There was, in the 1970s, another cinema in this “mall”. At the opposite end of the mall was a Jerry Lewis theater that went GCC before it closed. I have a picture somewhere…
I was a projectionist here in the early 1990s. I probably showed the print of Jurassic Park that you saw. There were two of us projectionists on rotation. The GM could build a print and thread machines. The projectors were made in India as copies of Simplex projectors. They had rather delicate intermittents. I remember that we ran the same print of Dennis the Menace for a VERY long time. So long that the first two feet of the film (post previews) had dozens of splices. It got so bad (and after nearly six months in second-run) we just cut it off. I have that somewhere… Anyhow it jump started for two more months before it was replaced.
I remember seeing many movies here… Glenn had brought into the lobby the revolving hologram from the end of Logan’s Run while it was shown there. I also got to see Star Wars from the upstairs private area. A fantastic place.
There was, in the 1970s, another cinema in this “mall”. At the opposite end of the mall was a Jerry Lewis theater that went GCC before it closed. I have a picture somewhere…
I was a projectionist here in the early 1990s. I probably showed the print of Jurassic Park that you saw. There were two of us projectionists on rotation. The GM could build a print and thread machines. The projectors were made in India as copies of Simplex projectors. They had rather delicate intermittents. I remember that we ran the same print of Dennis the Menace for a VERY long time. So long that the first two feet of the film (post previews) had dozens of splices. It got so bad (and after nearly six months in second-run) we just cut it off. I have that somewhere… Anyhow it jump started for two more months before it was replaced.
I remember seeing many movies here… Glenn had brought into the lobby the revolving hologram from the end of Logan’s Run while it was shown there. I also got to see Star Wars from the upstairs private area. A fantastic place.