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Topic: What is the most ridiculous multi-plex in your area?
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Mike Williams
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From: Knoxville, TN
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 04-16-2002 04:38 PM
Dennis,The Miller Square never had the highest per-screen gross in the nation. It didn't have enough seats! Kendall 9 had the highest. Speaking of the Miller Square theater that was a bad chop job... 3 of the 4 auditoriums were split in half (so you had a front and back theater). That caused an interesting keystoning effect in one of the houses. The extra theater (theater 1) was added in the former game room. It was a bear threading that auditorium because the projector was actually mounted 3 - 4 feet down in the former stairwell while the platter was up in the booth. Not to mention the raised projectors for the split audiotiums. All of those platters were at booth level and the projector was up on a platform 4 or 5 feet up. (so it could throw over the back theater). I got to fill in there during most of its last year. That was more than enough!
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Adam Martin
I'm not even gonna point out the irony.
Posts: 3686
From: Dallas, TX
Registered: Nov 2000
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posted 04-17-2002 12:30 AM
The Esquire Theatre near the campus of the University of Cincinnati used to be a single that was chopped up into a tri, consisting of a "large" 2XX-seat house and a #2 of about 80 and a #3 of about 40 or 50. Screens 2 and 3 were at the rear of the original auditorium and the #3 screen had a throw of about 25 feet, with the port window almost at the booth floor! I remember seeing The Bad Lieutenant there when The Crying Game was in #1 and A River Runs Through It was in #2.The theater is now a six-screener, famous for being the theater that edited the print of Center of the World and getting busted by the local paper for doing so. I assume that they expanded into a neighboring building when they became a 6-plex, as there was simply no more room in their 3-screen building [circa 1992].
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Dennis Benjamin
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Posts: 1445
From: Denton, MD
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 04-17-2002 01:05 AM
Mike, Check the grosses for Miller Square pre-Kendall 9. I have heard stories from some of the people who managed it during the Womecto Days. I could be getting my stories wrong (in fact I probably am). However - I did get a few people to respond to the post - right? How are things at the Palace 18? The theatre still hanging in there? P.S. Also, I believe the title was "most ridiculus multiplex in the area" - I am sure that you agree what was done to the Miller was one of the most craziest chop-jobs on record. May it R.I.P. ------------------
"Running through life at 24 frames per second"
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Jerry Chase
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From: Margate, FL, USA
Registered: Nov 2000
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posted 04-17-2002 10:27 AM
Yes, Miller Square did quite well pre-Kendall 9. However, it was about 2.5 miles north of Kendall Lakes Triple and was more a neighborhood theatre and teen hangout than a destination theatre. It might have done especially well with selected product, and had a peak before newer theatres were built near Kendall Drive, but I don't think it was a regular countrywide gross leader. Be thankful you didn't see the Miller booth in the union days. It was a total mess, full of  and operated by an agent with an attitude. He usually made a point of showing up unshaven and unwashed, in stinking dirty strap undershirts. Dressed like this, he regularly tried to stand in the lobby oogling all the teenager girls that showed up in lightweight summer dresses and no bras, placing himself where he could see them right as they first hit the air conditioning. K-9 used to regularly whomp the nearby AMC theatre's ass, and had a near perfect location at the last big I-95 exit before Homestead. (And a waterfall curtain in the big auditorium.) Dadeland was the big twin at the corner of Kendall Drive and U.S. 1 that had huge grosses in the glory days. Bringing it back on topic, K-9 was a strange theatre because the mezzanine floor for the booth was "value-engineered" out, forcing the use of multiple booths and a reduction in seating capacity.
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