The prices at most theaters have finally become the breaking point. Too high for most families in a bad economy. Thank goodness for drive-ins and independent theaters who are doing their best to make a trip to the theater affordable.
Some drive-ins store groundskeeping equipment in the screen tower like gasoline powred lawnmowers and weedeaters. It’s possible there may have even been cans of gasoline store in there too.
Apparently only the screen tower is what burned. Projection booths and snack bar are fine. They should be able to have Selby Screen Towers come build them new screens.
Why would anyone pay that much to watch a video in a replica of a living room? Money is tight today and it’s so much cheaper to stay at home and watch videos on your own set WITHOUT commercials.
This is indeed sad. I’ve seen pictures of this nice old theater before.
Too bad. It was a nice old theater.
Demolition by neglect.
The Capitol Theater has been sold to the Olympia Film Society.
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Charlie Chaplin film booking:
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The prices at most theaters have finally become the breaking point. Too high for most families in a bad economy. Thank goodness for drive-ins and independent theaters who are doing their best to make a trip to the theater affordable.
The military base theaters in my area use union projectionists.
Perhaps they could temporarily rent a huge inflatable screen to finish out their season?
Some drive-ins store groundskeeping equipment in the screen tower like gasoline powred lawnmowers and weedeaters. It’s possible there may have even been cans of gasoline store in there too.
Apparently only the screen tower is what burned. Projection booths and snack bar are fine. They should be able to have Selby Screen Towers come build them new screens.
Why would anyone pay that much to watch a video in a replica of a living room? Money is tight today and it’s so much cheaper to stay at home and watch videos on your own set WITHOUT commercials.
The old single screen theater they had in Blythe was the Hub Theater. They also had the Rancho Verde drive in theater.
3D:
Dull
Dopey
Disasterous
They closed the drivein theater so do NOT patronize this new theater.
Is this the theater the late Gary Fine operated in the early 80’s?
Carnival operators beat them to it 30 years ago with the “Cinema 180” attraction.
The City had shut them down for a while because of a lack of fire sprinklers.
Most sign companies that specialize in neon signs can do it. Look in your telephone directory “Yellow Pages” under the heading of “Signs – Neon”.
This is great news! I’ve seen that drive-in before when it was closed. Let’s hope for a great turn out of people. Those admission prices are good.
The Spokane, Washington and nearby Post Falls, Idaho are strangled by the major theater chains. Regal and AMC just kill the little theaters there.
Check out microfilmed copies of the classic “Architectural Record” magazine in your local library.
Architectural Record June 1946 page 131 “Ticket Booth Layouts” (blueprints/measurements are there).
Architectural Record July 1938 page 114 “Ticket Booth Planning” (blueprints & measurements are there).
A crappy movie in 3D is still a crappy movie, but in 3D!
American Cinema Equipment in Portland, Oregon will have everything you need and installation service too. Plus they have a Los Angeles office:
http://www.cinequip.com/
There’s also Cinema Equipment Sales of California:
http://www.cinema-equip.com/home.html
Naturally the first thing new owners do is jack up the rent. Then they wonder where everyone has gone.
Well it looks like they will have to pay the admissions tax:
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