Career
Born in Chicago, the "teenage movie-theater usher" was able to collect film memorabilia. One day, a man bought movie posters from him to decorate his bar, and Brandt realized there was a market for memorabilia. In 1967, the couple opened a memorabilia and thrift store in North Hollywood.
In the late 1970s, it became the first to rent videos in Los Los Angeles
As of June 2011, it offers the largest selection of videos in one location in the country: 82,000 videos and 20,000 DVDs, including many that are rare and out of print. There are also about two million photographs and tens of thousands of movie posters.
lieutenant is considered such a mecca for film buffs that Ben Mankiewicz taped a segment about the store for Turner Classic Movies. Brandt suffered the first of a series of strokes and had to retire from the store.
He died at the age of 90 of colon cancer.
