Photos favorited by 50sSNIPES

  • <p>How many GCC Seaview Square employees does it take to change a lightbulb?</p>
  • <p>Shot of the marquee in Summer of 1987</p>
  • <p>A photo taken inside the Projection booth at the Manor on August 19th, 2012. This was the last day 35mm film ran at the Manor. On August 20th, 2012 the 35mm projectors were ripped out and new Digital projectors were installed. So after 65 years of film playing at the Manor … film is no more.</p>
  • <p>Tuesday night, 11pm, facing South</p>
  • <p>The Loews Park Central at its opening in 1977, 2,500 seats among the four auditoriums and designed to be energy efficient being designed in an era when that became important</p>
  • <p>December 16th, 1988</p>
  • <p>Glimpse of the Movieland marquee far left in 1981. Kodachrome 64 slide, photographer unknown. Courtesy of the 70s/80s New York City Facebook page.</p>
  • <p>The Como 8 marquee located on Union Road in Cheektowaga, NY. Picture taken in March 1980 well before the mall changed it’s name.</p>
  • <p>The closest mall entrance to the Como 8 Theaters was right here on the southeast side of the building.</p>
  • <p>This is a pic of the AMC Orleans 8 Theatre, taken in the late 1990’s.</p>
  • <p>Sandell Drive-In owner John Morrow with the theatre’s new digital projector</p>
  • <p>The Car-Vu, photograph, Date Unknown; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth34601/: accessed May 19, 2019), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Childress County Heritage Museum.</p> <p>Not my photo, of course. Uploaded as historic Fair Use. Probably public domain, but in a word, yaneverknow.</p>
  • <p>July 12th, 1946</p>
  • <p>Here I am working the booth at Sky-Vue D/I in 1978. I was 16 years old. The first reel of “Smokey and the Bandit” is running on the projector! Equipment was Century C projectors, R6 reproducers, Ashcraft Cinex Special carbon arc lamps running an 11mm trim, and Altec 287W field amplification. Those were the days…</p>
  • <p>Ben Sack’s projection booth at the Cheri at launch.</p>
  • <p>That’s Manager Tommy Fisher in the Academy booth circa 1966</p>
  • <p>South 31 Drive-In owner Sam Kantor in the booth circa 1966</p>
  • <p>Paul M. Merrill and Joe Williams in the booth in 1966</p>
  • <p>The Fox Theatre opened March 5, 1965 with Jack Lemmon in “How to Murder Your Wife” and it could play 16mm, 35mm, and 70mm</p>
  • <p>Marbro Drive-In Theatre in Chattanooga projection booth.</p>
  • <p>The Gemini Drive-In Theatre projection booth in 1965 in Dallas</p>
  • <p>Village Theatre projection booth with Norelco projectors in 1965 in Fairlawn, Ohio</p>
  • <p>Ronnie’s Drive-In projection booth in 1964 in St. Louis</p>