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tjmetz commented about Mark Twain Theatre on Aug 17, 2009 at 1:39 pm

John; wasn’t Sandy his wife’s name ? She was a cashier at Cypress Village. I had a couple of dates with her before she married Ben.

He came to St L from K.C. and thought he was God’s gift to the world.
I was his Asst when CV opened.

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tjmetz commented about Mark Twain Theatre on Jan 1, 2009 at 1:08 pm

Mark Twain was located in St. Louis County (unincorporated) at the corner of Gravois Rd and Lindbergh.

AFter Bob Hockensmith was transferred a new manager was brought in
and I can’t remember his name. I thinks Jim Walker replace me as the Asst. Mgr. This was in 1970.

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tjmetz commented about Mark Twain Theatre on Dec 30, 2008 at 7:57 pm

Wan’t the projectionist first name Ted? He started the same time I did when the theater opened.

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tjmetz commented about Mark Twain Theatre on Sep 21, 2008 at 12:40 am

The original owners of MT and Cv in 1968-1969 was National General
which was owned by Gene Klein who also owned the San Deigo Chargers.

In 1968 2 “Stars of the Future” were Clint Eastwood and Raquel Welch.

Gasoine was .25 cents a gallon and price of admission to MT was 1.00.

The stone on the front of the MT was limestone from Calif.

Locally owned Kreinenkamp Const. Built the MT.

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tjmetz commented about Mark Twain Theatre on Sep 21, 2008 at 12:33 am

Hi I’m Terry Metz. I was an original usher at Mt in 1968, asst manager to Ben Littlefield in 1969,CV and asst manager at MT in 1970.
Bob Hockensmith was the original manager at MT and Loren Boedker was
his asst. One of the original projectionist at MT was Ted Savage.

The best time of my life !