Remembering Bountiful's Top Hat Video, Utah's last video-rental store

The atmosphere that hangs over the last video-rental store in Utah as it prepares to close for the last time is, fittingly, heavy with nostalgia. A...

November 28, 2022
1:42 AM

The atmosphere that hangs over the last video-rental store in Utah as it prepares to close for the last time is, fittingly, heavy with nostalgia. And popcorn.The carpet is worn. Framed posters for classic movies, 'Casablanca' and 'Gone With the Wind,' hang on green painted walls. The shelves hold some 36,000 DVD and video game titles. The TVs, suspended above the shelves, are on this particular day playing 'Footloose' — a classic, in some people's eyes, that was shot in a Utah city about 40 miles south.

Palak Jayswal