TISLOEWS, I read the comment policy on CT and honor it, but like any theatre dog will tell you i have R and X rated stories and i am talking mainstreem first run theatres. I only wish all my friends that worked with at ABC THEATRES and GCC that i am still friends with would add to what i post, I can only remember so much.
They enjoy the heck out of the old days, but are too shy or something.
LOOK it is so simple when the carbon arcs were replaced with light bulbs the world changed in the booth. Same way for spotlights. Got rid of the carbon arcs now everyone in my local wants to run a show. Mike Rogers Local 629
Yeah, ROCKY HORROR did okay on MIDNIGHT SHOWS,but i can’t Leave out ANIMAL HOUSE which was a big hit with the UGA crowd. I still think this town is not a big LATE SHOW town.
I was able to get a few feet of Belushi from a bad cut in the print.Mr.Smith was going to toss it in the trash. It was right about where he yelled “FOOD FIGHT.”
One night after finishing up at THE IMPERIAL i waled across the street to see THE FRENCH CONNECTION PART 2,but it was a big let down.You know it might have done better at NATIONAL HILLS.
One night after a huge crowd for a movie,Tommy Capers gets a phone call from the AUGUSTA POLICE DEPARTMENT informing him one of their officers is in the audience and must be FOUND.
A theatre full, and luckly after a few seats,Tommy locates the cop. Found out someone was out on the streets looking to kill this cop. Tommy Locked him in the checkout room until APD showed up. Can’t make this up!
Jim Neely calls and tells me a man got out of his seat in the IMPERIAL came out in the lobby and fainted. Found out he had a thing about needles and was watching th re-release of THE EXORCIST. Can’t make this up.
Nov. 1974,I EXPERIMENT and put sugar in our popcorn popper. THE popcorn comes out with brown spots.OH, well in the trash before anyone sees it. Sometimes you get bored.
Well, this is a golf town.PEOPLE are going crazy when they hear BILL MURRAY DOING his Augusta National MASTERS bit. CADDYSHACK IS A MONEY MAKER. Sadly CADDYSHACK 2 WOULD play at REGENCY 1,2.3. and DIE . playing in COLUMBIA TWO.
Maybe some of yoy Atlanta theatre dogs will know if this is true.When I worked at GCC in Athens we heard Former President Carter came to a movie there and afterwards the secret service had to clear the restroom out for him and him alone.It could have happed at AKERS MILL, but ithink it was PERIMETER MALL. Just wondering.
WE did it at REGENCY MALL and Mr.Zacker does it here he inventories the whole theatre everynght.I never understood why.We certainly did not do it when i was with ABC PLITT THEATRES.Maybe it’s a Zack thing.
But like i said the girls do most of it for me. I hate counting.
Getting something called a TELZON computer to inventory the stock.I prefer a paper and pencil,Almost always i get a Concessionstand girl to do it,It gets them away from the counter,They always do my BOR’S.Never did them in Augusta, ain’t going to start now, Heck, really when you come down to it i count the money and make sure it gets in the bank.{2009 now everything,i bet is computer,got out at the right time}.
You know i am glad we are the Cinemas of choice for the UGA Football and Basketball programs,Mr.Zacker gets comp tickets to any game and good seats. He gets about 10 tickets a game.I think he is a DAWG fan and not a FLORDIA STATE fan anymore.
Speaking of girls,Mr.Zacker wants Pam to train in management.He wants US to start showing her the ropes.Karen Shaw the Box office girl has been here a long time,but she is happy selling tickets.It blew my mind to find out she is a Lincesed Pilot.Mrs,Anne,Mr.Smith’s wife brings some the best food for us.I guess she knows we are living off those 89 cent pizzas at Kroger.
Doggone it,Charles has a girlfriend in the Mall. Flowers and such. She works upstairs on the far level.Of course,I handle the cinemas cause Mr.Zacker knocks off at 5 pm.Speaking of girlfriends mine comes in one night from Augusta,We met at REGENCY.Glad she didn’t catch me hugging a Concessionstand girl.
Electrical problems one morning! It was a bad 20 amp breaker,I told ZACK i could change out a breaker,but he called a Electrical company to change it. I could have saved GCC some money.
First time in Athens I noticed the theatre hired off duty cops to work the MIDNIGHT SHOWS.Andy was the cop we always got and he was super cool.He hunted all his meat for his family,wild game hunter.He would always bring SOMETHING for us to eat.
