The operator made several false starts on The Red Shoes. There was no sound. I jumped up and entered the booth through the door beside the screen. “I work at KQED,” I said by way of a credential.
I asked for a can of dust-off. He produced it and I squirted a puff into the Bell and Howell sound head. I grabbed a scrap of paper, passed it through the head and heard a rewarding “bloop” from the speaker.
“Carry on,” I said, returning annonymously to my seat.
(I guess I should have billed you for that, Jack.)
Both of my parents' families were from Livingston.
I believe the first Court Theater was a second-story store front a couple of blocks north of the present structure.
The Court family erected the present building in the early ‘50s, AIR. (My paternal grandmother was, for many years, the librarian at the neighboring branch of the Merced County Library.)
I recall seeing two pictures at the existing Court: The Wizard of OZ in probably its second re-release and Viva Zapata in its first release.
I once saved the show at the Richlieu.
The operator made several false starts on The Red Shoes. There was no sound. I jumped up and entered the booth through the door beside the screen. “I work at KQED,” I said by way of a credential.
I asked for a can of dust-off. He produced it and I squirted a puff into the Bell and Howell sound head. I grabbed a scrap of paper, passed it through the head and heard a rewarding “bloop” from the speaker.
“Carry on,” I said, returning annonymously to my seat.
(I guess I should have billed you for that, Jack.)
Both of my parents' families were from Livingston.
I believe the first Court Theater was a second-story store front a couple of blocks north of the present structure.
The Court family erected the present building in the early ‘50s, AIR. (My paternal grandmother was, for many years, the librarian at the neighboring branch of the Merced County Library.)
I recall seeing two pictures at the existing Court: The Wizard of OZ in probably its second re-release and Viva Zapata in its first release.
I was a kid. I don’t know the exact dates.
Glad to hear that the Court may be preserved.