mhg96
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Movies 4on
Jul 29, 2007 at 8:08 pm
I can concur with Stephen Evans since he was my boss in 1991. The theater from I had heard was built as a Plitt Theater in the mid 70’s with the growth in what was south Arlington at the time. After leaving Cinemark in 1992 and graduating High School, I went to college and had some courses in construction and recall that if you looked at the building, the atrium lobby used to be outdoors. You could see that in a previous renovation, the ticket office and the arcade and dollar videos booths was a outdoor covered area. and the aluminum frames that held the glass and doors in place used to run straight through. Also, the concrete under the red and black checkerboard tile was aggregate which means it was not a poured floor which is smooth.
The projectors were never mounted to the floor and some were on wood pallets.
The bathrooms were tiny and when I worked on the weekends a double shift, I would be in the ladies room restocking toilet paper 3-4 times a day.
Number 1 was my favorite auditorium, I recall when we had Die Hard 2 in there and the 747 would explode at the end, you could feel the vibrations.
Also we had to raise the black flap in 1 & 2 to show anamorphic films and us ushers would forget until the patrons would say oh the movie isnt filling up the whole screen and either the projectionist or I would run in and put it up.
I can concur with Stephen Evans since he was my boss in 1991. The theater from I had heard was built as a Plitt Theater in the mid 70’s with the growth in what was south Arlington at the time. After leaving Cinemark in 1992 and graduating High School, I went to college and had some courses in construction and recall that if you looked at the building, the atrium lobby used to be outdoors. You could see that in a previous renovation, the ticket office and the arcade and dollar videos booths was a outdoor covered area. and the aluminum frames that held the glass and doors in place used to run straight through. Also, the concrete under the red and black checkerboard tile was aggregate which means it was not a poured floor which is smooth.
The projectors were never mounted to the floor and some were on wood pallets.
The bathrooms were tiny and when I worked on the weekends a double shift, I would be in the ladies room restocking toilet paper 3-4 times a day.
Number 1 was my favorite auditorium, I recall when we had Die Hard 2 in there and the 747 would explode at the end, you could feel the vibrations.
Also we had to raise the black flap in 1 & 2 to show anamorphic films and us ushers would forget until the patrons would say oh the movie isnt filling up the whole screen and either the projectionist or I would run in and put it up.