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Topic: Theater closing: A sad Day
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Paul G. Thompson
The Weenie Man
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Posts: 4718
From: Mount Vernon WA USA
Registered: Nov 2000
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posted 07-08-2003 10:54 PM
Yes, I just passed by Cinema 5 in Mount Vernon today. The entire interior is almost all but removed. Almost just one big shell.....it is being converted to office space.
It is still depressing for me to see it like that. When the theatre was built, I designed the projection booth and installed all the equipment. As I reported before on another thread, House No. 3 was where I was standing when an armed robbery occured when one of the robbers came into the booth pointing the business end of a .357 and marched me out of the booth. I had an old Brenkert BX-80 running in there because I was waiting for a Pro-35 to arrive for installation. I was cutting an aperature plate or it when the robbery occured.
When we got the theatre back from Plitt, we tried to save it as a dollar house. No go. We closed the theatre, removed all the seats and equipment. Most of the equipment found a home. I gave the old BX-80, the electrical raceway, and an amplifier to Josh.
Lots of memories went with that building. Mostly good, some bad.
A 7-plex closed in Everett, and last week some gentlemen from Alabama came up with two semi-trailers and removed all the equipment and seats (I presume) for construction of a theatre about 90 miles away from Evans in Huntsville, "Bammer."
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