PS. And to the person that said that this was a large venue, I don’t know where you were at, but as a single small theater, it was just a hole in the wall and pretty damn small. BTW, lets think about this back then, guys were doing their business in there and the place smelled like…well you get the idea. If I didn’t work there, I wouldn’t go there.
I don’t see my comments from 2020 so I’ll mention again that I was one of the projectionists and ticket takers at the Flick. As a 22 year old who just came into town, I was looking for a second job and so I worked the midnight shift. I was told that if a cop showed his badge that he got in for free. There was a buzzer on the front door so if I was changing reels, I knew that I had to hustle back down to take a ticket. I was there approximately summer of 71 and it was only a single theater at that time. I know that there was an adult bookstore right next door. I was excited to know that I got to watch all the free porn that I wanted, but it didn’t take long to get really bored watching the same 6 actors doing the same 6 things. And since I worked my regular job during the day and had to work this boring job at night, it was hard to stay awake and every once in awhile I would fall asleep in the projection booth and guys would be banging on the wall and yelling to “change the reel”! because it had run out and was just going round and round. And we showed these same films over and over and they would wear out and of course back then, this was 32mm big reels and I would have to splice the broken film while it was running without getting piles of film all over the floor. Sometimes I would fall asleep and wake up to find that the film have broken and that I had hundreds of feet of film just piling onto the floor. This wasn’t an enjoyable job and I didn’t last long, maybe a couple of months at best, but it is one of those memories that you don’t forget and typically don’t share or brag about.
PS. And to the person that said that this was a large venue, I don’t know where you were at, but as a single small theater, it was just a hole in the wall and pretty damn small. BTW, lets think about this back then, guys were doing their business in there and the place smelled like…well you get the idea. If I didn’t work there, I wouldn’t go there.
I don’t see my comments from 2020 so I’ll mention again that I was one of the projectionists and ticket takers at the Flick. As a 22 year old who just came into town, I was looking for a second job and so I worked the midnight shift. I was told that if a cop showed his badge that he got in for free. There was a buzzer on the front door so if I was changing reels, I knew that I had to hustle back down to take a ticket. I was there approximately summer of 71 and it was only a single theater at that time. I know that there was an adult bookstore right next door. I was excited to know that I got to watch all the free porn that I wanted, but it didn’t take long to get really bored watching the same 6 actors doing the same 6 things. And since I worked my regular job during the day and had to work this boring job at night, it was hard to stay awake and every once in awhile I would fall asleep in the projection booth and guys would be banging on the wall and yelling to “change the reel”! because it had run out and was just going round and round. And we showed these same films over and over and they would wear out and of course back then, this was 32mm big reels and I would have to splice the broken film while it was running without getting piles of film all over the floor. Sometimes I would fall asleep and wake up to find that the film have broken and that I had hundreds of feet of film just piling onto the floor. This wasn’t an enjoyable job and I didn’t last long, maybe a couple of months at best, but it is one of those memories that you don’t forget and typically don’t share or brag about.