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Topic: "CE3K" --- Happy 30th!
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Michael Coate
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1904
From: Los Angeles, California
Registered: Feb 2001
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posted 01-08-2008 07:57 PM
quote: Bill Gabel
But thats the way Fucking GCC built in that era. So if you have a problem with that, then go to the location and look for your self.
Bill, I'm sorry I lashed out at you. But I hope you can see why I had issues with your posts. I appreciate your attempt to help, but it was apparent that you had no firsthand knowledge of the situation and that you used faulty reasoning to draw your conclusion.
I have a love-hate relationship with sites like MapQuest, Cinema Tour and Cinema Treasures for settling matters like this because in my experience too much of their information is not definitive. Which is why I threw out my question here knowing a few film-tech members live(d) or work(ed) in the area in question, although I'm surprised none of the people I'm thinking of chimed in. Steve G., you out there? Blaine? Heck, I think even Bobby H. mentioned at some point having attended the mall theater. (Of course, I'm also wary of memory, but that doesn't preclude me from posing a question and proceeding cautiously.)
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Blaine Young
Master Film Handler
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From: Kirkland, WA, USA
Registered: Sep 2006
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posted 01-09-2008 09:29 AM
Okay, so originally, GCC in Springfield Mall was 2 theaters, at Entrance 2. Screen 1 had a pair of JJ's with 70mm Capabilities. When the mall expanded and added Entrance 5, they built Cinemas 3&4. Later, an expansion of that entrance allowed them to tack on Theaters 5&6. Many years later - about 1987-88, they remodeled another section of the mall and built a food court. As part of that remodel, they built 4 new screens, labeled 7-10. The theater ran in this configuration for a while, until they closed the original 1&2 for a remodel. That remodel essentially consisted of gutting the lobby/concession stand area, digging out 3 stories underneath the theater and building 4 new small screens (125-200 seats) underneath the old 1&2. Once this opened, they closed the original 3-6. Now it's been 13 years since I was there, and GCC is gone and AMC now has this location. I believe it is still the same configuration. Hopefully they added Digital Sound to the screens. When I left, only 6 were Stereo. Screen 1 was a CP100 with THX, 2 was a CP50, 7-10 were CP55 and Screen 8 also had DTS.
The location listed as "Springfield Cinema" was a single screen run by Neighborhood Theaters. It was a huge screen and I always enjoyed going there. Alas, at some point it fell victim to the infamous twin syndrome and they remodeled it to become a Twin. That had to have been in the early 80s, but I can't put my memory around when that occurred. When it "Twinned" it became Springfield Cinema I & II.
Long story short, at the time that Close Encounters played there at it's original engagement, it played at the Springfield Cinema which was a single screen. They were separate and distinct.
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