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VHS-2026-402

The Couch Potato Workout with Calvert DeForest (1989)
Calvert DeForest. You might know him as Larry “Bud” Melman from Late Night with David Letterman. In 1989,…
VHS-2026-128

Ohio State, 1979 World Series and 1985 Baseball TV Recordings
A Polaroid Supercolor T-120 labeled “NEVER ERASE” in someone’s handwriting. Six hours of EP mode sports recordings spanning…
VHS-2026-247

KAKE-TV Wichita Late 1991 Broadcast with RoboCop
A BASF Extra Quality T-120 with a sticky note label listing four titles: The Child, Steven, Hurricane Del,…
VHS-2026-458

David Blaine Drowned Alive Three-Peat Tape
A plain black VHS cassette. No label. No sleeve. No markings. The kind of tape that could be…
VHS-2026-334

Columbus TV August 1992 with Olympics, News and Sports
Six hours of Columbus, Ohio television from August 1992 on a single Veratron T-120 tape. Someone hit record…
VHS-2026-289

Water Treatment Program, an Amway Sales Training Tape
It Opens Like a PSA The spine label says “WATER TREATMENT PROGRAM.” Reasonable assumption: some industrial or municipal…
VHS-2026-011

Hot Rods From Hell at Englishtown Raceway Park
Quarter-Mile Match Racing at Englishtown VHS-2026-011 is a commercial release from Main Event Video — a small production…
VHS-2025-004

Everybody’s Baby: The Rescue of Jessica McClure on Cincinnati TV
Cincinnati, 1989 Technically this tape is labeled Everybody’s Baby: The Rescue of Jessica McClure. That’s a 1989 CBS…
VHS-2026-028

1998 Cleveland TV with Miss Ohio and Astros at Indians
Six Hours of 1998 Cleveland The post-it note on this Fuji PRO 120 said “Astros at Indians 6-27-1998.”…
VHS-2026-292

The Wild Bunch and Good Morning Vietnam on Sacramento TV
The Label Lied VHS-2026-292 showed up with a handwritten sleeve: “Alice in Wonderland / A Christmas Carol /…
VHS-2025-045

Festival of Flowers Souvenir Tape from the Biltmore Estate
Not every tape in the archive is six hours of tornado coverage or a missing military documentary. Sometimes…
VHS-2025-044

South Philly Italian Style, WHYY Documentary from 1997
Bobby Rydell hosts. WHYY production. 1997. “A Serenade to the Cultural Capital of Philadelphia’s Italian-American Community.” One hour.…
VHS-2026-259

Super Bowl XXIII Bengals vs 49ers WLWT Cincinnati Broadcast
Super Bowl XXIII. January 22, 1989. Joe Montana drives 92 yards in the final minutes and the Bengals…
VHS-2025-043

Travel the World: Italy, Venice and Florence by Questar
Questar Home Video. “As seen on Public Television.” Hosted by Gladys Rankin. Venice and Florence, two hours, original…
VHS-2026-083

Morning Exchange, Arsenio and AFV on Cleveland TV in 1990
Six hours of February 1990 Cleveland television, recorded by someone who had absolutely no respect for commercial breaks,…
VHS-2026-263

Storm of the Century ABC Broadcast from Columbus 1999
The tape sat in a mismatched MGM sleeve. Fuji T-120 HQ inside. Six hours in EP mode. The…
VHS-2026-312

History of the Hurricane Hunters 1942-1991 Military Documentary
On June 30, 1991, the U.S. Air Force deactivated the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron after nearly five decades…
VHS-2026-276

The Bus and Us: All About School Bus Safety
Six minutes and forty-two seconds. Ohio Department of Public Safety catalog number HSY #0077. A kid explains to…
VHS-2026-163

SNL Specials, Victory Garden and Motorweek from 1991-92 TV
A blank Fuji PRO from the Sunbury Collection. No label. No hint. Six hours of EP-mode tape with…
VHS-2026-060

April 1999 Cleveland TV with Tornado Coverage and Peter Jennings
April 9, 1999. 4:52 in the morning. An F4 tornado cuts through Blue Ash, Ohio with winds over…
VHS-2025-042

Touring Scotland with Gladys Rankin by Questar Home Video
Before YouTube travel vlogs, before streaming documentaries, before you could pull up a drone shot of Loch Lomond…
VHS-2025-041

Yankee Candle Retail Construction 1983 Internal Video
The label is handwritten. It reads “Used @ home store opening” and “Yankee Candle Retail Construction 1983-.” Thats…
VHS-2025-040

25 Years of Candlemaking from Candle Country Video
A tape about 25 years of making candles showed up in a plain white cardboard sleeve with no…
VHS-2025-039

The Standard Deviants: Twisted World of Trigonometry Part 2
The Standard Deviants had a whole system. Show up in a sketch, explain a concept, disappear. Repeat for…