Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2023
New JoCoHistory Blog Article
Lenexa’s Video Library: The Life and Times of Johnson County’s Largest Video Store
It all began in the early-to-mid 1980s. Holly DeNeff was in dental school, but had come to feel that dentistry wasn’t the right fit for her after all. She wanted to start her own business and started looking around for the right industry. At the time, there were two boom industries for budding entrepreneurs: tanning salons and video stores. Holly mulled both of them over, working briefly at both to learn the businesses from the ground up. She worked her way up to a store manager position at National Video (a national chain with several locations in the area) and thought that maybe she’d found her industry.