When Vidiots, the long-running video store in Santa Monica that had become a cultural cornerstone for the city, closed in 2017, it seemed the end of an era. Now, on a corner in northeast Los Angeles, Vidiots is on the verge of a new beginning. Vidiots Foundation Executive Director Maggie Mackay, center, and founders Patty Polinger, left, and Cathy Tauber, right, are photographed inside the movie theater at the new location for Vidiots. And it seems like the perfect spot.”Pedestrians walk past the new location for Vidiots, the long-running video store set to reopen with a movie theater in Spring 2022 in Eagle Rock. It functioned as a movie theater until 2000, when it became home to a church.

Source: Los Angeles Times July 19, 2021 19:52 UTC