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Rachel Gilardi
New Member
Posts: 27
From: Gloucester, MA
Registered: Mar 2003
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posted December 17, 2003 11:58 PM
Do I HAVE to do this? *huff*
Ok, I'm me. A 23 year old female who is still looking for respect from all the men in her life! ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
I work at the Strand Theater in Manitowoc, WI - I've been here for about 6 months where I am a manager/projectionst.
Past stuff:
Hollywood Hits, Danvers MA - Sept 11th, 2001 (not a great date) - June 2003, Manager.
Museum Place Cinema - Patriot Cinemas, Salem MA - Sept 2000 to Sept 2001, General Manager/Projectionist.
Gloucester Cinema, Gloucester MA - August 1993 - Sept 2000, Asst. Manager/Projectionst.
I moved out to Wisconsin (cheese land) from Massachusetts about 6 months ago to be with my boyfriend Don. My hobbies are movies, painting, and reading (when I actually have time).
Ummm, Yeah - I'm pretty darn boring.
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John Robert
Member
Posts: 135
From: Addison, TX
Registered: Jan 2005
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posted February 06, 2005 07:16 AM
No matching picture, so you'll have to guess...I seem to be on the other side of the camera anyway lately.
I worked for 3 1/2 years as an usher/gofer/flunkie at a 3-screen Carmike (the bulk of the time I was there the company went by 'Martin') in the early-to-mid-80s in east Texas between Dallas and Shreveport. It was one of those lovely shoeboxes (the Dallas paper's film critic's description--a plain square building with little or no imagination) that the company felt no need in maintaining or investing in. So any puke/coke spill/gum on the carpet might get the shampoo machine to the place, but no chance of actually *changing* that awful orange/brown material to something newer. Oh, not only that, but should a letter/number break or come up missing for the sign out at the street, too bad. I'd have to make do or improvise. That black marker got used a lot. I'd have to put tails on 'P's to make 'R's, or take an 'L' and draw 2 lines on it to make an 'E', that kind of thing.
That theater, the Cinema 3, replaced the last theater downtown, the Palace, which I'd been to a few times over the years. The Cinema 3 was built on the site of the old Chief Drive-In (that's one that our webmaster doesn't have listed yet) which I think closed in the early 70s. I used to remember the first 3 movies the Cinema 3 had shown when it opened, now I can't. But we're talking almost a 25-year-old place, so the brain cells flake off after a while I guess. By far the most popular movie ever at the Cinema 3 was Raiders of the Lost Ark, it was there at least 4 separate engagements for multiple weeks each time.
Carmike actually closed the Cinema 3 about 3 years ago during their bankruptcy, and within a few months a theater group from a nearby city bought it, fixed it up, and reopened it. I've been up to see it once since the reopen, and hooray no more orange/brown anything! ![[thumbs up]](graemlins/thumbsup.gif)
One of my earliest moviegoing trips was in grade school...for a during-the-day fieldtrip, my class and I got to an old theater called the Strand to see Charlotte's Web. It wasn't a very big theater, and it had an adjacent Strand Restaurant; both were on the east side of a park/town square. The Strand and the restaurant (which itself had been used in later years as a shoe shop) were torn down some years later to accomodate a bank building expansion.
I found out about this site about 2 months ago when a link was shown in the message board of the Dallas Historical Society. This definitely went in the bookmarks list.
As for now, I work for 2 hotels in the Dallas area, browse/work on websites, and look like a zombie most of the time (my jobs are both overnight...which means it's past my bedtime ![[Rolling on Floor Laughing]](graemlins/rofl.gif) )
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