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Author Topic: Trip to Texas Part II Josh Jones Redhat Posts: 1207 From: Plano, TX Registered: Apr 2000 posted 04-29-2003 09:23 AM                        Paul and I are kicking around the idea of another trip to Texas this year in the first half of June, after my graduation. Anyone want to point out what we should see or do on the way down? Anyone want us to drop by and say hello? Yes Brad we will stay longer than last time Josh  |  IP: Logged Paul G. Thompson The Weenie Man Posts: 4718 From: Mount Vernon WA USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 04-29-2003 01:04 PM                     We are looking forward to meeting all of you again. Hopefully, we will meet more! It was a great trip last year! This year we will plan it out better since we have a little more time to play with. Hopefully, we will be able to visit some "Grand Old Barns" and museums along the way. Maybe even Lavezzi, LP Associates, and Strong's platter plant and Strong International again. Any more ideas? We are all ears....  |  IP: Logged Adam Martin I'm not even gonna point out the irony. Posts: 3686 From: Dallas, TX Registered: Nov 2000 posted 04-29-2003 04:13 PM                     It had to be June. I'm gonna be so busy that month.  |  IP: Logged Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 04-29-2003 04:20 PM                  Paul, Any idea when you'll be at Brads? LP Assoc... in L.A.? >>> Phil  |  IP: Logged Paul G. Thompson The Weenie Man Posts: 4718 From: Mount Vernon WA USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 04-29-2003 05:00 PM                     Phil, we don't know the exact date. it is still in the planning stages. LP Associates in Kansas City is what we were referring to.  |  IP: Logged Gerard S. Cohen Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 975 From: Forest Hills, NY, USA Registered: Sep 2001 posted 04-29-2003 05:33 PM                     Josh & Paul, Have you experienced the River Walk in San Antonio? It's fun to take a barge ride through the exquisitely landscaped canals, and you can dine on a restaurant barge while enjoying the cool of the evening. Lots of international restaurants along shore too, with music. Touristy, maybe, but fun!! San Antonio also boasts the Magic Lantern Castle/Museum, along a highway. Check out Jack's website and let him know you're coming, and he'll give you the royal treatment. My daughter, while an art student at Rice U., took her parents on a tour of "The Other Houston", including a visit to the Orange House, the Beer-Can House (yes, entirely made of beer cans), a sculptors' studio yard with 53 gigantic hollow statue heads of all the US presidents and assorted historical characters, garden restaurants, and really fine, specialized private and public museums, as well as the Rice campus, with its modern Romanesque architecture and live-oak trees. I wouldn't advise spending ALL your time at theatres... Gerard  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 04-29-2003 06:05 PM                     What to do in Texas on your next trip? One idea would be checking out an IMAX scan/blowup of "The Matrix: Reloaded" if it hits one of the DFW area's IMAX theaters in time. Anyone know a release date on that one? An excursion to the Lawton area would be at least a good hundred or so miles out of your way versus just staying on I-35 from Oklahoma City to the Dallas area. But we have a pretty cool wildlife refuge with a bunch of buffalo and wild longhorn cattle (very dangerous though). There's some halfway decent mountain scenery (about the only kind you could expect to get in any southern plains state). And the Carmike theater we have here is pretty decent. I really need to twist Jack Connor's arm and get him to register in these forums. One other theater-related curiousity is the Washita Theater in Cordele, OK. This is a real THX certified theater in a town with only around 2000 or so residents. I wonder if that makes Cordele the smallest town anywhere with THX?  |  IP: Logged Paul G. Thompson The Weenie Man Posts: 4718 From: Mount Vernon WA USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 04-30-2003 01:52 PM                     It looks like part of our run to Texas will cover the LaVezzi plant in Glendale Heights, Illinois. I talked to Mr. Norm Laudbach this morning, and things look very good. Thank you, Norm.  |  IP: Logged John Stewart Film Handler Posts: 67 From: Austin, TX, USA Registered: Sep 2001 posted 04-30-2003 09:13 PM                     Josh and Paul, If you have time to come to Austin, this is what we will be playing the first half of the month. Come see us at the Paramount. John Sun, June 1 THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI (1957) Tues-Wed, June 3-4 (Fayard Nicholas in Person -- June 4!) The Nicholas Brothers -- Harold & Fayard -- astounded movie audiences in the '30s and '40s with their astonishingly athletic tap dancing. Fayard, now 89, will be on hand to introduce "Stormy Weather" on June 4, as part of Tapestry Dance Company's "Soul to Sole" festival. STORMY WEATHER (1943) DOWN ARGENTINE WAY (1940) (Plus, "Batman & Robin," Chapter 4.) Fri-Sat, June 5-6 AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT (1972)(Plus, "Batman & Robin," Chapter 5) THE ADVENTURES OF BARON MUNCHAUSEN (1989) Sat-Sun, June 7-8 POLTERGEIST (1982) THE HAUNTING (1963) Tues-Wed, June 10-11 WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? (1966) BUTTERFIELD 8 (1960) Thurs & Sat, June 12 & 14 CITIZEN KANE (1941)(Plus "Batman & Robin," Chapter 6") THE THIRD MAN (1949) Tues-Wed, June 17-18 THE PARTY (1968). (Plus "Batman & Robin," Chapter 7). CASINO ROYALE (1967) (130 min.) (Widescreen & color)  |  IP: Logged Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 04-30-2003 09:23 PM                  John! I will be there for: Tues-Wed, June 17-18 THE PARTY (1968). CASINO ROYALE (1967) 2 of my all-time favorites! >>> Phil  |  IP: Logged Paul G. Thompson The Weenie Man Posts: 4718 From: Mount Vernon WA USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 04-30-2003 09:56 PM                     Austin and San Antonio are right on the southern track from the Dallas/Fort Worth area. We just might be able to do that. Thank you, John.  |  IP: Logged John Stewart Film Handler Posts: 67 From: Austin, TX, USA Registered: Sep 2001 posted 05-01-2003 06:49 PM                     Phil, I'll be looking for you. I haven't seen Casino for years. Saw THE PARTY not long ago on TMC. Paul, I think someone mentioned the projector museum in San Antonio. I think it belongs to the Judson family. Have not seen it but understand it is worth seeing. Also, there is a theater tech that lives there and has turned part of his warehouse into a projector museum. The Majestic theater downtown S.A. is something to see if possible. They haven't shown movies since the 70's sometime but it is still a live venue that is really special. I hope you and Josh can make it down to either town. I know Todd and I would love to see you guys again. John  |  IP: Logged Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 05-01-2003 07:18 PM                  Thanks John, I'm looking forward to meeting you. Back when I was between High School and College, I actually made a 45min, 16mm, cheesy rip-off satire that was a cross between Casino Royal and The Happening. Mine was based on me and 2 of my H.S. buddies going to Florida to SCUBA dive, camp out, and Ummmm... generally raise hell! It played in my local dive clubs and several times on TV back in the late 70's! >>> Phil  |  IP: Logged Paul G. Thompson The Weenie Man Posts: 4718 From: Mount Vernon WA USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 05-02-2003 02:57 PM                     ooooOOOOooooo! Things are looking good. Talked to George Higginbotham at SPECO, and we have been invited. Had an email conversation with Pat Moore, and it looks like we are invited to drop in on Strong International again. A tour at Lavezzi looks very good as well. I contacted Strong's platter plant and we have also been invited to tour their facilities. Brad, we will keep you posted on our time table. Gerard, the San Antonio area sounds like fun. I am sure we will be there. Bobby Hendrickson, there is a possibly we might be able to come into Lawton and say hello. I think we can hit Cordell first, then take the back road to Lawton. John Stewart, We will not ba able to see the screening of The Bridge On The River Kwai. We will be arriving too late for that, unfortunately. It is a great movie, though. I was 17 when I saw that one. One thing I hope I can do, and that is to toss Josh into a Steam Locomotive cab in Texas. They have a 1881 model of a 4-8-4 high-driver engine that runs around the Austin area, I think. Although steam locomotives really don't interest Josh, I think he would enjoy that if I could swing it for him. Some engineers allow rides in the cab, some don't. Soon, we will plot all this stuff on a map and see if we can come up with a pattern to follow on this trip. By the way, let's all say "congratulations" to Josh for graduating from high school on 2 June. We will be headed your way shortly after that.  |  IP: Logged Gerard S. Cohen Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 975 From: Forest Hills, NY, USA Registered: Sep 2001 posted 05-02-2003 07:31 PM                     Jack Judson's Magic Lantern Castle Museum outside San Antonio*: [Robert, who helps Jack, has had warehouses full of antique and vintage projectors at a separate location. I don't know where he keeps them now.] * http://www.magiclanterns.org/  |  IP: Logged

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