He installed a saloon double-door for a small “adult” section. He had a friend design a special Mondo Video logo of a girl on a Pee Wee Herman-style scooter with VHS tapes on the back. He painstakingly created “distressed” brick walls going down the stairs and into the main room to evoke a Manhattan nook-style video store circa 1986. He tore up the basement carpets and spent weeks installing black-and-white tile flooring: “I love ‘50s diners and I think checkered floors are just more interesting and energetic than a blank floor.” Plus, he didn’t want it to resemble the more homogenized chain stores that came later. That was when the idea hit him to create his own video store. A film historian friend Mike Malloy in early 2018 was shooting a “talking head” bit for a Blu-ray extra video of the film “ Syndicate Sadists” from 1975 and needed someone to play a video store clerk behind him. “As much as I like that ambiance, it didn’t feel quite right,” he said. RODNEY RODNEY RODNEY when he purchased the home with the spacious basement, initially thought of creating a Disney-like haunted mansion. Anthony SantAnselmo's Woodstock basement features a room for sports-themed movies and other 1980s-era knick knacks.
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