Hollywood Theatre

I worked at this theatre in the early 70's. It was nice to see that the marquee. However the ceiling light bulbs used to go back a lot farther. When National General sold it to Mann's they remodeled and tore out a stand alone box office and enclosed all that area into a lobby.

Mann theatres did a quick remodel to this theatre in June of 1977. Down the street at the Chinese theatre a little film opened, around the 3rd week of May. Mann theatres booked this film as a filler before the big summer film from Universal "Sorcerer" opened. So on that 3rd week of May, "Star Wars" opened to blockbuster business at the Chinese and the Avco in Westwood (note: only two theatres). The only Mann theatre near the Chinese, was the Hollywood . So Mann did a quick remodel. With this remodel they enclosed the lobby and torn out the old box office and added 70mm projection equipment and a Dolby 6 track Stereo Sound System. So they could move-over "Star Wars" for the 5 to 6 weeks booking of "Sorcerer" in the Chinese. But "Sorcerer" did not do the business, it had hoped for, it bombed. So Mann moved "Star Wars " back to the Chinese for the rest of the run. But 20th Century Fox did not like, Mann moving "Star Wars" into a smaller house (half the size of the Chinese [1400 vs. 750]. Fox would start a battle that would last over 15 years. No Big Fox feature would play a Mann theatre. So in Hollywood, The Egyptian would be the Fox showcase house and in Westwood the UA and Avco theatres would be the showcase houses. Around this time General Cinemas closed the Beverly theatre in Beverly Hills. They moved some of the stage speakers to the Avco for "Star Wars".

The Hollywood Theatre got a remodel in 1927 and another remodel by S. Charles Lee in 1936 and would stay like that till it's final remodel in 1977. Before closing in the early 90's to become the Guinness Book of World Records.

The Hollywood is the oldest existing movie theatre in Hollywood. Its owner H.L. Lewis, had it built in the popular Romanesque style. Architects Kremple and Erkes face the building's facade in white semi-glazed brick and the lobby was done in marble tile. The 750 seat auditorium had coffered ceilings supported by Corinthian columns. The facade was remodeled 1936 by architects S. Charles Lee and Clifford Balch into a combination of Moderne and Art Deco styles. In 1991 it was remodeled into the Guiness World of Records exhibition, ending its life as a movie theatre.

The theatres address is 6764 Hollywood Blvd..

It used to be a bear getting into the projection room. You had to slide around a beam to get into it.

Wondering if this is the theatre that had the dollar movies in the 70's. I went to college at Immaculate Heart College in Hollywood (no longer there now) in 1971 and remember attending a theatre inexpensively once in awhile to break the monotony of working full time and going to school full time. I only lived there for less than a year, transferring to a Kansas college, so didn't remember the name of the theatre, but this looks like what I remember.

I went to this theater about 5 years ago (as the Guiness Museum of course). I don't remember what if any ornamentation of the interior survive the conversion, if anything.
Does anything of the interior survive? Was it gutted or just covered if it is not visable?

Not much was left after Mann Theatres did the conversion back in 1977 to move-over "Star Wars" from the Chinese. And when they did the conversion to become the museum. All that left is the marquee.
The real budget houses on Hollywood Blvd. were the World Theatre, New View (Ritz), Vine. The Hollywood Theatre did do a grind house policy during the 70's., when it was part of the National General chain.

This place has memories for me because I saw "Star Wars" here for the very first time, during it's brief, controversial move-over engagement. The 70mm six-track Dolby Stereo sound was impressive. In 1982, "Blade Runner" opened here, also in 70mm.

my friends and I worked at the theater during the late sixties and throughout most of the seventies. I remember working till close at 5 in the morning;the blvd. regulars; the drug scene; the hidden room above the stage; the friends ;the managers; the old ticket booth;watching the christmas parade from atop the roof;looking for wallets between the seats after we closed;the metal light fixtures that hung on the walls going down the aisles were with red bulbs for warmth in the winter and blue in the summer

Here is the Hollywood playing Chariots of Fire.

http://community.webshots.com/photo/26283126OEQPZdMFqR

Thanks for the picture of the theatre during the early eighties.Anyone have ANY pictures-either inside or outside the theatre during the late sixties or early seventies?

