This theater was actually my first job. I ended up being a manager there and was there the day we shut it down. The theater was initially Cineplex Odeon when I started working there, eventually Sony bought the theater and we were called “Lowes Cineplex”. After a few months Sony started building their Metreon theater in S.F and they announced they were closing the Hilltop theater.
As far as nightly deposits we did not have to walk outside of the mall. We would call the mall security office and let them know “This is theaters 1-4 is it ok to do the drop”, they would tell us yes, and we would walk through the mall and drop the deposit into a Bank of America deposit box. On Sunday’s the mall would put up the gate because the mall closed at 6 and they didnt want people in the mall so we would have security come after we got everyone out and they would come open the gate for us.
We did have a projectionist for a while but eventually the managers we just started running the films.
This theater was actually my first job. I ended up being a manager there and was there the day we shut it down. The theater was initially Cineplex Odeon when I started working there, eventually Sony bought the theater and we were called “Lowes Cineplex”. After a few months Sony started building their Metreon theater in S.F and they announced they were closing the Hilltop theater.
As far as nightly deposits we did not have to walk outside of the mall. We would call the mall security office and let them know “This is theaters 1-4 is it ok to do the drop”, they would tell us yes, and we would walk through the mall and drop the deposit into a Bank of America deposit box. On Sunday’s the mall would put up the gate because the mall closed at 6 and they didnt want people in the mall so we would have security come after we got everyone out and they would come open the gate for us.
We did have a projectionist for a while but eventually the managers we just started running the films.