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Posted by Adam Martin (Member # 641) on 12-02-2003, 07:39 PM:

For those theaters that have rooms set aside for birthday parties, what do they look like? What's the decor?

Here's a few to get us started:

Galaxy 16, Waco, Texas

Celebration Cinema, Grand Rapids, Michican

Yorktown 18, Lombard, Illinois

Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 12-02-2003, 07:56 PM:

Yuck. Who want's to have a party in those rooms? They look more appropriate for FBI prisoner interrogations. Darken the lighting, add some color, some neon, some noise (and maybe a few strippers) and then you'll have some ingredients for a party!

Posted by Kristin Wahlund (Member # 922) on 12-02-2003, 08:02 PM:

let me describe out party room to you... it is a medium sized room, gey floor, white cement walls, 3 tables, and a stack of old registers we arent allowed to get rid of. At one point i covered an entire wall in rugrats posters, put up a couple streamers and large "happy birthday" signs. surprisingly people don't complain about it.

Posted by Steve Kraus (Member # 476) on 12-02-2003, 09:56 PM:

Yeah...either strippers or maybe an old Super Simplex the kids could admire.

Posted by John Pytlak (Member # 331) on 12-02-2003, 10:14 PM:

quote:
Yeah...either strippers or maybe an old Super Simplex the kids could admire.

I always found (film) strippers to be one of the least interesting parts of a projector. They just sit there until you have a sprocket-wrap. [Wink]

Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 12-02-2003, 11:33 PM:

What is a "gey floor"? Is that where the strippers dance (or where the film strippers operate)?

Posted by Rachel Gilardi (Member # 1016) on 12-03-2003, 12:10 AM:

We have a section of the office 'cubicled' off...we use that for parties. [Roll Eyes]

Posted by John Scott (Member # 520) on 12-03-2003, 12:25 AM:

There is room at the Strand to host a party? For what? 3 people? [Wink]

Posted by William Hooper (Member # 71) on 12-03-2003, 12:28 AM:

Party Room at the State Palace Theatre, New Orleans

Posted by Steve Scott (Member # 630) on 12-03-2003, 10:30 AM:

At the Lakeville, we had a "party room manager" who, for a whole month decorated the party room with odd shaped balloons. No pics, cause the management was so upset about it, but it was like this woman could only make dirty looking balloons. The floor staff thought it was hilarious, the parents were slightly amused [Big Grin]

Posted by Rachel Gilardi (Member # 1016) on 12-03-2003, 10:57 AM:

quote:
There is room at the Strand to host a party? For what? 3 people?

It holds about 12, and its not a room - only part of a room! [Razz]

Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 12-03-2003, 04:09 PM:

Who wants to have a party at a freakin' movie theater? Apparently a lot of people do. If my parents had ever held my birthday party in a movie theater, I'd ask them why they hated me. I would have run away and lived in a trash can. It would be better than living with tacky parents. I mean they could have at least taken you to Chuck E. Cheese or something.

Posted by Ron Lacheur (Member # 1126) on 12-03-2003, 04:41 PM:

There was one saturday afternoon where i worked that they had 5 birthday parties booked.

Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 12-03-2003, 07:48 PM:

quote:
If my parents had ever held my birthday party in a movie theater, I'd ask them why they hated me. I would have run away and lived in a trash can.

Hooray! I finally figured out the origin of Sesame Street's Oscar The Grouch!

Posted by Erick Akers (Member # 875) on 12-03-2003, 08:16 PM:

Hey,
Oscar The Grouch is a childhood hero of mine!!!

I still have my 1977 "Oscar The Grouch" Talking Alarm Clock.

He has has never failed to remind me to "Have a Grouchy Day" in 25 years!!! [thumbsup]

Posted by Christopher Seo (Member # 7) on 12-03-2003, 08:41 PM:

I pulled some relief shifts at a multiplex in Hawaii which had some truly bizarre architecture. On the second floor there were three projection booths, one or two offices, a couple party/meeting rooms (nothing special, just regular utilitarian rooms), an employee break room, and emergency exits for two auditoriums, which all shared the same hallway (and bathrooms, I might add). While sprinting from booth to booth I encountered birthday parties, churchgoers singing hymns, and patrons who couldn't read "Emergency Exit" signs wandering around in a daze.

A very surreal place.

Posted by Thomas Procyk (Member # 1170) on 12-05-2003, 01:39 PM:

The Regal 18 in Royal Palm was supposed to have "party rooms" under the stadium seating, but they never put any a/c vents in them! So they became storage rooms.

=TMP=

Posted by Scott D. Neff (Member # 185) on 12-09-2003, 01:42 PM:

Why would any part of a theatre that the general public doesn't use need air conditioning? Next thing you'll be telling me that manager's offices and projection booths don't have proper HVAC.

How absurd. [Roll Eyes]

Posted by John Pytlak (Member # 331) on 12-09-2003, 02:03 PM:

Admittedly, many theatres have very poor or no conditioning of the projection room environment. It's worth the added cost, both for operator comfort, and the improved performance of film and electronic equipment. For film, the optimum relative humidity is between 50 and 60 percent RH, with a comfortable temperature for the operator. HEPA filtration of the incoming air will help keep equipment and film much cleaner.