I probably worked with rickradio in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. I started there my junior year in HS at the Sanger Theater, working for Chuck Neff. That was a great theater. Very old with the really steep balcony and elaborate plaster artwork on the ceilings of the lobby and balcony lobby ceiling. Later moved to the “new twin cinema” at Broadmoor working for Don Mohr and later with Joe Matthews. This was just great work to the point it wasn’t really work. I worked with DMs Frank Jones and Danny Smart. I was also sent in to manage and close some of the older theaters starting with the Sanger and later the Zebra Drive In. I really enjoyed the work and had a great time during the addition of the third theater at the Broadmoor Twin Cinemas. I still have a couple of the hats and shirts with the Crest Patch on them. I will keep those for the rest of my days. I later managed the Pines Drive In for several years. Toward the end of that run I had learned to run the carbon/arc projectors at that theater. That theater later closed and they built a grade school there. I often wondered how many kids going to that school may have been conceived on that very property. After relocating to the DFW area in 85 I would up working for General Cinema as a projectionist for 11 ½ years. Again a great job until the phased out the professional projectionists and handed the projection work to the floor staff. It has been great seeing all of the comments. Hopefully if there is anyone from the Pine Bluff area monitoring this blog it would be great to catch up.
I probably worked with rickradio in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. I started there my junior year in HS at the Sanger Theater, working for Chuck Neff. That was a great theater. Very old with the really steep balcony and elaborate plaster artwork on the ceilings of the lobby and balcony lobby ceiling. Later moved to the “new twin cinema” at Broadmoor working for Don Mohr and later with Joe Matthews. This was just great work to the point it wasn’t really work. I worked with DMs Frank Jones and Danny Smart. I was also sent in to manage and close some of the older theaters starting with the Sanger and later the Zebra Drive In. I really enjoyed the work and had a great time during the addition of the third theater at the Broadmoor Twin Cinemas. I still have a couple of the hats and shirts with the Crest Patch on them. I will keep those for the rest of my days. I later managed the Pines Drive In for several years. Toward the end of that run I had learned to run the carbon/arc projectors at that theater. That theater later closed and they built a grade school there. I often wondered how many kids going to that school may have been conceived on that very property. After relocating to the DFW area in 85 I would up working for General Cinema as a projectionist for 11 ½ years. Again a great job until the phased out the professional projectionists and handed the projection work to the floor staff. It has been great seeing all of the comments. Hopefully if there is anyone from the Pine Bluff area monitoring this blog it would be great to catch up.