davefox: Yes that is correct. Opera Pacifica no longer has any involvement with the Fox Theater. Scott White of Historic Fox Theater is the current owner/operator.
They are doing a Halloween triple feature of classic horror movies:
Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
Attack of the 50 Foot Woman (1958)
Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)
The B.F. Shearer company was a huge theater equipment dealer all up and down the west coast during the late 1940’s through the mid 1960’s. They had offices in Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.
You enter the theater at the sandwich sign where the main tavern portion is. There’s a “Cocktails” sign in the window there. The doors at the theater itself underneath the theater ‘marquee’ are merely emergency exit doors as required by the fire department. I’ve never watched a movie there myself, but have been in their projection booth a few times. They have Simplex XL projector, RCA soundhead, Strong Super Lume-x lamphouse with a 1600 watt bulb, Strong platter, and DTS digital sound. I don’t know if they converted to video projection yet.
The theater is a converted Rite-Aid drug store building. It has no projection booth. All the video projectors are mounted in the auditorium.
davefox: Yes that is correct. Opera Pacifica no longer has any involvement with the Fox Theater. Scott White of Historic Fox Theater is the current owner/operator.
They are doing a Halloween triple feature of classic horror movies: Bride of Frankenstein (1935) Attack of the 50 Foot Woman (1958) Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)
I forget to mention the link to USA Drive-ins' website:
http://usadrive-ins.com/
Existing drive-in theaters can get in on joining up with Johnny Rockets as mentioned here:
http://www.eater.com/2014/9/15/6156017/johnny-rockets-to-debut-drive-in-movie-concept
USA Drive-ins LLC has a facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/USA-Drive-Ins/721881731183023
Any pictures of the projection booth?
Carmike will probably put a proviso in the sale agreement to never allow this to be a theater again.
I remember the old 4 plex had gaps at the bottom of the auditorium doors because the ground kept sinking!
The interior of this theater looks much like the interior of the 7th Street Theater in Hoquiam, Washington.
Was the theater still boarded up?
Here’s the newspaper story about the bankruptcy:
http://thedailyworld.com/news/local/closed-aberdeen-businesses-open-under-new-names
The B.F. Shearer company was a huge theater equipment dealer all up and down the west coast during the late 1940’s through the mid 1960’s. They had offices in Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.
Did this theater do enough business to warrant the conversion to video projectors?
Sad news. :(
I hope insurance can pay for a new one. They should call Selby Screen Towers for an estimate.
Very sad news indeed. :(
You enter the theater at the sandwich sign where the main tavern portion is. There’s a “Cocktails” sign in the window there. The doors at the theater itself underneath the theater ‘marquee’ are merely emergency exit doors as required by the fire department. I’ve never watched a movie there myself, but have been in their projection booth a few times. They have Simplex XL projector, RCA soundhead, Strong Super Lume-x lamphouse with a 1600 watt bulb, Strong platter, and DTS digital sound. I don’t know if they converted to video projection yet.
I’ve eaten there before. The food was good and so was the service.
Here’s a picture I found of the theater dated October 22, 2013.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/chiski/11426652065/in/photostream/
What a beautiful screen tower!
It appears they only show single features.
It’s a haunted theater:
http://www.hauntedplaces.org/item/gem-theatre/
That website has a nice picture of the front of the building as it looks today all restored.
This is horrible news. :(
I hope they can reopen this theater. Looks like it has a good potential.
That is good news!
Interesting to see a converted bus used as a snack bar. Do they plan on building a permanent snack bar building?