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Serpentorslair Staff · July 13, 2026

Vacationing in the ’80s With My Parents

July 13, 2026July 13, 2026 Serpentorslair Staff1980s family vacations, 80s childhood memories, Adirondack Camping Village, Adirondack family vacation, camping with parents, Cape May family vacation, childhood road trips, childhood vacations in the 80s, Destro Designs, family camping memories, family vacation nostalgia, Great Escape theme park, growing up in the 1980s, Lake George memories, Lake George New York, Memorial Day weekend vacation, nostalgic family vacations, parents making sacrifices, vintage vacation memories, Viper Den Studios, Water Slide World0 comment

By Destro Designs and Viper Den Studios I am currently in Cape May with my wife, twin daughters, and my wife’s entire side of the family. It is an amazing trip that we take every year, and her family has been coming to this same place and staying in the same house for almost 40 years. The house is owned by a former teacher from my high school who also knows my father-in-law. It is a wild, small-world story for sure. Being surrounded by all the luxuries of modern life,…

Local VHS Rental Stores Were Our Pyramids

July 6, 2026July 6, 2026 Serpentorslair Staff1980s pop culture, 1980s video stores, 1990s pop culture, 1990s video rental stores, 80s childhood memories, 90s childhood memories, Bionic Commando NES, Blaster Master NES, Blockbuster nostalgia, childhood nostalgia, childhood video store memories, Destro Designs, G.I. Joe Movie VHS, Kay-Bee Toys nostalgia, Lansingburgh Video, local VHS rental stores, Metal Gear NES, mom and pop video stores, NES rental games, Nintendo rental games, old school movie rentals, retro pop culture, retro video store, The Money Pit VHS, VHS nostalgia, VHS rental store memories, VHS tapes, video rental history, Viper Den Studios1 Comment

By Destro Designs – Viper Den Studios Y’all have heard me wax poetic about the G.I. Joe Movie in multiple articles. But that video, as iconic as it is, came from a place that was as magical as the Pyramids of Egypt. Your local VHS rental store. Now, I am not talking about Blockbuster, which was an amazing place in its own right. But Blockbuster shared the limelight with affordable DVDs, flash drives for computers, and other blossoming tech of the early 2000s. I am talking about those places that…