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Author Topic: Going to ShoWest,? Probally not Josh Mitoska Film Handler Posts: 59 From: Brooklyn, MI, USA Registered: Dec 2001 posted 02-05-2006 09:36 AM                     So I have never been to Showest, and being a Theatre Owner now for 5 years I thought maybe I should. So I got on the website and checked, I had no idea how EXPENSIVE IT IS!! It says the full registration is like $1,000... Has it always been that high, just wondering, and do you think it is really worth it??  |  IP: Logged Christian Volpi Master Film Handler Posts: 349 From: Arlington, NE Registered: Apr 2004 posted 02-05-2006 10:15 AM                        Worth every penny!  |  IP: Logged Kurt Zupin Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 989 From: Maricopa, Arizona Registered: Oct 2004 posted 02-05-2006 10:19 AM                     Although I am no longer working at a theater after moving out west, I think I will be making a trip up to Vegas for the FT gathering. All depending on the date and time...gotta see Scott drunk in a tub before I die  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 02-05-2006 12:43 PM                     Since you just spent some $$ on repairs with your dealer ask him. They usually have a display booth at Showorst as well. We generally supply all of our big customers or those that ask for Showorst Trade Show Paasses when ever we can. Dealers get them free. I used to attend the whole regala but don't any longer..... Its worse than walking through the largest Multiplex in SLC between show times.... you're just another head of cattle grazing from one end of Balley's to the other and then back again. But since you've never been to it and are a theatre owner you might want to indulge in the whole affair just to see what its about. Most theatre owners that I know with the exception of one or two just attend the trade show. Most are already well set in their way of buislness and just attend to look at new seating, sound, and projection. And then there is the all important freindship aspect where you see folks just once a year or so. Also if you go plan to sit in on the SMPTE meeting so you can see how standards and other industry technical problems are delt with. There is also (hopefully) the Film-Tech Drink Night to attend and you can meet other F-T'ers and see Guttag's "Mountain OF Cheese"... Mark P.S. Me... I will be there for a while and then I have more important things to attend to like exploring old Nevada Ghost Towns and the like..... That is way more fun than any projector show!  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 02-05-2006 02:09 PM                        Everybody should go at least once to see all the ridiculous hoopla. I went in '95 and haven't been since, but would like to take my wife because she's never been. So we keep talking about it, or possibly ShowEast which neither of us have been to. BTW, congratulations on the worst-spelled and worst-punctuated thread title of the year so far.  |  IP: Logged Dieter Depypere Master Film Handler Posts: 343 From: Deutsch-Wagram, Lower Austria, Austria Registered: May 2005 posted 02-05-2006 02:13 PM                     Does that event take place somewhere in Europe too?  |  IP: Logged Thomas Jonsson Expert Film Handler Posts: 216 From: Bromolla, Sweden Registered: Sep 2003 posted 02-05-2006 02:53 PM                       CinemaExpo in Amsterdam (at the RAI convention center). This year June 26-29. About half as big as ShoWest and half as fun. I´ve been to ShoWest 5 times the last 7 years, and I just love it. Bought the whole package twice, but it´s not worth the money. The price is way too high. The great thing about it is the Trade show and Las Vegas. Included in the trip for us are also 2 or 3 days in New York or Los Angeles. We try to see as many theaters as possible. Thomas  |  IP: Logged Mike Heenan Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1896 From: Scottsdale, AZ, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 02-05-2006 05:38 PM                     Assuming you own a theater or even manage a theater, wouldn't something like this be a write off of sorts?  |  IP: Logged Greg Mueller Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1687 From: Port Gamble, WA Registered: Jun 99 posted 02-05-2006 05:50 PM                        You'd still have to pay the $1000 just not the income taxes on the $1000. Also the airplane tickets and the hotel and the eats, plus the lost time away from your job. I went once and have no real desire to go again  |  IP: Logged Michael Schaffer "Where is the Boardwalk Hotel?" Posts: 4143 From: Boston, MA Registered: Apr 2002 posted 02-05-2006 07:33 PM                        quote: Mark Gulbrandsen like exploring old Nevada Ghost Towns What kind of Ghost Towns? Gold digger towns? I know Calico, CA, on the way to Vegas but I found it a little disappointing. It had been well conserved, or actually, too well, with paved streets and a Coke vending machine outside the saloon. That didn't really allow the Western flair to unfold.  |  IP: Logged Paul Mayer Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under! Posts: 3836 From: Albuquerque, NM Registered: Feb 2000 posted 02-05-2006 08:57 PM                        Yeah, much of Calico burned to the ground a few years ago and has since been rebuilt, so those parts are now recreations, not actual old stuff. It does get a fair amount of tourist traffic, hence the paved roads. The old west part of the Knott's Berry Farm theme park in Buena Park is based on Calico. Nevada has many real ghost towns, a couple of which have become popular tourist attractions. But the rest of them are just what they are - abandoned towns left to wither away in the harsh desert. Virginia City, home of the Comstock Lode in Storey County near Reno, is the most touristy. Gold Hill, just down the hill from Virginia City, is more typical. Genoa, the oldest town in Nevada and just south in Douglas County, is also touristy and has also become quite gentrified, with a Japanese-owned golf course and million-dollar-plus homes for aging ex-yuppies escaping from California. Goldfield, in Esmeralda County, is probably the most well preserved without much in the way of actual preservation activity going on. Many of the buildings like the courthouse and post office are in remarkable shape, probably because of their brick and stone construction. Rhyolite, in Nye County, is much more typical in its decay - it's masonry buildings haven't fared nearly as well. Of course most of these ghost towns featured wood construction, and by far these are the ones now in the worst shape. When I used to drive van loads of teenage CAP cadets to Reno for summer encampments, we made a point of stopping to see some of these places along the way. Sort of a living history lesson for Nevadans. Ghost Towns of Nevada  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 02-05-2006 09:06 PM                        FWIW, ShoWest registration does NOT cost $1000 unless you register on site. (Even then it's a bit under -- unless you're from outside the US.) It's still awful expensive though. When I went in 1995 it was $500 for the full package for NATO members. NATO/ITEA/NAC Members - $845 per person Non-Members - $940 per person Onsite - $995 per person  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 02-05-2006 09:37 PM                     quote: Michael Schaffer What kind of Ghost Towns? Exploring old ghost/mining towns is one of my passions in life. Lots of them can be found through out Nevada. California and the Mountain States also have quite a few. Believe it or not they number on the hundreds! A good example of a "living" or well preserved Ghost Town is Pioche, NV . and it is one of the more interesting of them all. Pioche began in 1864 and at it heyday it had 7000 residents. Today there may be 200 there total. There is an interesting cemetary there with more real outlaws burried than any place else. In fact Pioche was such a voilent place during its heyday that 72 people were burried in the cemetary before anyone died from natural causes. Historic Pioche as far as I know has no equal in terms of a "living" Ghost Town. There are alot of mone remnants left and some remnants look to be in such good shape that they look like they were just shut doawn a few years ago. Bodie, CA . is another fantastic and well preserved Ghost town. Although its not lived in it is now a California State Park. Anyway a couple of good books you can get are " Roadside History Of Nevada " by Richard Moreno and " Ghost Towns Of The American West ", Photographs by Berthold Steinhilber. Steinhilbers erie photos are all done at night or at twilight and he uses strobe lighting to paint light on the buildings of famous ghost towns. These photos have to be seen to be appreciated . Mark  |  IP: Logged Mike Heenan Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1896 From: Scottsdale, AZ, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 02-05-2006 09:42 PM                     This reminds of that Simpsons episode where they were in a wild west ghost town, and the tour guide says "now over here is an authentic old time hitching post, which may or may not have been used by outlaws", and then everyone takes pictures of it.  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 02-05-2006 10:24 PM                     Yea, I'm going cuz my boss wants me to - to get some "learning" in after I told him that I want to get something more of what's out there instead of looking at old STRONG equipment all the time. Be my first time and definitely looking for it - knowing that's going to be a 'zoo' of sorts, but you only have to do it at least one time.  |  IP: Logged

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