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Author Topic: Studio 28 Grand Rapids Auction prices Barry Floyd Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1079 From: Lebanon, Tennessee, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 01-28-2009 02:38 PM                        After 43 years of service to the community Studio 28 located at 1350 28th St Sw, Grand Rapids MI, closed it's doors and hired an auction company to liquidate it's assets. Check out these prices. Does cinema equipment usually go for this low of an amount? Completed Auction Prices Complete 35mm projectors, pedestals, and lamphouse for $38.00!! A Xenex II lamphouse with a Cinemeccanica VP projector for $12.50 Big Sky Platter - $90.00, Speco LP270 platter for $41.00 Lot of 3 Christie AW-3's for $425 (That's $141 bucks a piece) How about 13 Strong AP-3 Platters for $1500 - That's $115 each! Either somebody got an amazing deal, or somebody's going to the scrap metal dealer.  |  IP: Logged Dennis Udovich Film Handler Posts: 71 From: Sheboygan, WI, USA Registered: Dec 2001 posted 01-28-2009 03:14 PM                        WOW, this is a real shock to me. (About closing) I was on vacation in the early 90's and made a point of seeing this theatre. The people gave my wife and I a complete tour. I'm sad to see it close.  |  IP: Logged James Westbrook Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1133 From: Lubbock, Texas, Usa Registered: Mar 2006 posted 01-28-2009 03:59 PM                     I know this theatre had more equipment than some, but I never realized how much stuff a multiplex actually has until someone itemizes it all, like what was done here...  |  IP: Logged David Zylstra Master Film Handler Posts: 432 From: Novi, MI, USA Registered: Mar 2007 posted 01-28-2009 05:54 PM                     I saw one of the Cinemeccanicas show up on Ebay already - bidding is up to $255. All the 35mm stuff was idle for almost 2 years since Studio 28 was all digital. I was going to go, but did not have the time to waste driving across the state. Sad to see the place close, but good to know that most of the patrons will be going to the same owner's other nearby venues.  |  IP: Logged Mike Olpin Chop Chop! Posts: 1852 From: Dallas, TX Registered: Jan 2002 posted 01-28-2009 09:16 PM                     I got a THX booth monitor (sans crossover cards) and some soundproofing I plan to use at home. I would have picked up a few JBL 8330s, but alas I'm on a budget, and 8330s are readily available anywhere. It's funny that the Christie equipment went for so much more than all the rest. If they had stayed as low as some of the others, I might have picked one up. I've shot a TON of footage of closing night and auditorium gutting. As soon as they set a date to demolish the building, you can bet I'll be there filming. quote: David Zylstra Sad to see the place close, but good to know that most of the patrons will be going to the same owner's other nearby venues. Do they have a choice? It's pretty much them and an AMC/Star in that whole area. At least Loek's runs a pretty high quality operation, whereas a lot of companies with heavy market dominance in a region seem to stop trying.  |  IP: Logged John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 01-28-2009 09:22 PM                     Some bargains there...pity about the shipping costs though...  |  IP: Logged Adam Fraser Master Film Handler Posts: 499 From: Houghton Lake, MI, USA Registered: Dec 2001 posted 01-29-2009 09:57 AM                        Darn, I only live a couple hours from there. I would have laid down a couple thousand for spare parts if I would have known about the auction. Darn.  |  IP: Logged Todd McCracken Master Film Handler Posts: 263 From: Northridge, CA, USA Registered: Mar 2008 posted 01-29-2009 09:59 AM                    Shucks, average selling price on the 35mm Cinemeccanica projectors was about 40$ Alas not too close to Los Angeles  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-29-2009 03:41 PM                     Digital has killed the price of all used film equipment regardless of brand or country of manufacture or quality. It just doesn't make sense to install but a projector or two in new large builds with digital looming. A person or company that spends money on nice new film gear will end up hauling it to the scrap heap in 5 years or less. Mark.  |  IP: Logged Mike Babb Master Film Handler Posts: 250 From: Norwich UK Registered: Jul 2002 posted 01-29-2009 04:13 PM                        When i was there loading my V5/consoles, the best deal of the auction btw, there were a couple guys loading piles of Xetron/Irem rectifiers to take to the scrapyard...there also seemed to be many people buying projectors for the novelty factor  |  IP: Logged James Westbrook Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1133 From: Lubbock, Texas, Usa Registered: Mar 2006 posted 01-29-2009 06:11 PM                     I suspect a lot of the seats were being bought for novelty sake. A barber shop I used to go to had wooden seats that came from a old theatre for customers to sit in and wait...(which old theatre the owner didn't know as he bought them from someone else.)  |  IP: Logged

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