The Hollywood was a kind of dumpy picture show while I lived there in 1953/55, but was open all night. I saw "On the waterfront" in 1954/5 after working the 2nd shift at a Standerd Station nearby.
Of all the shows on the blvd, it was the last choice for second run pictures. However further down the street was a late nighter called the "News-View" that only showed news reels. Later in 1953 because of of up and coming television competition it started to show 3rd rate movies and I noticed a change in the name by dropping the "S" and the dash to read "New View".At the time I thought it was very clever.

Most of my ads are from New York but here is one from an American International double bill playing the Hollywood.

http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a13/ChmnofBrd/SpiderTerrorFromYear5000-Hollywood.jpg

Older color photo of the box office and entrance of the Hollywood Theatre.
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y147/Chuck1231/California%20Theatres/California%20Theatres%20Two/HollywoodTheatreBoxOfficeEntranceHo.jpg

A Wurlitzer organ Opus 697 Style 215SP was installed in the Hollywood Theater on 9/10/1923.

A great pic here
http://www.hollywoodphotographs.com/detail.asp?im=%2D1&cat=43&offset=112&ID=4183

A great pic here
http://www.hollywoodphotographs.com/detail.asp?im=%2D1&cat=43&offset=112&ID=4183
http://www.hollywoodphotographs.com/detail.asp?im=%2D1&cat=43&offset=112&ID=5092

A great pic here
http://www.hollywoodphotographs.com/detail.asp?im=%2D1&cat=43&offset=112&ID=4183
http://www.hollywoodphotographs.com/detail.asp?im=%2D1&cat=43&offset=112&ID=5092

Thanks for the pictures of the theatre Robert. Since my friends and I worked there for quite a while,we look forward to spotting a familar face or two or perhaps a faded memory.

1938, from the LA Library:

http://jpg2.lapl.org/theater1/00014704.jpg

Open all night (or nite):
www.i8.photobucket.com/albums/a18/Warrengwhiz/hollyblvd.jpg

The other two "budget" theaters on the boulevard that no one has mentioned were the Admiral and the Academy, both on the north side of the street close to Vine (one is still there and goes by the name The Vine). If you want to see the Hollywood in all its 70s glory, rent the DVD of The First Nudie Musical and watch the musical number, The Lights and The Smiles, part of which was shot outside the Hollywood (you also get a great view of The Pix, which was across from the Pantages.

The Admiral is listed as the Vine Theatre and the Academy is listed as the Holly Theatre on this site.

Thanks - I'll look them up now.

Isn't this the theater depicted in Speilberg's "1941" where General Stilwell watches "Dumbo" while the USO/Zoot Suit riot goes on outside on Hollywood Blvd? Columbia and Universal spent millions reconstructing a stretch of Hollywood Blvd (both in full scale and minature) for this movie and I seem to recall the marquee from the film looking very much like the one depicted in images on this page - although I believe artistic license was taken in creating the full scale exterior sets.

I was going to write that the Aykroyd character and his tank crew in the movie blow the hell out of the marquee, but I think its the USO marquee across the street that gets shot up not the Hollywood marquee.

Robert, thanks for posting those historic photos. It's amazing how well intact the outside remains of the Hollywood. Unfortunately, inside is lost.

Minor point here, but I was mistaken about the theater in "1941". While it might have been based on the Hollywood, the fictitious theater is called the Hollywood State in the film.

Ed
The marquee in the film was an old style one, not like the Hollywood's current one. The theatre exterior in the film was one of the studio's backlot theatre fronts and the interior shots where shot at the Los Angeles Theatre in Downtown Los Angeles.

My friend Julie worked here in 1969 after we graduated from high school. We both worked at Fox Theater as well. Sometimes we'd work as "loan out's from the Fox. I remember this theater. See my post at Fox Theater Hollywood. After working one summer at Fox, I enrolled at Hollywood College of Beauty down the street. Hollywood Blvd. back then was great fun and also dangerous at the same time. I left Hollywood at age 20. Does anyone remember Julie? Please respond on this post. Julie died in the late 70's. I found out a few years ago.

Pine:-- It's been along time since I worked at the theater. Do you remember my best friend Bruce who worked at the theater as well? Dave James was the manager and one of my closest friends as well. Dave passed away a couple of years ago. I'm sure I would remember alot of the people I worked with at the theater over the years back in the day; Maybe not their names ,but the faces are forever imprinted upon my brain. Everyone around the Boulevard knew me.

