Hey Paul,
Fun reading your comments. Hope everything still good for you. Missed you at CinemaCon this past spring.
Meant to tell you that I came close to working at Disney back in the 70’s. Ludwig was the VP-GSM if memory serves me correctly. His daughter was in marketing and the offer made to me back then was also in the marketing department.
In retrospect I’m glad I didn’t take Disney’s offer since a house cleaning was made about half a year later with most of the Disney family management blown out.
It would probably had been a short career with the Mouse House.
Ironically a similar situation occured when UA bought out Commonwealth. At the end it was just Ytell, his secretary and myself left at 215 West 18th Street.
Before they finally said bye, bye and handed me a check they offered to move me to either Denver or L.A.
I turned that offer down as well. And once again I was in luck because most of the UA brass disappeared a short time later…..
I too worked for Commonwealth. First as a manager in Grand Island, Junction City, and Great Bend, Ks.
Then later (for 2o some years) as Director of Marketing in the K.C. home office.
Never made much money there but enjoyed working at Commonwealth. Good company!
FYI: Film booker-buyer Hal McClure passed away this past summer in K.C. :(
With best wishes—Jack Poessiger.
Hey Paul, Fun reading your comments. Hope everything still good for you. Missed you at CinemaCon this past spring. Meant to tell you that I came close to working at Disney back in the 70’s. Ludwig was the VP-GSM if memory serves me correctly. His daughter was in marketing and the offer made to me back then was also in the marketing department. In retrospect I’m glad I didn’t take Disney’s offer since a house cleaning was made about half a year later with most of the Disney family management blown out. It would probably had been a short career with the Mouse House. Ironically a similar situation occured when UA bought out Commonwealth. At the end it was just Ytell, his secretary and myself left at 215 West 18th Street. Before they finally said bye, bye and handed me a check they offered to move me to either Denver or L.A. I turned that offer down as well. And once again I was in luck because most of the UA brass disappeared a short time later…..
All the best,
Jack Poessiger
I too worked for Commonwealth. First as a manager in Grand Island, Junction City, and Great Bend, Ks.
Then later (for 2o some years) as Director of Marketing in the K.C. home office.
Never made much money there but enjoyed working at Commonwealth. Good company!
FYI: Film booker-buyer Hal McClure passed away this past summer in K.C. :(
With best wishes—Jack Poessiger.