The “Kick It Around Sports” building is, indeed, the olde Lincoln Theater although a new facade has been added. The theatre was a narrow and long buildidng and I spend many a Saturday matinee there as a pre-teen back in the war years.
Shotech
Mike Rogers is absolutely right and bigger is not always better. At The Nortown I had something like 30 people working and I got to know all of them and appreciate them for who they were. Some of the multiplexes, nowadays, try but big is not always better.
I work as projectionist at the Flint Institute of Arts in a change-over booth and we have an open door policy for comment and merely curious. Great way to get to know people.
Frank A. Phillips, Nortown Theater, Cinema Hollywood and Flint Institute of Arts
I was manager of the Nortown from, approx 1949 thru 1956, when the original owner died.My years there were some of the best because of the people working with and for me. Sadly, many are deceased but I have often wondered if any survivors, out there, might be interested in communicating or getting together for a dinner or pizza?
I am now eighty years olde and would like to relive some olde memories with you and swap some scuttlebutt.
Sincerely
Frank A. Phillips, former manager, Nortown Theater/Flint, Michigan
The “Kick It Around Sports” building is, indeed, the olde Lincoln Theater although a new facade has been added. The theatre was a narrow and long buildidng and I spend many a Saturday matinee there as a pre-teen back in the war years. Shotech
Mike Rogers is absolutely right and bigger is not always better. At The Nortown I had something like 30 people working and I got to know all of them and appreciate them for who they were. Some of the multiplexes, nowadays, try but big is not always better.
I work as projectionist at the Flint Institute of Arts in a change-over booth and we have an open door policy for comment and merely curious. Great way to get to know people.
Frank A. Phillips, Nortown Theater, Cinema Hollywood and Flint Institute of Arts
I was manager of the Nortown from, approx 1949 thru 1956, when the original owner died.My years there were some of the best because of the people working with and for me. Sadly, many are deceased but I have often wondered if any survivors, out there, might be interested in communicating or getting together for a dinner or pizza?
I am now eighty years olde and would like to relive some olde memories with you and swap some scuttlebutt.
Sincerely
Frank A. Phillips, former manager, Nortown Theater/Flint, Michigan