{"id":92534,"date":"2025-07-25T22:48:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T22:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/92534\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T22:48:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T22:48:12","slug":"jacksonville-man-turns-front-yard-into-tiny-neighborhood-blockbuster-shelf-for-free-movies-action-news-jax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/92534\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville man turns front yard into tiny neighborhood \u201cBlockbuster\u201d shelf for free movies \u2013 Action News Jax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 You may see tiny libraries in your neighborhood or nearby park to donate or pick up books for free, but Aaron Bobby wanted to take that idea in a different direction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">He isn\u2019t too much of a bookworm, so he said, Why not do it with movies?<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">\u201cAlways been a big fan of the little free libraries,\u201d Bobby said, \u201cso I was seeing this idea online and I said, I\u2019m absolutely doing that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">Bobby recently finished building a small nook on the light post in the front yard of his Murray Hill home that he\u2019s turned into a free pick-up and drop-off shelf for movies, even painting it blue and yellow with \u201cBlockbuster\u201d above the door.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/https:\/\/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com\/cmg\/R47SXLQMFFESVJWLF7DU4TGMQY.png\" width=\"1440\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ImageMetadata__MetadataParagraph-sc-1htor29-0 jibCgM image-metadata\">&#8220;Blockbuster&#8221; neighborhood shelf <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\"><b>[DOWNLOAD: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/mobile-apps\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/b><\/a><b>]<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">The post he made online showing off his shelf got more than 2,000 reactions, hundreds of shares, and more than a hundred comments. He tells Action News Jax his makeshift Blockbuster has become busy ever since.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">\u201cEvery day I\u2019m coming in here and there\u2019s a lot of stuff taken out, there\u2019s a lot of stuff put in,\u201d said Bobby.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">Bobby said he spent nine months in the last year since moving to Murray Hill building a game room inside his home, filled with everything from magazines to action figures to VHS tapes and CD collections, some of which he\u2019s had his whole life. The free movie library idea, for Bobby, is his way of sharing his stash with the street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s really sad that you can\u2019t go into a movie rental store now. You can\u2019t go and just browse through and just find a movie that you maybe don\u2019t know or whatever,\u201d Bobby said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">He tells Action News Jax he\u2019s hoping to make more of the tiny movie libraries to install in other places around Murray Hill, but has a goal of, eventually, opening a video rental store in the neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">\u201cI want to kind of bring back just a little bit of nostalgia,\u201d said Bobby, \u201cit\u2019s really cool to see how many people are actually coming through and grabbing movies, it\u2019s awesome.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">The \u201cBlockbuster\u201d movie library can be found on Polaris Street. Bobby has already started a social media page to advertise the free movies, which can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/freeblockbusterjacksonville\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/live-breaking\/\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/live-breaking\/\" target=\"_blank\"><b>&gt;&gt;&gt; STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\"><b>[SIGN UP: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/membercenter.actionnewsjax.com\/newsletters\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/b><\/a><b>] <\/b><\/p>\n<p>Action News Jax Top Stories<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 You may see tiny libraries in your neighborhood or nearby park to donate or pick&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":92535,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5136],"tags":[1437,61246,12189,5229,61249,61251,3188,723,61245,7310,425,18078,61247,61248,50,394,61250,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-92534","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-aaron","9":"tag-aaron_bobby","10":"tag-action_news","11":"tag-america","12":"tag-bobby","13":"tag-finn_carlin","14":"tag-fl","15":"tag-florida","16":"tag-jackson_carlin","17":"tag-jacksonville","18":"tag-local","19":"tag-mtv","20":"tag-murray_hill","21":"tag-nerd","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-nintendo","24":"tag-polaris_street","25":"tag-united-states","26":"tag-united-states-of-america","27":"tag-unitedstates","28":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","29":"tag-us","30":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114916314679508213","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}