Video Accents

Now defunct, somewhat haphazardly run, family-owned chain (the Burton's) of stores that was one of the pioneering video-rental businesses in Sonoma County in the early to mid-1980's. The emergence of the big national rental chains (Blockbuster and others) and poor management practices killed many of the intially successful independant local chains in the early 1990's.
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