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Author Topic: 10 years Brandon Willis Expert Film Handler Posts: 216 From: Richmond, VA, USA Registered: Apr 2004 posted 01-22-2005 01:15 AM                     The theatre I work at turned 10 years old this past week. Thursday, January 20, 2005 was the 10th birthday of the opening of Regal Cinemas Virginia Center in Richmond, VA. The theatre opened as a 14-plex in 1995 and was expanded in 1998 into a 20-plex with stadium seating. It is one of the highest grossing theatres in the Richmond area and I hope it stays around for many more years.  |  IP: Logged Aaron Garman Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1470 From: Toledo, OH USA Registered: Mar 2003 posted 01-22-2005 03:06 AM                     Our place turns 10 in March this year. It opened up as a 10 screen, sloped auditoriums, and 4 DTS houses. Now, we have 4 stadiums added to the original 10, and everything is in digital sound (SRD or DTS) except three screens. We still do good business, and wallop our crosstown rival in terms of presentation. I've worked there almost 4 years, but I've been a patron since day one. I love our place! AJG  |  IP: Logged Scott Norwood Film God Posts: 8146 From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-22-2005 07:46 AM                        Hey, I've been to Brandon's theatre. This would have been around 1998-1999. The big houses are decent and used to be (but I don't think still are) THX certified. Hopefully they're doing a good job of keeping up the physical building. I've heard stories of some older "standard 1990s Regal design" theatres with leaky roofs and other structural issues. The oldest theatre where I have worked will be 79 years old this year; the youngest will be seven.  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 01-22-2005 08:07 AM                     Hmmm....the Uptown in DC turned 10-years....about 59-years ago.  |  IP: Logged Jim Bedford Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 597 From: Telluride, CO, USA (733 mi. WNW of Rockwall, TX but it seems much, much longer) Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-22-2005 09:48 AM                        The one-screen Nugget Theatre in Telluride, CO, will turn 70 this year. In 1935 the owner hung the floor above us from an armature built on the roof, took out the bearing wall in the middle of a 50' building and created a 35' wide movie theatre in the space. It's shown movies ever since and my wife Luci and I have operated it for the past 20 years. The Telluride Film Festival has used this theatre for 30 years. There are two Nuggets in the US. The other is a four-plex in Hanover, NH.  |  IP: Logged Brandon Willis Expert Film Handler Posts: 216 From: Richmond, VA, USA Registered: Apr 2004 posted 01-22-2005 11:47 AM                     The theatre is still in good shape. We don't have the THX certification in #14 (the old #8 before the 20 plex conversion) anymore. The interior has been modified a lot, but we keep the place as clean as a 10 year old theatre complex that does this much traffic can be.  |  IP: Logged Chris Mosel Film Handler Posts: 74 From: New Braunfels, TX, USA Registered: Sep 2002 posted 01-22-2005 12:51 PM                     The first theatre I worked at would have turned 63 this year, opened 1 month to the day after the Pearl Harbour attack. The projectionist was drafted for WW II and returned after the war. I worked with him until he passed away in 95. Great guy with great theatre and war stories. The theatre I'm at now turns 6 this year and I've been here since construction. World of difference.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-22-2005 01:07 PM                        Mine will be 75 years old on September 6 of this year. That is if the radio/TV/cable/videogame/Betamax/VHS/DVD/home-theatre/downloading revolution doesn't put us out of business before then.  |  IP: Logged Aaron Mehocic Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 804 From: New Castle, PA, USA Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-22-2005 01:58 PM                     Any plans to hype your diamond anniversary, or are you keeping it fairly low key?  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 01-22-2005 04:10 PM                     The Carmike theater here in Lawton had its 10th birthday recently. The theater opened in December of 1994 with 8 screens, 2 of them THX certified and equipped with DTS (those DTS-6 two-drive machines are still working fine). Now all 8 screens have DTS and work is being completed on a stadium seating conversion.  |  IP: Logged Bill Enos Film God Posts: 2081 From: Richmond, Virginia, USA Registered: Apr 2000 posted 01-22-2005 04:35 PM                     Our theatre turned 76 continuous uninterrupted years this past dec. 24. Never closed.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-22-2005 06:04 PM                        Aaron - no specific plans yet, but I'm brainstorming ideas.  |  IP: Logged Wayne Keyser Master Film Handler Posts: 272 From: Arlington, Virginia, USA Registered: May 2004 posted 01-22-2005 06:34 PM                     Brandon - Hurray for you! If you're in Richmond, ask around about the old Lee Art, now THERE was a house! 35 years ago, it was smack in the middle of the Virginia Commonwealth University campus - leaky ceiling, a corner of the screen coming loose, a couple of rows of seats collapsed ("just don't sit there"). But every one of us knew the place well. Why? Because it was the early days of porn, and when we'd brave its seedy interior we all felt so guilty that we believed that our souls were just about as broken-down as the theater. It's a much more respectable place now, of course. I think I heard that it's an "arts center" or something. If the fine folks who go there only knew...  |  IP: Logged Brandon Willis Expert Film Handler Posts: 216 From: Richmond, VA, USA Registered: Apr 2004 posted 01-22-2005 08:39 PM                     Wayne- The Lee X Theatre is now owned by VCU and they use it for the Art Foundation program. They teach freshman art classes there. Down the street, the old Biograph theatre has been gutted and turned into a "cyber cafe." With all the new development going on Downtown with the performing arts center and whatnot, I would expect to see someone put a multiplex down there in the next few years.  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-22-2005 08:45 PM                     Brandon... Hopefully you haven't been with them for all of those 10 years ! Mark  |  IP: Logged

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