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Bobby Henderson
"Ask me about Trajan."

Posts: 10973
From: Lawton, OK, USA
Registered: Apr 2001

posted 07-09-2002 02:29 PM

I doubt any of Wallace Theater's execs are reading any of this. However, a few people from Carmike are getting a good laugh out of it regarding the Lawton situation. Wallace doesn't seem to have any presence on the Internet (at least not any web site or news article that shows up in any search engine).

But Mike is corrent in the manner of a back-stabbing coworker. In Wallace's case, any such efforts by other workers may fall on deaf ears. The people running Wallace Theaters obviously know they are running a slum of a circuit. So how is it going to matter when an employee or frustrated film fan like myself simply tells the truth about it. I know I'm not worried about what I have wrote. I have exaggerated nothing in terms of how terrible a theater the Cache 8 is in Lawton. Even if the theater chain somehow had the nerve to even attempt to sue me for libel over it, the case would be quickly thrown out of court (#1 on first admendment basis and #2 my having 100% factual grounds for my claims: their theater is terrible and should be closed).

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Justin McLeod
Film Handler

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From: Oklahoma City, OK, USA
Registered: Jun 2002

posted 07-09-2002 05:38 PM

How right you are mike but i seriously doubt anybody else from my theater will ever visit this site let alone become a member. The corporate office is the one really responsibe for what the theater looks like know. People at my theater just arent into the kind of things im into, that includes film-tech.

I will not post any more unpleasantries bout fellow co-worker work preformance.

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Jeff Leyland
Film Handler

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From: Lake Charles, LA
Registered: Dec 2001

posted 07-09-2002 08:20 PM

Bobby,

Try www.wallacetheaters.com

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Justin McLeod
Film Handler

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From: Oklahoma City, OK, USA
Registered: Jun 2002

posted 07-09-2002 10:04 PM

I forgot to mention that wallace has a website. Not much going on their. Wallace theater corporation is split up into parts. Wallace 1 and wallace 2. The corporate headquarters for wallace 1 is in Hawaii and the corporate office for wallace 2 is in Portland Oregon. I do haft to admit that the pic of the theater on the website is the best looking wallace Named theater I have seen. Its probably the one that the man himself has his office in. My theater ranks in the top 2 of the wallace 2 circuit. We do manage to pull in alot of people during busy weekends and holidays, about 7000 in a single REALLY BUSY day. On any other busy day we usually bring in 4500 or a little higher.

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Brooks M. Davies
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From: Killeen, TX, USA
Registered: Jul 2002

posted 07-10-2002 12:24 AM

well its good to hear that im not the only Wallace employee to have problems with corp., we have a 14 staduim house that is the only theater for a 50 min drive and with Ft.Hood nearby and is the leader in the Wallace chain (so we are told) yet i posted a thread yesterday trying to figure out how to get supplies to run the booth beside the cheap stuff wallace sends, you know what im talking about i hope, we have been open for 3 years and still have lights out that have never worked even on opening day, running lights with bare wires showing yet a storage room full of them. at least you have DTS we dont have any, just digital in all 14. the only thing i can say is we have a great presentation with what we got, the best in town, oh wait....lol

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Justin McLeod
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From: Oklahoma City, OK, USA
Registered: Jun 2002

posted 07-10-2002 08:20 PM

Lights seem to be the biggest problem for wallace.They must be too expensive to keep going. We send in a work order or a purchase order and the corporate office says " woah, thats too expensive, were going to haft to find a cheaper way to do it or get someone to do it for free". Even in booth we call in for a projector problem and talk to our tech about it and he calls the corporate and tells them how much its gonna cost and the corporate office says something like " Woah, Woah, Woah, we dont have the money for that, its too expensive!!!" " Hey, your going to haft to wing it for a while ". Unless its a major problem where the theater is dead then they will pay to have it fixed but will only go through the cheapest company available to get it fixed. If its a christie part it usually gets replaced with another if that part is responsible for keeping the projector going.Stereo sound heads and air pots always fail at my theater and always take the longest to get replaced.

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Brooks M. Davies
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From: Killeen, TX, USA
Registered: Jul 2002

posted 07-10-2002 11:50 PM

oh man justin i know what your talking about, we (the booth) asked for better splice tape, not the packing tape they were sending us and put in the work order we asked for nuemade or a quality tape, and we got....nothing my GM said well use what you got and then will see what we can do...so we did and tried to use it quick if you know what i mean, we put in the order agian and got the same just more of it.. my GM (who tries) said well pool your money and well get it.....NOT dont think so... why are they so cheap? i just dont get it it not like WE are making huge amount of money....

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Justin McLeod
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From: Oklahoma City, OK, USA
Registered: Jun 2002

posted 07-11-2002 03:16 PM

We havent had a problem with splicing tape. We either get the clear kind ( which i have heard is the best ) and the H-TAPE (also known as ZEBRA TAPE ).

