Don’t remember Marjorie Main but I also worked the very fancy tiny ticket office way out there almost on the sidewalk. When Jack came in to switch tills it was a little small in there. There was a regular ticket girl named Holly who usually worked the booth. Since the Pacific and Pantages were owned by the same company I had to walk down the street once or twice and fill in there, probably because of a big opening or something. Was Ernie short, portly and funny? I might remember him. The name is familiar. I’d like to find John McGuire. He was an aspiring actor. (of course) Nice to know about the organ. Pretty dramatic it must have been.
I worked at the Hollywood Pacific about 1974 as a “candy girl” and usherette. Jack Tate was my manager. It was one of my very first jobs but I never forgot him or his name. He was dapper and professional. And a nice person. My uniform was I think was an orange and (blue?) dress made of that awful polyester stuff most uniforms were made of then. I worked with two ushers I remember; one a slender,lovely usher named Hal and a sweet guy named John McGuire.
Hal and I sneaked down to see the old organ which I remember being attached to a hydraulic pole that in the old days made it rise to the stage level. Does anyone know if it really did this? It was spooky down there, and also behind the stage where you could see all the ropes and pulleys still hanging. The whole theater was a little
spooky. “Jesus Christ Superstar” ran forever and ever, it seemed. Hal and I had all the songs memorized. “I don’t know how to lo-ove him”… Hoo boy.
Don’t remember Marjorie Main but I also worked the very fancy tiny ticket office way out there almost on the sidewalk. When Jack came in to switch tills it was a little small in there. There was a regular ticket girl named Holly who usually worked the booth. Since the Pacific and Pantages were owned by the same company I had to walk down the street once or twice and fill in there, probably because of a big opening or something. Was Ernie short, portly and funny? I might remember him. The name is familiar. I’d like to find John McGuire. He was an aspiring actor. (of course) Nice to know about the organ. Pretty dramatic it must have been.
I worked at the Hollywood Pacific about 1974 as a “candy girl” and usherette. Jack Tate was my manager. It was one of my very first jobs but I never forgot him or his name. He was dapper and professional. And a nice person. My uniform was I think was an orange and (blue?) dress made of that awful polyester stuff most uniforms were made of then. I worked with two ushers I remember; one a slender,lovely usher named Hal and a sweet guy named John McGuire.
Hal and I sneaked down to see the old organ which I remember being attached to a hydraulic pole that in the old days made it rise to the stage level. Does anyone know if it really did this? It was spooky down there, and also behind the stage where you could see all the ropes and pulleys still hanging. The whole theater was a little
spooky. “Jesus Christ Superstar” ran forever and ever, it seemed. Hal and I had all the songs memorized. “I don’t know how to lo-ove him”… Hoo boy.