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Author Topic: Every "Old Barn" seems to have a creepy dank dungeon. What is yours like? Paul G. Thompson The Weenie Man Posts: 4718 From: Mount Vernon WA USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 06-17-2003 02:44 PM                     Here is Don's. Dungeons are cool!  |  IP: Logged Bill Gabel Film God Posts: 3873 From: Technicolor / Postworks NY, USA Registered: Jan 2002 posted 06-17-2003 03:38 PM                     The basements of the Warner Hollywood, Warner Beverly Hills and the Warner Wiltern Theatres. They all had great old stuff hidden away. I found boxes of old one sheets, old Art-Deco light fixtures, projection equipment, those old box office coin machines, everything.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 06-17-2003 04:59 PM                        Who is Don?  |  IP: Logged Paul G. Thompson The Weenie Man Posts: 4718 From: Mount Vernon WA USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 06-17-2003 11:17 PM                     Joe, it is Don Bruchert from the Strand Theatre in my home town. I hope I didn't misspell his name too awful.. Bill, do you have any pics of it?  |  IP: Logged Bill Enos Film God Posts: 2081 From: Richmond, Virginia, USA Registered: Apr 2000 posted 06-17-2003 11:30 PM                     Our baseent is a workshop but there is also a 30'x30' concrete room that a spring that was uncovered whe nthe building was built drains into. The water is usually about 6 ft deep and the temp is about 56 degrees F. There is a pump that runs about 50% of the time keeping the level down. Things discovered in storage spaces include a Vitaphone marquee flag, a wooden Vitaphone shipping crate that originally carried a Vitaphone turntable, a pristine Brenograph Model F7 operating manual, a book on maintaing a mercury pool rectifier.  |  IP: Logged Bill Gabel Film God Posts: 3873 From: Technicolor / Postworks NY, USA Registered: Jan 2002 posted 06-18-2003 09:20 AM                     Paul I will look to see if I have pictures. Bill  |  IP: Logged Bernard Tonks Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 619 From: Cranleigh, Surrey, England Registered: Apr 2001 posted 06-18-2003 11:00 AM                     It was in the basement long forgotten of the Carlton Theatre, Haymarket in London, where I found a complete set of projection equipment that was originally installed as a gift from 20th Century Fox to Sir Winston Churchill for his private cinema at Chartwell. The projectors and bases were Standard Simplex with RCA 1041 soundheads in excellent condition. It is said, that Marilyn Monroe pictures were favourites of Sir Winston. As mentioned before, the equipment found a new home at the Electric Cinema, Portobello Road in London, replacing the clapped out BTH projectors with type D block soundheads. In the basement of the Electric were the remains completely solid crusted in rust that was the equipment before the BTH. Thought to have been installed in the 1920s, which looked like Simplex projector heads, with added unknown soundheads. Backstage of the large ABC Mayfair, Tooting in South London, were tons of old equipment stored.  |  IP: Logged Scott D. Neff Theatre Dork Posts: 919 From: San Francisco, CA Registered: Oct 1999 posted 06-18-2003 12:24 PM                        Why would anybody stop using those AW1 and AW2's??? Those are perfectly good machines...  |  IP: Logged Rachel Craven Madam Moderator Posts: 2190 From: Pensacola, FL Registered: Dec 2000 posted 06-19-2003 12:48 AM                     Because they suck!  |  IP: Logged Adam Fraser Master Film Handler Posts: 499 From: Houghton Lake, MI, USA Registered: Dec 2001 posted 06-21-2003 11:47 AM                        Electrical Room The shower for the guy who used to shovel coal into the furnace in the '40's, I bet that sucked for a full time job! The radiator for heating and cooling the theatre, for cooling we use ground water, after it comes from the radiator it sprinkles the lawn. Out of frame are two blowers. The furnace room, beyond this is the old coal chute where a truck would dump the coal into the basement. Sorry for the not so great pictures, my camera doesnt have a wide enough lens to take pics so close.  |  IP: Logged Bruce McGee Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1776 From: Asheville, NC USA... Nowhere in Particular. Registered: Aug 1999 posted 06-21-2003 06:58 PM                     Adam, is your boiler oil or gas fired? The electrical room looks good. Some I have seen had old evidence of fire around some of the boxes!  |  IP: Logged Adam Fraser Master Film Handler Posts: 499 From: Houghton Lake, MI, USA Registered: Dec 2001 posted 06-21-2003 10:18 PM                        Is gas fired, was converted from oil in the very early 70's. Electrical room hasnt given us any problems, I think it is a bit overdone, the switch box is 440 3 ph., the white box on the far left is a transformer to drop the 440 to 220, The right wall (not pictured) is mostly the old style frankenstein switches.  |  IP: Logged Don Bruechert Mmmmmmmmm, bird! Posts: 340 From: Manitowoc, WI, USA Registered: Jan 2003 posted 06-23-2003 11:47 AM                        I haven't been on here in a while. I just wanted to take a moment to say it was great to get to meet Paul and Josh when they stopped by a couple of weeks ago - hope you guys liked the tour, and the chance to see film done mostly wrong at its finest!! Also thanks for letting everyone see what we really think of our Christie crap - relegating it to a junkpile in the basement, next to a leaky standpipe that makes a smell like raw sewage every few days (see pipes to left of junkpile). We could only stay down there a few minutes so we wouldn't come upstairs smelling like giant turds!!! Anyone wanting to see more of our place can badger Paul for the photos he took while there, or wait till Rachel takes a batch when she's bored... one or the other...  |  IP: Logged

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