I grew up right across the street from the Egyptian Theatre, I remember going to the movies as a little kid and for 25 cents you could watch monster movies all Saturday Afternoon. Later on when I was 15 I worked at the theatre cleaning up, and also learned how to run the arch projectors, I still look for the marks on the screen when I am watch old films; the marks were given in the upper right hand corner on when to switch reels. I have great memories of that theatre, when no one was in the show house and we were cleaning up, some of us would go up on the cat walk at the very top of the show house and have light bulb fights with the burnt out bulbs. In the late 60’s the Egyptian had stage shows on Saturday nights, Ike and Tina Turner, Red Fox all of them played there before they were famous. I also played the drums with some musical groups between acts. It was a sad day when it was torn down.
I grew up right across the street from the Egyptian Theatre, I remember going to the movies as a little kid and for 25 cents you could watch monster movies all Saturday Afternoon. Later on when I was 15 I worked at the theatre cleaning up, and also learned how to run the arch projectors, I still look for the marks on the screen when I am watch old films; the marks were given in the upper right hand corner on when to switch reels. I have great memories of that theatre, when no one was in the show house and we were cleaning up, some of us would go up on the cat walk at the very top of the show house and have light bulb fights with the burnt out bulbs. In the late 60’s the Egyptian had stage shows on Saturday nights, Ike and Tina Turner, Red Fox all of them played there before they were famous. I also played the drums with some musical groups between acts. It was a sad day when it was torn down.