I was an usher at the Beverly for most of 1948 and a parking lot attendant throughout 1949 and into 1950, a promotion that got me a raise from 35 cents an hour to 45 cents. The manager was Ray Kenney, a decent guy but deathly afraid of the owner, Jim Coston. The names I remember were Brady (assistant manager), DePaul (head usher) and his brother, the Hennessey brothers, Leo and Bernie, the Cummings brothers, and the candy-counter girl, Betty Hallstein. We had a good softball team in the (unofficial) Warner Brothers theater league. Lots of good memories. My family attended movies at the Beverly from its opening until a year before it closed. Larry Smith
I was an usher at the Beverly for most of 1948 and a parking lot attendant throughout 1949 and into 1950, a promotion that got me a raise from 35 cents an hour to 45 cents. The manager was Ray Kenney, a decent guy but deathly afraid of the owner, Jim Coston. The names I remember were Brady (assistant manager), DePaul (head usher) and his brother, the Hennessey brothers, Leo and Bernie, the Cummings brothers, and the candy-counter girl, Betty Hallstein. We had a good softball team in the (unofficial) Warner Brothers theater league. Lots of good memories. My family attended movies at the Beverly from its opening until a year before it closed. Larry Smith