and HoustonChronicle.com. He's an intolerable native Texan with too much ink in his skin and too much brisket stuck in his teeth.