More research questions

Boulder friends will warmly remember The Video Station, a fantastic video rental store that sadly closed a few years ago, having long outlived the local Blockbuster. Video Station was great! They had just about everything you could think of and were willing to try to find anything they didn't, like the long-belated DVD release of the Richard Attenborough Brighton Rock adaptation. The staff were knowledgeable and opinionated and wrote a cool members' newsletter recommending their favorite new and old releases. They got to know regular customers; one time my mom and I were checking out something slightly different than our usual fare and the clerk paused to say "are you aware that this is neither British nor a mystery?" It was so great and I miss it so much and I wish some kind of benevolent nonprofit could've absorbed it, as happened with Portland's beloved Movie Madness. 

 

One of the great things about Video Station were its nightly specials, certain categories of movie priced for broke students and teenagers depending on the day of the week, and that is what I am seeking information about today.

1. How cheap were they? $3? $1? $0.99?

2. What were the different nights? I think American Classics were Tuesdays but don't remember the rest.

3. What was the brand of vegan caramels you could buy at the checkout desk?

    3a. Are they still in business?

    3b. Can I order some?

These questions also rest atop a somewhat larger question, which is: how committed to accuracy in setting etc. should I be? I'm a real sucker for this level of detail in books I myself enjoy. Despite his habit of redacting parts of street names, one can stroll around St Petersburg following the routes described by Fyodor Dostoevsky in Crime and Punishment and still get a pretty good sense of how things would have appeared to him, although the people currently living in the apartment building where the old woman was murdered are pretty tired of it. Should this level of attention to detail extend to other things beyond geography? Does it matter if characters in a piece rent American Classic movies on a Friday for $2 instead of whatever was actually the case?

Much to think about.