Maybe David can confirm this. Before listening to the move on your car radio, between parking spaces there were polls with a couple of speakers. You parked, took a speaker off the poll and hung it in your car. I was told that before individual speakers, there were “blast horns” mounted on top of screen at the Sundown.
I remember being told that when the breeze was just right, you could sit on the court square in Paris and listen to the soundtrack of the movie. (According to Google Maps, that’s about 3 miles as the crow flies.)
I worked for Martin Theaters when they sold the property in the early to mid-60s. I helped move the stuff from the Sundown projection booth to the basement of the Capitol Theater. There was nothing left in concession stand, the contents having already been moved or vandalized.
I worked there around the mid-60s when Martin Theaters owned it. Giving away an old green Nash seems VERY familiar. Hated it when they had all-nighters: a bunch of 3rd run movies and I had to keep a picture on the screen until the last car left, or sun came up. Thick fog closed us down “early” a few times. A lot of time spent maintaining speakers for the cars.
Maybe David can confirm this. Before listening to the move on your car radio, between parking spaces there were polls with a couple of speakers. You parked, took a speaker off the poll and hung it in your car. I was told that before individual speakers, there were “blast horns” mounted on top of screen at the Sundown. I remember being told that when the breeze was just right, you could sit on the court square in Paris and listen to the soundtrack of the movie. (According to Google Maps, that’s about 3 miles as the crow flies.) I worked for Martin Theaters when they sold the property in the early to mid-60s. I helped move the stuff from the Sundown projection booth to the basement of the Capitol Theater. There was nothing left in concession stand, the contents having already been moved or vandalized.
I worked there around the mid-60s when Martin Theaters owned it. Giving away an old green Nash seems VERY familiar. Hated it when they had all-nighters: a bunch of 3rd run movies and I had to keep a picture on the screen until the last car left, or sun came up. Thick fog closed us down “early” a few times. A lot of time spent maintaining speakers for the cars.