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Jesse Skeen
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1517
From: Sacramento, CA
Registered: Aug 2000

posted 10-07-2000 08:43 PM

There's places in California that could use you too, if that's not too far to go.

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Kevin Crawford
Expert Film Handler

Posts: 207
From: Sacramento, CA, USA
Registered: May 2000

posted 10-07-2000 10:01 PM

Actually, Jesse is right. I was asked by Jim Paitsel again this week to do work for ASC in CA. Although, Jim only wanted me to do Northern CA. The two remaining General Enemas, and emergency calls for the 3 Regals. But Jim said that there was still more than enough work out here in CA.

What Jim offered in salary was below what I am getting for tech work with the company that I work for now.

But if you were to move out here you would have to put up with the liberal people that CA tends to produce.

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Richard C. Wolfe
Master Film Handler

Posts: 250
From: Northampton, PA, USA
Registered: Apr 2000

posted 10-07-2000 10:19 PM

They don't call it the "left" coast for nothing!

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Brad Miller
Administrator

Posts: 17775
From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall)
Registered: May 99

posted 10-08-2000 02:37 AM

Tim,

Best of luck in getting another job secured and taking care of your family. You are too skilled to be out of work. If there is anything I can do, please let me know (and I'll bet that goes for pretty much everyone else here on the forum too ).

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Tim Reed
Better Projection Pays

Posts: 5246
From: Northampton, PA
Registered: Sep 1999

posted 10-08-2000 12:22 PM

Wow, thanks for all the good words, fellas. I appreciate the support and suggestions, it helps. It's good to know you're there.

I think the reason ASC didn't offer me CA is because it still IS GCC, at least as far as they are concerned, and probably inevitable that the same thing will happen out there. Only out there, I would be 3,000 miles removed from family, instead of 1,000. That, and by hiring CA residents to fill openings they currently have in that state, they won't be out the expense of relocating me there. I'm only guessing here. It's frustrating, but apparently it just made good business sense for them to simply cut me off.

Oh, I'd sure love to live and work there, if I could find something a bit more secure (as secure as it can be in this business, that is).

BTW, I have many close friends of that persuasion, Kevin. It doesn't bother me.

Thanks again, everyone, for your kind support. I won't forget it.

I'll be in touch.

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John Pytlak
Film God

Posts: 9987
From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922
Registered: Jan 2000

posted 10-08-2000 03:21 PM

Tim: Best of luck! Where is your "home local" up north?

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John P. Pytlak, Senior Technical Specialist
Worldwide Technical Services, Entertainment Imaging
Eastman Kodak Company
Research Labs, Building 69, Room 7419
Rochester, New York, 14650-1922 USA
Tel: 716-477-5325 Fax: 716-722-7243
E-Mail: john.pytlak@kodak.com

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John Walsh
Film God

Posts: 2490
From: Connecticut, USA, Earth, Milky Way
Registered: Oct 1999

posted 10-08-2000 06:01 PM

Tim, it's a long shot, but we are opening two theaters in Florida, one in Miami and another in Jupiter. Management has been staffing for awhile, now, but maybe there's still something. I didn't see your e-mail listed, or I would have contacted you directly.

E-mail me, and I'll give you the names of two guys to call. As I said, it's a long shot, but you never know.

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Tim Reed
Better Projection Pays

Posts: 5246
From: Northampton, PA
Registered: Sep 1999

posted 10-08-2000 07:37 PM

Thanks, Mr. "P"!

Local 163, Louisville, KY

Very good, Mr. "W", it's off.

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Mark Huff
Film Handler

Posts: 69
From: Springfield, IL, USA
Registered: May 2000

posted 10-09-2000 12:48 PM

Wow Tim I am also here in Louisville. Would your contact happen to be Larry Hopewell?

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John Pytlak
Film God

Posts: 9987
From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922
Registered: Jan 2000

posted 10-09-2000 12:58 PM

Tim: Kodak has a job opening for a Theatre Specialist and Trainer for the SCREENCHECK Experience program, covering NY, PA and NJ theatres:
http://www.kodak.com/US/en/corp/jobs/postings/te20001005-02.shtml

The job just was posted last week. Good luck!

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Tim Reed
Better Projection Pays

Posts: 5246
From: Northampton, PA
Registered: Sep 1999

posted 10-09-2000 04:45 PM

Thank you, John. I will pursue that, too.

Mark, you are correct! I worked at the South Park drive-in, for the last two seasons it was alive, and the Kenwood, as well as an occasional vacation at the Village 8. Louisville's home for us.

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Mark Huff
Film Handler

Posts: 69
From: Springfield, IL, USA
Registered: May 2000

posted 10-09-2000 06:08 PM

Well I now work at the Village 8. Only here I am in management. Trying to get in the union. I have another prospect for you. ShoPro INC. They are looking for a sound and projection guy. They just want a resume and salary requirements sent to them.

Director of operations, P.O. BOX 190 Yorkville, IL 60560. Or e-mail to joe@shoproinc.com

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Jonathan M. Crist
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 531
From: Hershey, PA, USA
Registered: Apr 2000

posted 10-09-2000 06:36 PM

Heard today that General Cinema will be closing some more Pennsylvania locations. I think Scranton and couple of Philadelphia locations were mentioned.

They had closed one in Wilkes Barre about six months ago when the lease ran out.

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Richard C. Wolfe
Master Film Handler

Posts: 250
From: Northampton, PA, USA
Registered: Apr 2000

posted 10-09-2000 10:02 PM

GCC closed Scranton several months ago. They will be closing Wilkes-barre shortly.

This leaves Allentown as the only site beyond the Philadelphia area in eastern Pa. that they will still operate. I wonder if that will last as it has only eight screens, conventional slope floors, rest rooms on the 2nd floor, some auditoriums that have stairs to climb to enter and a rather odd layout as it was enlarged from the original three to five, then eight. Carmike now has a very nice new 16 plex two miles down the road with all the amenities.

Time will tell I guess!

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Paul Konen
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 981
From: Frisco, TX. (North of Dallas)
Registered: Jun 99

posted 10-10-2000 10:28 AM

This is from the Fort Worth Star Telegram.

Tuesday October 10 07:47 AM EDT
General Cinema shuts theaters in Tarrant

By Steve McLinden, Star-Telegram Staff Writer

General Cinema Theaters has pulled out of Tarrant County, making its
theaters here the latest casualty in an industry that is struggling nationwide.

General Cinema confirmed Monday that it closed older theaters in Arlington,
Fort Worth and Bedford, and one in Richardson, on Oct. 5. Company executives did not return repeated calls
seeking comment.

The move, and recent cutbacks by other theater chains, leave some North Texas neighborhoods without
nearby movie screens.

Theater industry experts say the changes reflect the relative success of flashy megaplexes, which surfaced in the
mid- to late 1990s. Seeing that success, theater chains responded by rapidly building theaters with 20 screens
or more. But that has created a glut.

"There are about 37,000 screens nationwide now," said David Allen, an analyst who follows the industry for the
Morgan Stanley Dean Witter investment firm. "That's from 10,000 to 13,000 too many. You will see more
consolidations and more bankruptcies and more closings over the next two or three years."

Full story at Fort Worth Star-Telegram

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