Vintage Hand-Drawn VHS Labels
This person posted a bunch of images of their dad’s old VHS tapes with lovingly hand-drawn labels indicating their contents. Kids, this is what people did before the internet.
Also, it’s weird/interesting that CDs, DVDs, Blu-ray, LaserDisc, cassettes, MiniDisc, and 8-tracks are all played on devices named for the media (e.g. CD player) but VHS tapes are played on VCRs. We could have easily started calling them “VCR tapes” or “VHS players” en masse, but we mostly collectively stuck to the “correct” terminology. (thx, david)
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It's not hand drawn, but I came across an old VHS tape of mine that was one of my favorites. What stunned me, though, was the amount it could hold! OK, probably wasn't great quality but check this out, it had:
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How was I able to fit that much on there‽
TIL that some VHS tapes could hold up to 12 hours of video.
David Friedman shared a couple of the dry erase murals he drew for his local video store in high school.
Funnily enough, I heard someone complain recently that younger people do call them “VHS players.”
If you had a VHS and a Beta machine, you'd distinguish them by the type of media. But since battle took a few years to play out, we got used to calling them the generic VCR.
Love this! Omigosh I did this same thing back in the late 80's and early 90's. We were lucky enough to have HBO, but my mom didn't like renting movies from the video store (Home Video), so I would record them off HBO and make my own covers and end stickers! I vividly remember copying "Beetlejuice" using crayons and colored pencils. I think I also did "Ghostbusters" and "Pee Wee's Big Adventure".
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