A pair of VHS aficionados have transformed their basements into their own private mom-and-pop video rental shops — with thousands of tapes ... in Sant’Anselmo’s basement.

The obliteration of the videos was only acknowledged recently, though, after a private party filed an open records request seeking access to the basement tapes. A response from the county attorney ...

We’re standing in a blacklit basement, watching 1987’s “Rock ... pornography and direct-to-video tapes are not. Nowadays, archival groups like Vinegar Syndrome are well established.