One night have the friday night Midnight show ,Mike The relief Projectionist throws a party , so CHARLES and I go. Charles gets so wasted i have to put him to bed.His hangover is so bad Mr.Zacker and me both end up working a double.But that is the theatre business.
GEORGIA SQUARE MALL was huge compared to REGENCY in Augusta. The popcorn room at REGENCY was like a Closet. Our stock room was so small that often we would put Drink cups in the Projection Booth which teed off the operators,But there was no room. There was enought room at GEORGIA SQUARE in the Popcorn room for employees to have a desk to study by,since most of our staff was UGA students.
I noticed MIDNIGHT SHOWS were much calmer in Athens than Augusta.Even when we played ROCKY HORROR we did not have the headaches we had in Augusta.{SEE REGENCY 1,2.3.CINEMAS in Augusta.}
Bad thing about GCC we were on Salary. Had we been hourly we would have made alot more. My take home for 1983 was about $150.00 a week!That is working GCC hours sometimes a Kid movie,Regular features,and the ever present weekend midnight shows. I am also glad that GeorgiaSquare Mall 1.2.3.4. has it is own place on CT. Thanks Nick.
Yes,like so many old theatre people it is easy to go right back to work at a theatre,But withall these new theatres 20 plexs and more there might be a bit more to training. I came up to GEORGIA SQUARE between jobs and to help Mr.Zacker out.He was training the Assistant Charles Pileggi how to do an ad for the paper and he let it be known that he did not need my advice.I killed time behind the box office.Having put together ads before.Mr.Zacker was pretty good at the ads.
Another thing about the projectionists.They stayed to themselves unlike all the projectionists i had worked with in Augusta.Mr.Smith the head operator would hardly ever come in to our offices and chat.Maybe that was being a good Union man. His relief guy,Mike was the same way. Nothing wrong,Just different.
When i first arrived at GEORGIA SQUARE MALL CINEMAS i had hoped to score big on some one sheets.To my surprize there were none in the theatre.It didn’t take long to realize the posters are favorites of dorm rooms at UGA. I can count on one hand how many folks asked for one sheets in Augusta.
TISLOEWS, I read the comment policy on CT and honor it, but like any theatre dog will tell you i have R and X rated stories and i am talking mainstreem first run theatres. I only wish all my friends that worked with at ABC THEATRES and GCC that i am still friends with would add to what i post, I can only remember so much.
They enjoy the heck out of the old days, but are too shy or something.
LOOK it is so simple when the carbon arcs were replaced with light bulbs the world changed in the booth. Same way for spotlights. Got rid of the carbon arcs now everyone in my local wants to run a show. Mike Rogers Local 629
Yeah, ROCKY HORROR did okay on MIDNIGHT SHOWS,but i can’t Leave out ANIMAL HOUSE which was a big hit with the UGA crowd. I still think this town is not a big LATE SHOW town.
I was able to get a few feet of Belushi from a bad cut in the print.Mr.Smith was going to toss it in the trash. It was right about where he yelled “FOOD FIGHT.”
One night after finishing up at THE IMPERIAL i waled across the street to see THE FRENCH CONNECTION PART 2,but it was a big let down.You know it might have done better at NATIONAL HILLS.
ENTER THE DRAGON played at THE MILLER after THE IMPERIAL getting the first BRUCE LEE FILMS; FIST OF FURY and CHINESE CONNECTION.
One night after a huge crowd for a movie,Tommy Capers gets a phone call from the AUGUSTA POLICE DEPARTMENT informing him one of their officers is in the audience and must be FOUND.
A theatre full, and luckly after a few seats,Tommy locates the cop. Found out someone was out on the streets looking to kill this cop. Tommy Locked him in the checkout room until APD showed up. Can’t make this up!
Jim Neely calls and tells me a man got out of his seat in the IMPERIAL came out in the lobby and fainted. Found out he had a thing about needles and was watching th re-release of THE EXORCIST. Can’t make this up.
Nov. 1974,I EXPERIMENT and put sugar in our popcorn popper. THE popcorn comes out with brown spots.OH, well in the trash before anyone sees it. Sometimes you get bored.
Well, this is a golf town.PEOPLE are going crazy when they hear BILL MURRAY DOING his Augusta National MASTERS bit. CADDYSHACK IS A MONEY MAKER. Sadly CADDYSHACK 2 WOULD play at REGENCY 1,2.3. and DIE . playing in COLUMBIA TWO.
