• Fiction
  • Poetry
  • Photos
  • Memoir

galoshes blog

Back to the

South Side

VCR Blues

Sometimes I wonder…

How many old VHS cassettes are rotting in seldom visited storage units, basements, garages…

How many millions of hours of video tape faithfully recorded, (mostly) by thousands of dads, meticulously labeled, stored, moved, stored again…

The newborns, the first communions, the bar mitzvahs…

The vacations, weddings, graduations, retirements…

The soccer games, swim meets…

The VCRs long gone. Broken. Tossed out. Dumped at Goodwill.

All that life captured on video tapes that no one will ever watch again, unless of course they were converted to DVD.

Oh wait…

Sometimes I wonder…

How many old DVDs are rotting in seldom visited…

GM

Posted July 23, 2025


Discover more from galoshes blog

Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.

Leave a Reply

Discover more from galoshes blog

Subscribe now to keep reading and get access to the full archive.

Continue reading