Melrose Theatre
2600 Franklin Road,
Nashville,
TN
37204
2600 Franklin Road,
Nashville,
TN
37204
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The Melrose Theatre opened in 1942. Although it is almost identical to the Belle Meade Theatre, the Melrose Theatre never attained the respect and reverence bestowed upon its twin sibling. Hopefully, that might change soon. With the Belle Meade Theatre slated to become a grocery store and upscale developers eyeing the Melrose shopping centre, maybe some benevolent enterprise or theatre chain (say Landmark) could restore the theatre to the status the Belle Meade Theatre enjoyed during it’s heyday.
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Jack Coursey
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Well Mike I do not know about other cities or chains but in Nashville we had to pay the operators there full time even if we did not have the last show or not and all the other employees got off early anyway and the Managers were on salary,so in other words there was not that much money lost except for the box office receipts.We did have a few snow nights that no one came to either shows in the suburb theatres.$0 receipts for the night.
But you never walked in a theatre with six moviegoers and ask them to leave on the last show,even with movie passes in your hand.Chuck mentioned it was commom practice in other chains and other cities,Frankly.I had never heard of such a thing.and there were plenty of nights I thought about it,but never would have offered passes to come back another night.And what if they came back on a wednesday,another slow night at 9:30 pm.Oh well, you learn something new even when out of the business.
I sent Nick a ton of Theatre pictures for CT.He said he wanted them,he got them.
Tisloews. give me names of all the theatres you worked, i would like to add them to my Favorites,i have Melrose and Crescent.
Loews Madison is listed as Madison Square Theatre.
Thanks,I thought you worked in Texas too?
No I had the chance to open the Loews Park Central a new quad in Dallas in 1977,but turned them down to stay in Nashville.That theatre is already gone also.
Yeah, i don’t blame you even then the theatre business could be fickled,Move out there and end up moving back when you get a “pain the Butt D.M.”.
Well both theatres did have the same D.V.I just did not want to move to Dallas.I did get promoted to Manager of this theatre about a year later.So they did not give up on me.
I had chances to manage,but as much as I loved the Business I had Bills to pay,moving to Athens for several months was enough,sorta find out real quick there is no family there if problems arise with say, your car and living off 99 cent Kroger pizzas after work got real old soon.Even with bonuses for selling discount tickets,it still wasn’t enough,being an Electrican pays alot better.But I often thought I should have moved to Columbia,S.C. which is certainly no Dallas and worked a Columbia MAll GCC i would have ended up somewhere in our circuit or divison.They never gave up on me either, when they see two theatre guys like us come up through the ranks you know plans are already being made down the road.At least a good manager should spot it I would think.