Comments from Meredith Rhule

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Meredith Rhule commented about Showcase Cinema DeLux Farmingdale 14 on Dec 18, 2008 at 10:48 pm

The booth and equipment are very nice. I miss working there.

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Meredith Rhule commented about Linden Boulevard Multiplex Cinemas on Dec 18, 2008 at 10:43 pm

saps, get this. The chief took apart a lens and put it back together with all the elements backwards and a drop of oil on one of the lenses inside. He said something was wrong. I sent it into the manufacturer, and they told me what he did. ummm haaaahehehehe The also have a girl projectionist that looks like a 60 year old Stevie Nicks from Fleetwood Mac. She never wears a bra up there but she wears her 1960 hippie hat. ohhh hahahaha

:( sorry

However, they are nice people in that crazy busy place… I miss them actually.

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Meredith Rhule commented about Big Cinemas-Movie City on Dec 18, 2008 at 10:29 pm

Yes it is Fred. We did a lot to get the booth up-to-shape. Good place and good people working there.

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Meredith Rhule commented about Cinepolis Parsippany on Dec 18, 2008 at 10:26 pm

Booth runs well, not a bad place. Check it out…

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Meredith Rhule commented about Loew's Jersey Theatre on Dec 18, 2008 at 10:23 pm

Wanna be in Hollywood? This is as good as it gets!

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Meredith Rhule commented about Newton Theatre on Dec 18, 2008 at 10:08 pm

Nice place for an older place. The owner knows what he doing. The booth is not bad and the management is far better than the last. The theater is GREAT!

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Meredith Rhule commented about Cinemark Hazlet 12 on Dec 18, 2008 at 9:59 pm

Yeah, ask for Bill Wilson, and tell him Meredith said, “Hello Buddy.” One of the best theaters I can ever remember servicing. It is that great. And, they have a NEW million-dollar snack bar installed. The place is ran like, well, like theaters used to be run! I love this place. Tell Bill Hello!

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Meredith Rhule commented about Amboy Multiplex Cinemas on Dec 18, 2008 at 9:50 pm

I was the New Jersey and New York service technician. I would go into Amboy to take equipment and share them with other working theaters. Get this, at certain points in the booth, you can look to the outside because the walls are cracking. In the lobby, the concession stand drops over a foot from one end to the other. The place is sinking! Yikes… The booth was very nice, however, people have broken into it to steal copper wiring.

that is all, sweet dreams…

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Meredith Rhule commented about UA Farmingdale Stadium 10 on Dec 18, 2008 at 9:36 pm

Good equipment in the booth. I miss Jerry Lewis, the old projectionist there. Fun place to work!

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Meredith Rhule commented about AMC Glen Cove 6 on Dec 18, 2008 at 9:29 pm

The booth runs well, not too bad of equipment.

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Meredith Rhule commented about Green Acres Cinemas on Dec 18, 2008 at 9:16 pm

moviefriend73, do you remember the projectionist’s stuff in the booth about B-rated horror films? ehh, hehehe. I was the projection techinican there. His booth is like walking into a director’s louge. Nice Italian guy, but what a riot.

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Meredith Rhule commented about Whitestone Multiplex Cinemas on Dec 18, 2008 at 9:05 pm

I was their projection technician, as with all theaters in New Jersey and New York, until I got enough sense to quit. Theaters were split and added. It was running good when I left.

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Meredith Rhule commented about Holly Cinema on Dec 18, 2008 at 8:48 pm

John Oblinger or Steve Gates, what happened to him? Did one of you guys pop him? hehehehe

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Meredith Rhule commented about UA Lynbrook 6 on Dec 18, 2008 at 8:38 pm

zzzzzzz

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Meredith Rhule commented about S.V.A. Theatre on Apr 12, 2008 at 8:45 pm

saps, if I go to work there, are you coming over to visit? ;)

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Meredith Rhule commented about Bow Tie Cinemas to reopen American Theater on Apr 12, 2008 at 8:40 pm

I am the field service technician at American Theater, and Joe is going all out to enhance this Cinema Treasure! Hip-Hip

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Meredith Rhule commented about S.V.A. Theatre on Mar 24, 2008 at 11:26 pm

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Meredith Rhule commented about UA Lynbrook 6 on Jan 27, 2006 at 11:05 am

I believe the place is non-union now.

