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Author Topic: Where were you 20 years ago? Michael Harlow Expert Film Handler Posts: 170 From: Faversham, Kent, UK Registered: Jul 2002 posted 07-02-2003 06:04 AM                     1983 ? I was 9. Didnt have a clue what i wanted to do (obviously!)  |  IP: Logged Jonathan Worthing Master Film Handler Posts: 384 From: Hereford, UK Registered: Apr 2001 posted 07-02-2003 06:53 AM                     Still in school looking at a vocation in the police force. I miss my school days so much.  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 07-02-2003 12:28 PM                       Darryl Spicer said: quote: Hey Tim, Have you heard the latest about the Kentucky theater. It is no longer 1100 seats it is more like 800 now. When the city renovated it they put in a new stage and they no longer use the balcony area. They took the theater that used to play all the porn films and renovated it into a second screen. Hi, Darryl. Yes, I have, thanks. I installed both new booths there, and completely designed the new booth at the (former) Downtown Cinema/State Theatre (which became the Kentucky's second screen). I had it built on the old balcony. (The Kentucky never had a balcony before the renovation, it only looked like one. It was really just the vestibule ceiling.) In fact, didn't you and I meet there during the installation? Go see Raymond or Rodney sometime and check out the new booth, if you haven't already. All the power and control wiring's in embedded conduit - even the Dolby Digital cable. It's just a projector sitting in the middle of the floor, with no visible means of "support". Wonderful! This is the same booth I talked about in a previous thread, where the portholes are very small, but I located them dead spot-on. My only regrets about that installation are the architect screwed me on the screen size and auditorium treatment. I had fought to keep a wall-to-wall screen, but he raised the floor on me and built the exits into the bottom of it. He also promised an acoustic covering for that curved ceiling, which he didn't deliver. And, the back wall of the original Kentucky auditorium was never covered with acoustic material as I'd requested. So, today, if you sit in the middle of the auditorium to see a movie, you can't understand the dialogue because of slap back reflections. Those would be nearly-perfect theatres if it weren't for that.  |  IP: Logged Darryl Spicer Film God Posts: 3250 From: Lexington, KY, USA Registered: Dec 2000 posted 07-02-2003 11:28 PM                    Hey Tim, No we didn't meet down there but Rodney may have mentioned me. I talked to him not to long ago. Yes I agree that they screwed it up by not putting in a bigger screen. The acustics do suck. I always find myself having to sit in about the fourth row from the front to enjoy the picture and avoid all the sound reverb. It has been a while since I last saw a film down there.  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 07-03-2003 01:27 AM                       Yes, that's embarrassing to operate like that. I confronted the architect on opening night, asking him why he pulled the rug out from under me on so many things, and he just shrugged his shoulders and gave me this "what can I do" look. The City wanted to play artsy-fartsy stage show and have their PA and lighting systems, though, and they removed many of my specifications from the blueprints. They could've cared less about running movies. They also conspired (the City and the architect - not the Kentucky management) to keep blueprints out of my hands, until the construction was so far along it was too late to make changes. That really burned me, too. Now the theatre has to suffer for the City's shortsightedness. So, you heard from Rodney? He's the salt of the Earth. We grew up together in those booths downtown, and at the drive-ins (ask him sometime about when we were at the Strand). I just saw him three weeks ago, he was a pallbearer at my Mother's funeral. Mom liked Rodney. I got to spend some time in Lexington while I was in. I would've dropped by to introduce myself, but I didn't know what theatre you worked at.  |  IP: Logged Jason Burroughs Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 654 From: Allen, TX Registered: Jun 99 posted 07-03-2003 01:31 AM                     Lets see, in '83, that would make me about 7. Going into the 1st Grade Was living in the great city of Virginia Beeach, VA, while my dad was stationed at US Naval Base Norfolk, attached to the USS Nimitz VF-41. Later that year they shot down 2 Lybian fighers (my dad wasn't an aviator). To my knowledge only 2 of the 4 aviators are still alive. 1 killed in a skiing accident, and annother test flying the F/A-18. I remember seeing Return of the Jedi at a UA (I think) there in VA beach. There wasn't just a whole lot to the town that I remember outside of all the tourist traps.  |  IP: Logged Mike Fitzgerald Expert Film Handler Posts: 224 From: Castle Hayne, NC, USA Registered: Jun 2002 posted 07-03-2003 07:12 AM                     1983 I was managing a single screen in upstate NY and trying to get the money to buy my first theatre. the theatre was a old one with a very expensive heating plant. It used baseboard electric to heat the building. The theatre is still standing but has not been used as one since the early 90's. Its last use as far as I know was a short lived nightclub  |  IP: Logged Charles Everett Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1470 From: New Jersey Registered: May 2001 posted 07-03-2003 12:13 PM                     20 years ago I saw Dave Righetti pitch a no-hitter for the New York Yankees on the Fourth of July -- at Yankee Stadium, against the Boston Red Sox. Immortality assured! Sad to say, I don't have a program for that day's game. All the hawkers were sold out by the time I got into the Stadium.  |  IP: Logged Darryl Spicer Film God Posts: 3250 From: Lexington, KY, USA Registered: Dec 2000 posted 07-03-2003 01:01 PM                    Hey Tim, Let me know the next time you may be in lexington. I will drop you a email. Just send me a private message. Or if you see or talk to Rodney again he knows where I work. I got a lot of training through Rodney when He worked for our company. Next time I see him I am going to see if he can arrange a tour of the Kentucky booth.  |  IP: Logged

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