What is your name? Julie and I worked mostly at the Fox Theater but Julie would also often work at this theater. I remember working here one night to help out. Julie worked as a cashier. I worked as a candy girl. I remember Dave James. How did he die? I remember one of his friends who had blond hair. I also remember Dave's wife. Julie worked at a small wig/clothing store on Hollywood Blvd. near Highland and near this theater. She did this in her senior year of high school. The men from the wig store were bad. Julie loved everone good or bad. She would often buy popcorn and sodas for poor people who all knew her because she'd help them out. She and another friend from Fox got into taking drugs. I wrote her a letter when I started beauty school telling her that I no longer wanted to be her friend. At that time she had just met Art Leboe, the famous D.J. who had the radio station "oldies but goodies." I didn't meet him back then, only heard about him thru Julie. I heard recently that she lived with him for a couple of years.

continued: Her parents moved from Hollywood to Santa Monica and then to Newport Beach. She died in the late 1970's, after falling off of her horse. She was in a coma and her parents removed life support. I didn't know this all these years, only finding out recently. The weird thing about all of this is that back in 1980 my husband and I liked to eat lunch occasionally at a Mexican restaurant on the top floor of a hotel in Santa Monica. I knew that Julie moved to Santa Monica but didn't know that she moved to New Port Beach. I stopped in the lobby of the hotel to look up her last name in the phone book. I couldn't remember her parents first names, and put down the phone book, turned around and looked at the front lobby door. In walked Julie. I was so shocked I couldn't speak. She walked past me, and the funny thing about all of this was that she looked exaclty the same as she did in high school. Same dress, same shoes, same hair and she was carrying school folders and a notebook.
She went into an elevator.

continued. I went into the elevator and checked each floor as it was a small hotel and didn't see her.I realize now that I saw Julie's spirit!

I have a question, here's an aerial view of the Hollywood. When looking at the aerial image, the building with the Hollywood marquee appears to be a low building, and attached, actually on Highland Ave, appears to be a large theater building with windows knocked into it. I have never been in the Hollywood when it was still a theater, is this the case. Is that large building the actual auditorium, perpendicular to the old lobby area?

http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=pph5m6544n56&style=o&lvl=2&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000&scene=3596899

Bwy, The Hollywood Theatre was just like the picture shows, a low building. The building on Highland in question is not a theatre and was never a theatre. It's the Max Factor make-up building.

Thanks! That's what I thought, but got confused when I looked at the aerial photo. So the Hollywood wasn't all that big of a theater it appears.

The Hollywood Theatre was just standard size theatre when it opened in 1919. The first big house was the Egyptian Theatre in 1922 on Hollywood Blvd.. Over the years the theatre lost much of its past decor through remodels. The final remodel was done in June of 1977, for the move-over of Star Wars from the Chinese Theatre.

Thanks. I went to the Guiness Museum some years back, before I even realized it was a theater....but don't remember ANY theater ornamentation inside, but that could be because I really wasn't looking either. But if it was blantant, I would have noticed it.

Status should be closed.

Here is another 1938 photo from the LAPL:
http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics28/00063858.jpg

I don't think they use the word "closed" unless the building sits empty. The building is very much open and in use, just not as a theater....

No, the status is closed if it's no longer being used as a theater.

At night,
http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k79/hollywood90038/hwdhollywoodtheaterJune22007001.jpg

At night:
http://i243.photobucket.com/albums/ff204/hollywood90038/HollywoodTheaterJan292008ct.jpg

Here is a photo taken today:
http://tinyurl.com/yqvw9s

Hollywood, welcome back. Please post more of your unique and fascinating collection, on this and other pages.

Here is a night shot from yesterdayla.com:
http://tinyurl.com/bb9lz

All that beautiful neon. Sigh.

Across the street you can see the signs for Pickwick Books and the Vogue.

Here is another photo from the LAPL, circa late 30s:
http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics45/00072159.jpg

You can see the Vog of the Vogue's vertical sign in that picture.

Here are some October 2008 photos:
http://tinyurl.com/4pcvmr
http://tinyurl.com/4pk8dj
http://tinyurl.com/3whgf6
http://tinyurl.com/4pgkyn

Here is a photo taken last night:
http://tinyurl.com/6paevy

The date given for this photo is April 1951.

