Chet's Video Celebrating 20 Years in Marblehead
The owners of Chet's Video and Candy Shoppe on Essex Street will celebrate their 20th year in business later this month.
Many local businesses have come and gone since Chet's Video opened on Essex Street, and as the shoppe's owners prepare to celebrate their 20th year in business, they find themselves reflecting on two decades spent strengthening a relationship with the local community. When Shaquille O'Neal and Columbia Pictures crew members had lunch in owner Chet Strout's backyard during a break from Grown Ups 2 filming last summer, they kept talking about how cool it was that Marblehead still had its own "old-fashioned" video store. They, like other out-of-towners who first come across Chet's, probably found it hard to believe that a locally-owned DVD rental business could remain profitable in an age of boarded-up Blockbusters and OnDemand rentals. But …
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Amy Malkoff
4:09 pm on Friday, December 7, 2012
Chet's is a treasure. Congrats to them! more ›