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Author Topic: Theater Marquees Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 02-24-2008 08:44 PM                     (As nice as the Presidio looks, you think that they would have a budget to provide an ample supply one color of letters to make their marquee look as clean as their building...)  |  IP: Logged Adam Martin I'm not even gonna point out the irony. Posts: 3686 From: Dallas, TX Registered: Nov 2000 posted 08-09-2008 11:38 PM                     Halfway there, time for my break!  |  IP: Logged Andrew Bangs Expert Film Handler Posts: 148 From: Kerrville, Texas, United States Registered: Sep 2008 posted 01-16-2009 08:39 PM                        Took a Break during the building of a Standee. This also represents my feelings for the creators of the Standee.  |  IP: Logged Martin McCaffery Film God Posts: 2481 From: Montgomery, AL Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-17-2009 03:17 PM                        No pix, and no double entendre, but one of my favorite creative marquees was fo Grease with Olivia Newton John Travolta  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-26-2009 06:16 PM                     Hey Brad, I recognize the RITZ marquee... one of our customers!!  |  IP: Logged John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 01-26-2009 07:35 PM                     quote: Andrew Bangs Took a Break during the building of a Standee. This also represents my feelings for the creators of the Standee. No prizes for guessing what they call the sequel.  |  IP: Logged Adam Martin I'm not even gonna point out the irony. Posts: 3686 From: Dallas, TX Registered: Nov 2000 posted 04-05-2009 11:00 AM                      |  IP: Logged System Notices Forum Watchdog / Soup Nazi Posts: 215 Registered: Apr 2004 posted 11-24-2011 09:42 PM                 It has been 963 days since the last post.  |  IP: Logged Cassandra Palko Film Handler Posts: 30 From: Menomonee Falls, WI USA Registered: Jul 2009 posted 11-24-2011 09:42 PM                        Today's new movie - Arthur Christmas 3D showed up like this on our mini marquee:  |  IP: Logged Chuck McGregor Film Handler Posts: 47 From: Bremen, ME, USA Registered: Mar 2012 posted 08-09-2012 02:34 AM                     While only marquee in the loosest sense: Pitney Bowes (the postage meter folks) had very big, red, neon letters of its name atop its factory. This was about 1/4 mile from and dominated the nighttime landscape for a good stretch of the I-95 corridor through Stamford CT. You could not miss it. Some years ago for a couple of nights the "B" of the sign was not working. Clearly seen by all driving this busy stretch was: "Pitney owes" Needless to say the "B" was quickly repaired.  |  IP: Logged System Notices Forum Watchdog / Soup Nazi Posts: 215 Registered: Apr 2004 posted 08-13-2015 12:05 PM                 It has been 1099 days since the last post.  |  IP: Logged Timothy Eiler Expert Film Handler Posts: 126 From: Litchfield , Minnesota, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 08-13-2015 12:05 PM                        Years back i sent my Booker and email as to how she could have let us book a combo as it didn't matter how i put it on the marquee it look x-rated Knocked up With Hot Fuzz Knocked up and Hot Fuzz Knocked up Hot Fuzz She Forwarded it to her husband Who's response was back in the day they would have booked 3 features Knocked up In the land Of women with Hot Fuzz  |  IP: Logged Matt Russell Expert Film Handler Posts: 142 From: Aurora, USA Registered: Aug 2015 posted 08-15-2015 03:30 AM                    I remember at one of the first theaters I worked at in the late 90s' as a projectionlist trainee, we had a guy who had to go out every Friday and change the title. One Friday in the summer of 99, he was on a vacation, so a custodian did it for him, and instead of putting up both the first and last title or a abrivating it, he only put the first titles on, so it said for a whole week "NOW PLAYING: SOUTH (Park) WILD (Wild West) STAR (WARS)". Needless to say, we got quite a lot of people coming in thinking we were also an adult theater and thought "South Wild Star" was a porno. Luckily it didn't hurt our reputation, but it just went to show how oblivious some people are.  |  IP: Logged Lyle Romer Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1400 From: Davie, FL, USA Registered: May 2002 posted 08-20-2015 07:58 AM                     Back in the early 90's I worked at a GCC and became the Marquee change guy. Our Marquee was out by the road and we went through a period of a few weeks where somebody would rearrange the letters for the lines that were accessible without a ladder. I don't remember many of the new titles but one that I do recall was that "The Cutting Edge" became "The Cunt Edge." I should have taken pictures or jotted some down because sometimes they were pretty creative.  |  IP: Logged

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