Here is a photo of the former Hollywood Theatre taken last week.

I worked at the Hollywood theater in 1957 and 1960. Mr. Bill Quann was the manager. He had worked at the studios until he retired to manage the theater. He always was dressed in a suit and parked his car in the parking space at the curb. Kathy McRae was the theater cashier. She was a theater cashier in Hollywod until she passed away. Victor Bugliosi was the night manager. He is the brother of Vincent Bugliosi who prosecuted Charles Manson. I worked nights. We had double features. A first run with a B feature. Many clebrities came to the theater after the Sunset clubs closed. Coffee Dan's was located next door. It had an all gay clientel after the gay bars closed. It was exciting to work there. It was a Fox West Coast theater at that time and later Mann's took it over.

Addendum: There was no air-conditioning at the theater in those days. At night we went up on the roof to open it up so the cool California air could be drawn into the theater by the fans. Sagedy was an usher. He worked there the two years I had. I heard he later became a teacher.Bob was the assistant manager. I have forgotten his last name? He was in his fifties and a real nice, but secretive, guy. Rocky changed the marquee until the studios made up special marquees for the films. Kelly was the projectionist. It was half Fox West Coast and half co-owned. Gangster Mickey Cohen came in one time. I was approched by two suits who asked "Where did he go?" I didn't know whom they were looking for. Mickey had walked down the aisle and out the rear exit.

Thanks for your information! Very interesting. See my posts above.
I went to Coffee Dan's often when I was a student at HHS, mid to late 1960's, and remember the gay hangouts nearby with the guys in drag.

You can see Coffee Dan's in the photo posted on 4/1/08.

1960's.Thanks for the Coffee Dan's photo! It brings back many memories, of 10 cent donuts and 10 cent coffee. Other notables - the drug store across the street, also on Highland that had a soda fountain. One could buy mascara then sit at the soda fountain and order ice cream. A used record store west of here, and my favorite place buying 10 cent pairs of shoes and other great finds from the 1940's, at the Thrift stores on Western Avenue. Those were the days when I could have fun for a whole day with one dollar including bus fare.

Mr. Quann told me Marjorie Main came by the theater when a "Ma & Pa Kettle" movie was showing. She asked Mr. Quann if she could go in just to see her part? Jayne Mansfield phoned to see if her and Mickey Hargitay could get in free to see "WILL SUCCESS SPOIL ROCK HUNTER," that she starred in. The New York baseball team had moved to Los Angeles. The team came by bus and they sat in a row about ten rows behind Jayne. They were yelling at her on the screen and was unaware she was sitting in front of them. Johnny (Tarzan) Weismuller used to come and sit in the lobby talking with Mr. Quann. Howard Hughes sent a motorcycle to pick up reels of "THE THREE FACES OF EVE" as they came off the projector. Then the cyclist would return it when he viewed it at home. He paid the manager and the projectionist.

The doorman that took my place was called "Slim." He later was doorman at the FOX down the street. Mr. Quann had finally bought me a doorman's uniform. Slim wore it after I left. It was rather short in the pants for him. Slim wanted to be in the movies. He studied acting, dancing, etc. He just didn't have any talent. After he retired he moved to another state. One woman came into the theater with three kids. She wanted to sleep in the theater. Bugliosi asked her what she was doing in Hollywood? She said she came to get into movies. Jack Chaplain was an usher before he was contracted with Nick Adams for the REBEL TV show. He too slept in the theatre. I was Nick's secretary before he had the REBEL series. I worked nights at the theater and answered his fanmail days.

Unknown to the general public, the police had installed a two way mirror in the men's room. They would go into the projection booth on the other side to try to catch gay guys putting the make on guys. Bugliosi said there were several bloody fights that took place. The New View theatre later the Pussycat down the street, also had a two way mirror installed so the Vice could catch any gay activity that took place. This Hollywood Vice harassment is what created West Hollywood as the gay center of Los Angeles. The Sheriff's department was more lenient. Today, the downtown Los Angeles theaters, are the cruising places.