Maybe some of yoy Atlanta theatre dogs will know if this is true.When I worked at GCC in Athens we heard Former President Carter came to a movie there and afterwards the secret service had to clear the restroom out for him and him alone.It could have happed at AKERS MILL, but ithink it was PERIMETER MALL. Just wondering.
WE did it at REGENCY MALL and Mr.Zacker does it here he inventories the whole theatre everynght.I never understood why.We certainly did not do it when i was with ABC PLITT THEATRES.Maybe it’s a Zack thing.
But like i said the girls do most of it for me. I hate counting.
Getting something called a TELZON computer to inventory the stock.I prefer a paper and pencil,Almost always i get a Concessionstand girl to do it,It gets them away from the counter,They always do my BOR’S.Never did them in Augusta, ain’t going to start now, Heck, really when you come down to it i count the money and make sure it gets in the bank.{2009 now everything,i bet is computer,got out at the right time}.
You know i am glad we are the Cinemas of choice for the UGA Football and Basketball programs,Mr.Zacker gets comp tickets to any game and good seats. He gets about 10 tickets a game.I think he is a DAWG fan and not a FLORDIA STATE fan anymore.
Speaking of girls,Mr.Zacker wants Pam to train in management.He wants US to start showing her the ropes.Karen Shaw the Box office girl has been here a long time,but she is happy selling tickets.It blew my mind to find out she is a Lincesed Pilot.Mrs,Anne,Mr.Smith’s wife brings some the best food for us.I guess she knows we are living off those 89 cent pizzas at Kroger.
Doggone it,Charles has a girlfriend in the Mall. Flowers and such. She works upstairs on the far level.Of course,I handle the cinemas cause Mr.Zacker knocks off at 5 pm.Speaking of girlfriends mine comes in one night from Augusta,We met at REGENCY.Glad she didn’t catch me hugging a Concessionstand girl.
Electrical problems one morning! It was a bad 20 amp breaker,I told ZACK i could change out a breaker,but he called a Electrical company to change it. I could have saved GCC some money.
MR.MOM opened to good crowds.I was glad because i was a big TERRI GARR fan. But was nothing like THE BIG CHILL.People in that city loved that film.
First time in Athens I noticed the theatre hired off duty cops to work the MIDNIGHT SHOWS.Andy was the cop we always got and he was super cool.He hunted all his meat for his family,wild game hunter.He would always bring SOMETHING for us to eat.
One night have the friday night Midnight show ,Mike The relief Projectionist throws a party , so CHARLES and I go. Charles gets so wasted i have to put him to bed.His hangover is so bad Mr.Zacker and me both end up working a double.But that is the theatre business.
GEORGIA SQUARE MALL was huge compared to REGENCY in Augusta. The popcorn room at REGENCY was like a Closet. Our stock room was so small that often we would put Drink cups in the Projection Booth which teed off the operators,But there was no room. There was enought room at GEORGIA SQUARE in the Popcorn room for employees to have a desk to study by,since most of our staff was UGA students.
I noticed MIDNIGHT SHOWS were much calmer in Athens than Augusta.Even when we played ROCKY HORROR we did not have the headaches we had in Augusta.{SEE REGENCY 1,2.3.CINEMAS in Augusta.}
Bad thing about GCC we were on Salary. Had we been hourly we would have made alot more. My take home for 1983 was about $150.00 a week!That is working GCC hours sometimes a Kid movie,Regular features,and the ever present weekend midnight shows. I am also glad that GeorgiaSquare Mall 1.2.3.4. has it is own place on CT. Thanks Nick.
Yes,like so many old theatre people it is easy to go right back to work at a theatre,But withall these new theatres 20 plexs and more there might be a bit more to training. I came up to GEORGIA SQUARE between jobs and to help Mr.Zacker out.He was training the Assistant Charles Pileggi how to do an ad for the paper and he let it be known that he did not need my advice.I killed time behind the box office.Having put together ads before.Mr.Zacker was pretty good at the ads.
Another thing about the projectionists.They stayed to themselves unlike all the projectionists i had worked with in Augusta.Mr.Smith the head operator would hardly ever come in to our offices and chat.Maybe that was being a good Union man. His relief guy,Mike was the same way. Nothing wrong,Just different.
When i first arrived at GEORGIA SQUARE MALL CINEMAS i had hoped to score big on some one sheets.To my surprize there were none in the theatre.It didn’t take long to realize the posters are favorites of dorm rooms at UGA. I can count on one hand how many folks asked for one sheets in Augusta.