Hi Simon…just went back and read some of your other comments…and remembered having the job of selling tickets at the bottom of the Loge stairs…it seems also that the worst job (apart from picking up the seats after the last show, you know how many that is, and turning in all the lost items) was the Coat Check Room in the lower lounge…or maybe they had turned that into something else…Did they still have the really cool job of giving you a pass to all the other theaters to check their “house numbers”…I did tend to linger at the Paramount. Our favorite hangout after hours was the “Gaslight” on 6th ave and the Greek resturant opposite the stage doorr
I worked as an usher at the Roxy Theater in 1950/1951. I have many memories I thought I would share some. The staff entrance was on 50th street and we shared the elevator with the people from 20th century fox that had an office on the 5th floor, then inspection outside the balcony elevator by Captains (Banovich or Carpenter). The best job…running the backstage elevator and the Rainbow Ice Stage skaters, Jack Allen, Phil Romane, Caty Steele…but watch out for the Balls after the “Walking Ball” number…Mindy Carso singing in the fake snow at the Christmas show…my friend Stan Dymick and I getting suspended for that wild party we had in the Taft Hotel. But most of all the Theater itself…
Hi Simon…just went back and read some of your other comments…and remembered having the job of selling tickets at the bottom of the Loge stairs…it seems also that the worst job (apart from picking up the seats after the last show, you know how many that is, and turning in all the lost items) was the Coat Check Room in the lower lounge…or maybe they had turned that into something else…Did they still have the really cool job of giving you a pass to all the other theaters to check their “house numbers”…I did tend to linger at the Paramount. Our favorite hangout after hours was the “Gaslight” on 6th ave and the Greek resturant opposite the stage doorr
I worked as an usher at the Roxy Theater in 1950/1951. I have many memories I thought I would share some. The staff entrance was on 50th street and we shared the elevator with the people from 20th century fox that had an office on the 5th floor, then inspection outside the balcony elevator by Captains (Banovich or Carpenter). The best job…running the backstage elevator and the Rainbow Ice Stage skaters, Jack Allen, Phil Romane, Caty Steele…but watch out for the Balls after the “Walking Ball” number…Mindy Carso singing in the fake snow at the Christmas show…my friend Stan Dymick and I getting suspended for that wild party we had in the Taft Hotel. But most of all the Theater itself…