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Author Topic: CLOSING THEATRES Scott D. Neff Theatre Dork Posts: 919 From: San Francisco, CA Registered: Oct 1999 posted 05-09-2000 04:51 AM                        Come on everybody! With UA and Mann in serious financial trouble... we'd better rush out and get pics of all those theatres before they close or get sold to somebody else who might remove the bubble-gum and duct tape that holds the projectors together. It's SOOOO much more fun to see pictures of run-down UA theatres than to see pics of boring booths with all Christie or Strong packages. I wanna see me some booths that were scraped together - the kinds with 3 different types of platters and 3 styles of projectors. THOSE are the best! ;-) (I don't know what's caused the sudden overwhelming enthusiasm... probably my upcoming trip to L.A. where I plan on getting to as many theatres as possible)  |  IP: Logged William Dickson Film Handler Posts: 41 From: Riverside, Ca. USA Registered: Jan 2000 posted 05-09-2000 12:24 PM                     Hey, I just took some pictures of theaters that our company has taken over from Edwards and Premiere. While not as bad as you described they are pretty peiced together. Wait until you see the spaghetti wiring in the back of the sound racks on the theaters from Premiere. I will try to get them to Brad soon for posting.  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 05-09-2000 06:00 PM                     I've seen spagetti wiring in in racks at brand new Edwards theaters! Must be related to eating too much spagetti or something. Burp! Mark  |  IP: Logged Ken Layton Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1452 From: Olympia, Wash. USA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 05-10-2000 08:55 AM                     Are there cigarette butts put out in the backs of the sound racks , too, like on top of the amplifiers?  |  IP: Logged William Dickson Film Handler Posts: 41 From: Riverside, Ca. USA Registered: Jan 2000 posted 05-10-2000 06:52 PM                     No cigarette butts but at the premiere Theater we had very few allen wrenches and socket heads until I cleaned out all the lamphouses. No lying, an average of four allen wrenches and 2 socket heads per lamphouse. My favorite part of the entire situation was that most of these didn't fit any nuts or bolts in the lamphouse!!!!!?????  |  IP: Logged Chris Wootten Film Handler Posts: 50 From: Moonlit Cinema, RAAF Tindal, N.T. Australia Registered: Dec 1999 posted 05-11-2000 04:37 AM                     And how many pieces of granite hard chewing gum left stuck to evry nook and cranny ??????????? ------------------ "I luv the smell of napalm in tha mornin !" Keep Smiling......Chris  |  IP: Logged William Dickson Film Handler Posts: 41 From: Riverside, Ca. USA Registered: Jan 2000 posted 05-16-2000 09:54 PM                     My favorite part of the Edwards was all the manuals for equipment we didn't have on this location and a lack of manuals for the equipment we actually had. I guess that was job security for their techs. If the manual wasn't around the projectionists wouldn't be able to take initiative and fix minor problems themselves. Thank goodness for the manual downloads page on this site.  |  IP: Logged

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