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Meredith Rhule commented about Pacific's Hastings 8 on Jan 27, 2006 at 10:57 am

When I did relief projection between Pacific’s and Mann’s down the street, it was awkward running Pacific’s because the regular projectionist actually lived in the booth. He had one of those fold-up, drop-down beds. Forget what you call them now. Anyway, the union only let operators work a certain amount of hours, so on the days that I worked, the poor guy didn’t know what to do with himself. Yes, that huge auditorium was freezing.

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Meredith Rhule commented about Alhambra Twin Cinemas on Jan 27, 2006 at 10:47 am

When I was the projectionist there, Jerry Brown was governor and dating Linda Ronstadt, the singer. Well, Ronstadt’s cousin was the manager here at that time. She and I had a blast. We even had to throw out her boyfriend a few times because he interferred with our working so well together… tee-hee… Oops

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Meredith Rhule commented about Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower Place on Jan 27, 2006 at 10:34 am

This place was great in the 70s. Everything in the booth was brand spanking new. We used 6,000 foot reels to make changeovers, rather than 2,000 foot reels. Wow! The only place more automated was the Marina with its… shhh… platters. This was a classy place in its day to see a movie.

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Meredith Rhule commented about Circle Drive-In on Jan 27, 2006 at 10:22 am

I loved running film here. You could be at the beach or “PIKE” during the day and go run movies with a cool ocean breeze at night. It didn’t even seem like work… boohoo

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Meredith Rhule commented about AMC Dine-In Theatres Marina 6 on Jan 8, 2006 at 3:23 pm

In 1987, I came over to open the Cineplex Odeon Marina Marketplace. Wes Stockman was the manager at the time. This art-deco place had marble floors, beautiful lighting and a really cool cafe. You could order expresso, have spaghetti, a salad or one of their fine pastries. Finally, you could sit down and enjoy your meal in its own dining area.

Here, with my partner Bob Seeling, we put on a great show in what we had considered to be the best-run, high-tech projection booth in the city. Also, it was the first computerized projection booth in the nation. Oh, and yes, we had curtains to close and re-open between the coming attractions and feature presentation.

Garth Drabinsky, the C.E.O. for Cineplex, said that if we make this thing work, we would have a job for life. We made it work with pride, and Cineplex really took care of us. The 2,500 square foot booth floor was stripped and polished weekly. You could eat off the floor.

It had its own water filter for the coffee maker and a desk for the computer. There were no fingerprints on the walls because we enforced keeping it spotless. Bob and I even won an award from the union for having the best running projection room in the local.

This place hired only off-duty L.A.P.D. detectives for its plain-clothed security. Mark Fuhrman of the O.J. Simpson trial was one of them. It was pretty common to see a couple officers escorting celebrities to and from auditoriums.

In addition to regular public showings of movie releases, the studios would rent auditoriums to do Audience Response Screenings (ARS) and get public feedback while in a film’s production. Then, they would alter a film’s production and make changes based on the questionaires that were handed out to be filled-out by the audience at the end of the screenings. The stars of the films being screened would typically hang-out in the projection booth and peek out the port windows to see the audience’s responses.

Between regular public showings and weekly studio premieres and screenings, the Marina Marketplace was making tons of money. We were all very proud of our baby.

Unfortunately, Drabinsky ended up in prison. Next, Loews bought out Cineplex Odeon in 1991 and threw out the union projectionists and off-duty officers. Today, it is ran like any other ordinary theater, and the stars don’t come out to play here anymore.

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Meredith Rhule commented about UA Lynbrook 6 on Jan 8, 2006 at 2:13 pm

Hi Saps and Ed. Yes, I still pop in and check out the posts, only now I do it from South Carolina. Take Care y'ALL!!!

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Meredith Rhule commented about Picwood Theatre on Aug 25, 2005 at 5:15 pm

Did the Bel-Air circuit myself, as William knows.

Since we are mentioning people like Rick Pollard, Mike Schleiger and Lou Honeycutt, does anyone remember Peterson at Pacific or his son at Disney?

Was a dj at the first FM rock station in 1967. It was KTBT. Graduated from I.B.A. (Institute of Broadcast Arts) in Garden Grove, a joint venture between Gary Owens and Hugh Downs.