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Media Play
1992–2006
“Music, movies, and books under one roof.”
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The cavernous media superstore that put music, movies, books, magazines, and software all under one roof — long aisles of CDs and VHS/DVD, listening stations, and a scale that felt endless to a browsing teenager. Run by the same parent as Sam Goody and Suncoast, it was the everything-media destination before Amazon. It was shuttered along with its parent's mall chains in 2006.
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