At one time San Francisco’s Le Video could arguably be hailed as the world’s best video store. That argument — if anyone was still having it — ended last month, because Le Video went out of business.

Since 1980, having faced a number of relocations and industry trends (laserdiscs!), San Francisco's beloved video rental store Le Video has remained an impressive treasure trove for movie fans of ...

A month ago Le Video, the 34-year-old Sunset District institution with 100,000 titles, was preparing to close, joining nearly every other San Francisco video store in the death-by-digital graveyard.

Earlier this month, with the closing of San Francisco’s Le Video, it seemed that streaming had hammered another nail in the video store’s coffin. The Bay Area institution, founded in 1980, had amassed ...