Alices Restaurant by Arlo Guthrie set an attendance record for the theatre during its 6 week run(under the seating configuration at the time). The morning cleanup crew was always amazed at the amount of marijuana they found in the auditorium. We sold an enormous amount of snack items, The Orange Winzit stand across Wilshire and Delores did great business.
The seating capacity when I was there was 653. We used to stack the pre-cooked bags of popcorn from the popcorn facility in Culver City upstairs in the employee lounge. Sometimes that popcorn was on the shelf if we has a bad movie for 8-12 weeks
Charlie Hawthorne was a prince of a man. He shared the duties with another man in the late 60’s and 70’s whose name I cannot recall. He was very forgiving when I messed up his payroll hours!
I was the asst mgr under Jim Peters, who later transferred to the Village in Westwood for Love Story. I endured the stink bombs there during the Herald Examiner strikes and the bomb like The Charge of the Light Brigade with Trevar Howard and Ringo Starr. I also had the joy of Belle De Jour , Chitty Chitty Bang Bang( the childrens Premiere) and Monterey Pop.
Also, the theatre was torn down to make way for the Corp headquarters of the National General Corp., the owner of the NGC theatre chain that included Graumans Chinese, The Village, Bruin
El Rey, Culver, Fairfax, Fine Arts The Wilshire etc. The chairman of NGC was Eugene V. Klein, the late owner of the San Diego Chargers of the NFL and a well known racing horse owner.
I was the assistant mgr at the Fine Arts Theatre under Jim Peters
I was offered the same position in 1969 at the Carthay Circle for the Shoes of the Fishererman starring Anthony Quinn. Knowing that the fire dept deemed the upper level a hazard due to the steep incline,I declined the promotiom. Later the upper level of the Fox Wilshire was also closed for the same problem.
Does anyone know whatever happened to Jim Peters, the manager during “Love Story” who later went to the Century City Theatres?
Alices Restaurant by Arlo Guthrie set an attendance record for the theatre during its 6 week run(under the seating configuration at the time). The morning cleanup crew was always amazed at the amount of marijuana they found in the auditorium. We sold an enormous amount of snack items, The Orange Winzit stand across Wilshire and Delores did great business.
The seating capacity when I was there was 653. We used to stack the pre-cooked bags of popcorn from the popcorn facility in Culver City upstairs in the employee lounge. Sometimes that popcorn was on the shelf if we has a bad movie for 8-12 weeks
Charlie Hawthorne was a prince of a man. He shared the duties with another man in the late 60’s and 70’s whose name I cannot recall. He was very forgiving when I messed up his payroll hours!
I was the asst mgr under Jim Peters, who later transferred to the Village in Westwood for Love Story. I endured the stink bombs there during the Herald Examiner strikes and the bomb like The Charge of the Light Brigade with Trevar Howard and Ringo Starr. I also had the joy of Belle De Jour , Chitty Chitty Bang Bang( the childrens Premiere) and Monterey Pop.
Also, the theatre was torn down to make way for the Corp headquarters of the National General Corp., the owner of the NGC theatre chain that included Graumans Chinese, The Village, Bruin
El Rey, Culver, Fairfax, Fine Arts The Wilshire etc. The chairman of NGC was Eugene V. Klein, the late owner of the San Diego Chargers of the NFL and a well known racing horse owner.
I was the assistant mgr at the Fine Arts Theatre under Jim Peters
I was offered the same position in 1969 at the Carthay Circle for the Shoes of the Fishererman starring Anthony Quinn. Knowing that the fire dept deemed the upper level a hazard due to the steep incline,I declined the promotiom. Later the upper level of the Fox Wilshire was also closed for the same problem.