While going to college, I got a job at the Rialto in 1961, after about a month they made you assistant mgr. what a great job, hiring the usherettes and candy girls..They outfitted us with brand new tuxedoes and blck patent leather shoes for the evening shift. afterwards we would head up to hollywood and play the role..
I remember it as agreat job..not much money, but lots of benefits. Downtown L.A. in the earl 60’s was still very cosmopolitan, and an exciting place to be..15 years later I brought my wife and 4 kids to L.A. to show them where I worked .we were scared to death walking thru that part of town..but I still loved the old movie houses of Broadway.
While going to college, I got a job at the Rialto in 1961, after about a month they made you assistant mgr. what a great job, hiring the usherettes and candy girls..They outfitted us with brand new tuxedoes and blck patent leather shoes for the evening shift. afterwards we would head up to hollywood and play the role..
I remember it as agreat job..not much money, but lots of benefits. Downtown L.A. in the earl 60’s was still very cosmopolitan, and an exciting place to be..15 years later I brought my wife and 4 kids to L.A. to show them where I worked .we were scared to death walking thru that part of town..but I still loved the old movie houses of Broadway.
Bob Ferguson