I guess my manager knows who to go through for the splicing tape. Does your booth staff use film-guard?

Wallace isnt in the game for presentation or all his high profile theaters like yours and mine would get the good treatment. Wallace is making a fortune off of us!!

I think their is one other high profile theater (their could be more) in the wallace 2 chain, the one in Mobile Alabama. I think its a 14 screen aswell.I would like to see them get in on this website.

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Brooks M. Davies
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From: Killeen, TX, USA
Registered: Jul 2002

posted 07-12-2002 05:19 AM

Yeah there is a few "big" wallace theaters Waco being one and up in longview, and a bunch in hawaii, i thin they have the monopoly on the islands... yeah we have zebra tape but man its cheap!!! we had some nuemade at first that we were really trying to make last, but it ran out and they sent us "their" tape and its PACKING tape with the yello "H" on it you could smell it and tell!! we used it. but it is so thick it would jump the rollers and then all kinds of trouble.. i wen t straight to the GM and said you send this to corp. and say we dont want any more of this crap and he did (which surprised me) and they sent new tape THE SAME CRAP JUST MORE OF IT, so i called in a few "contacts" and got some decient zebra to last us for a while... YES we use film guard i love it and live by it-- we had to fight for it they jsut wanted us to run dry media to clean the prints and told us since we dont keep prints that long they wont be bad, well we got some and it really made a difference. but when we run out its a while before we get more. and we only have 2 cleaners for 14 screens and they wont get more, (naturally) its hard trying to fight your own company to make them look good, and knowing its yours and a few others theaters making these guys rich...

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Justin McLeod
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From: Oklahoma City, OK, USA
Registered: Jun 2002

posted 07-12-2002 03:51 PM

I wish i had more time in my booth to really test our zebra tape to see if its the cause of the platter tower roller scratches.I only get one night in booth a week. I use to be all booth till the theater recieved more employees from other theaters that wallace shut down.They all seemed to want booth and they got it, reguardess of how long i have been in booth before they came over. Im am experienced enough in booth to change out the shutter belts and time the shutter blades. I can take apart all the main working parts of the aperture and put them back together and change out the gate bands aswell. I can buld up and break down,change out projector bulbs and do regular cleaning. maintanance.I can also change out the projector bulb igniters and i know how to use the film guard with the media pads aswell

. Id say that all but 3 people including my self can do the things i can do in our booth and one of our booth employees can do more than all of us. The rest are just not intrested to further their booth knowledge and i get the boot down stairs to work with the kiddies and make shure they clean and stock between sets. What a joke.

We dont have a problem with ordering film guard. We always have 2 to 3 extra bottles but it hardly gets used on the prints via the media cleaners. The corporate office must really hate texas. I wonder how well the Hawaii theaters are holding up compared to the ones here stateside.

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Mike Spaeth
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From: Marietta, GA
Registered: Jul 2000

posted 07-12-2002 09:13 PM

Lambasting ones current employer in a public forum may not be the wisest of choices. Why don't we start a new thread called "How I Hate Working For Wallace Theaters"?

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Brad Miller
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From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall)
Registered: May 99

posted 07-12-2002 09:25 PM

Does this count as "signs done wrong"? Although the marquee has finally been fixed, it was this way for a long time. This theater is commonly known as the "Ho Wood" too for it's section of the marquee that dies from time to time.

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Bobby Henderson
"Ask me about Trajan."

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From: Lawton, OK, USA
Registered: Apr 2001

posted 07-13-2002 12:13 PM

It is a pretty dreadful thing for any kind of business to allow their signs to fall into disrepair for long periods of time. Most cities and towns have ordinances against such things. But most also don't have the time or manpower to enforce the rules. If they would do something as simple as mandate UL Listing requirements on all electrical signs, Underwriters Laboratories would inspect the signs on a periodic basis.

I remember when the Hollywood complex in Garland was a fairly nice theater (but then it was pretty new back in the early 1990s). It is one thing to allow a modest looking sign to stay broken for awhile. Visually elaborate signs, such as the Hollywood sign, must stay well maintained for all the extra attention it draws to itself.

As for the "LLY" section that keeps going dark, that sounds like a basic flaw in wiring design and power supply. The open channel letters and chase lights are drawing too much power through their circuit and the ballast controlling the "LLY" letters are failing as the weakest link in the chain. If they ran another circuit to the sign and used the right kind of ballasts they would not have the HO-WOOD problem.

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Charles Everett
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From: New Jersey
Registered: May 2001

posted 11-14-2002 12:18 PM

Update to an earlier post: At the All-Jersey Multiplex Cinemas in Newark NJ, the sign facing the Pulaski Skyway has finally been replaced.

Somebody from National Amusements must lurk around Film-Tech!

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