The Admiral theater was a few blocks west of the Vine. They had a long run on CALIGULA with Peter O'Toole. It was considered as a Roadshow engagement. I don't recall if the Academy is now the Vine, or if it has always been the Vine. The Vine/Academy is where Nick Adams worked as a doorman. He was fired when he put his name on the marquee as an actor in the film that was playing there at that time. The HAWAII theater was down the Boulevard past the Pantages. It had a large auditorium. It was later bought and set up with two screens playing adult films. I believe it is now a warehouse. I moved from Hollywood in 2005.

The adult CAVE is now an adult theater. They used to show x-rated films, and maybe still do. Before that, years ago, it was a nightclub, called SARDI's, like the famous one in New York. I saw THE TRENIERS there in person. The CAVE is located close to the Vine theater with another adult business next door.

I worked with Slim the doorman when he was at the Fox Theater. I started in the summer of 1969 after graduating high school and on and off through 1971 while also attending Hollywood College of Beauty down the street. I guessed that Slim wanted to be an actor but never talked to him about it. Every day he ordered a Babe Ruth Candy Bar and Dr. Pepper. He reminded me of Roy Rogers. I worried about his health. He was kind and pleasant and liked his job. I loved this job too, and would have stayed but the pay was only $1.65 an hour with part time hours.

Mr. Duff was manager of the Fox, and Dave James manager of Hollywood Theater. One day one of Mr. Duff's friends, a local Blvd. alcoholic type, came in to see a movie. Mr. Duff let him in, and later two young women came out and complained about a man showing his private parts. Mr. Duff went in and they pointed to Mr. Duff's friend! That was embarrassing! Mr. Duff had connections with Hollywood P.D. and if a young man needed a job they would call Mr. Duff who was always willing to help out, but the young men never stayed. They'd get in trouble again. I don't recall any gay activity at either theater when I was there.

Mr. Duff was a strict manager. Not one crumb could be found on the floor and not a smudge mark on the candy counter or glass doors. Toes had to be covered, no sandals were allowed. The Fox had checkers, people who would come in and check up on everyone and everything then write up a report. One day Mr. Duff said I got a bad report for talking to another candy girl while on duty. That is why I never talked to Slim. Dave James, manager of this theater, was wild and crazy in comparison. My friend Julie liked him, but I had no respect for the guy.

When Dave James left the Hollywood he was transferred to Westwood. I went there a couple of times to see him. Carol Burnette was also an usher at the FOX! I never owned a car then. I was 19 years old. I lived on Orchid Ave. by Grauman's. My single at the Commodore Gardens (now a hotel) was $24.50 a week. Food budget was $7.50 weekly on a pay check for $40.00. Maid service daily and towels changed weekly. I was happier then, than I am now. Charlton Heston lived there three years before me, in a one bedroom. There were no tall buildings in Hollywood in those days. Capitol Records was the newest that opened when I first moved there. A wonderful Italian Restaurant was next door to the Hollywood. And a hotdog stand later by the parking lot.

The Hollywood theater was a successful, although small, theater. I recall lines around the corner on Highland on weekends. Actor, Tommy Kirk, (OLD YELLER) was going to Hollywood High and he used to cruise the theater-smile! Elvis came there, Natalie Wood, Nick Adams, Fred Astaire, Jack Lemmon with his son, Jayne Mansfield and Mickey Hargitay, Joey Bishop, who loved horror films, James McArthur, David Nelson, and too many to list here. I am listed at www.Zimbio.com/who is bill-dakota? My manuscript of my life. The main projectionist at the Hollywood was Kelly who was related to the partner/owner with Fox West Coast theaters. He was best. The other ones needed glasses, I guess.

The post on Zimbio has to read www.Zimbio.com/bill-dakota

I worked at Grauman's as a candy girl, a few times as a loan out from Fox. On those days. Mr. Duff would watch the concession stand. He was nice to all the other theater managers. I remember getting $46.00 a week. I didn't own a car either and took the city bus. My dad was a musician but never made it and worked as a barber. Yes, those were the happiest days of my life too.

One of my poems about Hollywood.

BUS STOP
Sitting here waiting at this bus stop.
Thinking of how it’s gonna be.
Looking at faces of the drivers,
Driving by and looking at me.
My heart is aching deep inside me.
My heart is aching for a dream.
I’m sitting here waiting at this bus stop.
Thinking of how it’s gonna be.

