Movie Island washes away

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The video store Movie Island (746 E. Holt Ave. at San Antonio) had a fabulous sign: a palm tree and the store’s name spelled out in letters in not one, not two, but three different colors. It was hokey and arresting all at once.

The store may date to the 1990s; it seems as though I’ve been admiring the sign the whole time I’ve lived here. The video holdout finally closed its doors recently.

Sensing the last time I drove past that Movie Island was deserted, I made a point of stopping by on Sunday to confirm that and to memorialize the sign. (I should have peered inside: What if there was an old hermit with a coconut?)

Movie Island had a grand total of one Yelp review, from 2012, but it was for five stars, better than most movies get. I suspect it would have been a great place to rent “Cast Away.”

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