Hey folks, it's James here, host and producer of this show, Dakota Spotlight.

I've got some exciting news to share with you.

I've just launched a brand new podcast called The Sleep Retreat.

The Sleep Retreat is designed to help you relax, unwind, and drift off to sleep.

With soothing soundscapes and calming original stories by yours truly, it's the perfect escape for a busy mind.

You can find The Sleep Retreat wherever you listen to podcasts or head over to the sleepretreatpodcast.com.

This is Dakota Spotlight Season 3, The House on Sweet and 7th, a production of Forum Communications.

I'm James Wollner. If you enjoy this podcast, be sure to check out the additional videos, documents,

photos, and more available to members at inforum.com slash Dakota-spotlight. This podcast contains content that some may find

disturbing. Discretion is advised. Today, many of us sit at home and at the touch of a button we binge

movies and TV shows online and on demand. But many of us can remember another era when we

had to leave the home and take ourselves to the video store to rent or purchase movies on VHS tapes.

In fact, if we were really eager to see a new movie release, we might even line up outside of the

video store before they opened up in the morning.

Such was the case on September 1st, 1998, when the movie Titanic became available for purchase on video all around the United States.

One such place was Bismarck, the capital city of the state of North Dakota.

Titanic was called the Ship of dreams, and it was.

On that morning, September 1st, 1998, video stores in Bismarck were flooded with customers.

They fled to places like the Suncoast store in Kirkwood Mall, or Cashwise Video, near

the corner of expressway and

12th. And in the older part of town near Main Street and the railroad tracks at Blockbuster

Video, a line of excited North Dakotans spiraled through the parking lot and filed right up to

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