I wanna be free
Free, free, free
I wanna be free
Free, free, free

I’ll be sixteen on my birthday
Not too old to wanna be.
I’m still sitting at this bus stop
Thinking of how it’s gonna be.
I’m taking bus that takes me nowhere.
What I want to be is free.
The place I want is somewhere out there.
I’ll just have to wait and see.

I wanna be free
Free, free, free
I wanna be free
Free, free, free

Two more years and I’ll be eighteen
Two more years and I’ll be free.
Time goes slow when you’re just sixteen
Being patient is the only key.
Now I’m 30 and I’m driving.
Passed a boy who looks like me.
Sitting there pretty at that bus stop
He has to be sixteen.

He wanna be free
Free, free, free
He wanna be free,

"Caligula" played the Holly Theatre (also known as the Academy), not the Vine Theatre. The SRO chain four-walled the Holly Theatre for that engagement.

I get the Academy and The Admiral mixed up. I never went to either one very often, if ever. Being a theater employee I got free passes to all of the Fox West Coast theaters on my days off. I think the Paramount was downtown across from Pershing Square. James Dean's wrecked Porsche was in front for the James Dean Story. It was roped off and people could get close enough to see the blood stains. Someone later stole the car when it was being transferred to another venue. Rumor is that is was crushed up and made into a coffee table. I wish I had lived in Los Angeles during the forties. Seems like it was a very nice and exciting place to be. I guess certain sections have already been built with new theaters, apartments, etc.

Yes, the Paramount was located across from Pershing Square. My dad told me about his Porsche display there.

Vampira, Maila Nurmi, who died last year, said she had snipped a
piece of the paint off of it.

The blond haired guy in the last scene of GIANT driving a sports car, looking over at Hudson's daughter in their car, claimed he had one of the rear tail lights. He also had owned Hitler's Touring Car, A real collector-smile!

Bob Pierce was the assistant manager at the Hollywood when I worked there. He was a wonderful person, a batchelor and sort of secretive. He wore biker type of boots with his dress pants and sports coat. He would often tell funny stories to all of us. I go into detail about the Hollywood Theater, Hollywood itself, and Grauman's in my manuscript. It is too lengthy to review it here. The following are articles related to these two theaters and Hollywood in 1957.
http://the-gossip-columnist-17.blogspot.com
http://the-gossip-columnist-16.blogspot.com
http://the-gossip-columnist-13.blogspot.com

Here is a 1980 photo, pre-Guinness:
http://tinyurl.com/cj97cu

Here is a 1936 photo:
http://sclee.library.ucla.edu/003/09/i0030901.jpg

Here's the Hollywood in 1980:

http://americanclassicimages.com/Default.aspx?tabid=141&txtSearch=hollywood+theater&catpageindex=4&ProductID=23841

Here is a 1939 night shot from the USC library:
http://tinyurl.com/c569pz

It is a night shot.

That is a beautiful photo! And it appears, traffic was just as dreadful on Hollywood Blvd in 1939 as it is today!

Take Sunset instead.

Here is another Christmas photo from 1945:
http://tinyurl.com/d2wlkf

A British company is selling this poster online:
http://tinyurl.com/d2ka46

A view of the sign - http://www.flickr.com/photos/cakeight/2855030104/

Thank you for the poster information. I went to the site and saw the photo of the Hollywood. It looks great. I emailed them for the size and cost. Although it is quite a few years before I worked there, the marquee looks great and brings back memories of the fun days of my youth when I worked there. Can't wait to frame it on my wall.

Here is a photo taken yesterday:
http://tinyurl.com/pe3gcv

Here is an April 1977 LA Times ad:
http://tinyurl.com/n67omb

I received the poster mentioned above. I want to thank Ken mc. It is one of the best posters I have ever seen or bought. Not a flimsy thin one sheet, but a roll up that has no wrinkles and looks wonderful in a Wal-Mart frame. It is so clear and it brings back my memories of when I worked there. The marquee has two titles from the forties and I worked there in the latter '50's. I just stand and stare at it and dream. It is so life like, unbelievable. It's the most wonderful picture that I have. I wish you knew how much it means to me to have the poster, especially now that it is no longer a theater. I remember having to clean the soffet. Mr. Quann paid me extra and it took several days cleaning around all those light bulbs. Those were the best years of my life.

Glad I could help.