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Topic: Globe Tickets closes!
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Bob Maar
(Maar stands for Maartini)
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Posts: 28608
From: New York City & Newport, RI
Registered: Feb 2001
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posted 07-25-2001 06:37 PM
So if I have told you this story before click off and go to another thread. Back in the mid sixties everyone used an automaticket machine. Our theatre checking service kept telling me that the Hippodrome theatre in Baltimore was selling out. Well since our B.O. Statements did not show sellouts, so the second weekend I went to Baltimore to check the theatre. Across from the Hippodrome was a sleezy hotel, the type you can rent by the minute. So I rented a room overlooking the marquee and box office of the theatre. I pulled a chair up to the dirty window, tool out my handy people counter clicker and waited for sales to the next show to begin. I watched and clicked as the patrons entered the theatre, the Hippodrome had(I could be wrong) 4000 seats. A big house with balcony, mezzanine and loge. Well, ladies and gentleman, an usher appeared saying the next Show was sold out. Well according to my calculation they still had PLENTY of seats. So, guess who went to the movies and pulled a ticket audit. Yes GM even did that in those days. And no I am not an accountant. Well to make a long story a little shorter. I purchased my tickets from National. My manager purchased his tickets from the other major ticket supplier. Then he spliced into the National Tickets two for me and one for him. Caught, Prosecuted and in 1966...15 years. Passed away 12 years later. Do I feel bad? Absolutely not.
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