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Erol's Video Club: The DC Empire Before Blockbuster

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Erol Onaran arrives in the United States in 1960 with sixteen dollars in his pocket, and a quarter century later he runs the largest privately owned videocassette rental chain in the country. The chain is Erol’s Video Club. If you grew up in the DC area in the 1980s, the red-on-yellow Erol’s logo is wallpaper. It is on your parents’ membership card, on the bag the tapes come home in, on the awning of the storefront tucked into every other strip …
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ghostsofdc.org broke the news on Thursday, June 11, 2026.
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