Robin Moore’s Drive-In Video Centres to take Quills name

Press, 9 November 1984, Page 26

Robin Moore’s Drive-In Video Centres to take Quills name

When businesses change names or hands, it can sound very confusing, but when Robin Moore’s DriveIn Video Centre becomes Quills Drive-In Video Centre

at two places in Christchurch, it is hoped to make shopping for home video films all the more convenient. Coupled with the easy-

access’ drive-in feature, both the branches at Riccarton and on the corner of Colombo Street and Bealey Avenue offer hours of trade that should be suitable to

their customers. In a competitive business such as video-cassette lending, trading hours must be there to serve the public and not necessarily the management, says the manager of the Bealey Avenue branch, Mr Robin Moore.

Predicting that six out of 10 homes in New Zealand will have a.video recorder by the end of the year, Robin thinks it may be necessary to extend the already generous hours of opening to do justice to the expected demand for tapes.

The video centres are open seven days a week from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily, with late nights on Thursdays in Riccarton, and Fridays in Colombo Street. Particularly with daylight saving in force, Robin is seriously considering extending hours. The new Quills video library in Riccarton Road, which is on the same site as Quills Cut-Price Liquor, will be even more comfortable and spacious, with plush interior design and layout, than its counterpart in Colombo Street.

The interior, by Nova Interiors and Hall Shop Out-

fitters, will allow for easy, relaxed browsing, and the overall design was by the architects, Trengrove and Blunt, of Christchurch. The shelving and display design was Robin’s brainchild, and is the first of its kind in New Zealand.

Through months of hard experience in learning how best to display the overwhelming volume of titles available for hire, Robin came up with his design to make the copies both easy to put in place and yet simple for the borrowers to see at a glance. The opening today is a family celebration, as the entire concept of making video tapes and liquor available to the public from the same site is seen by management as of benefit to over-all family entertainment.

There will be free presents, such as sweets, balloons, drinks for children, and three video cassette recorders will be given away as the result of competitions on the day. Miss Canterbury will be present for part of the day, and a sausage-sizzling barbecue in the car park will provide for the inner man.