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Richard Fowler
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posted 11-02-2003 12:48 AM
The former U.A. 150 in Carolina Puerto Rico still had the original D-150 lenses and construction blueprints in storage prior to closing. The screen had a four way masking system for 1.37 / 1.85 / 2.35 anamorphic and D-150. The location suffered from years of U.A. neglect and was bought out by Caribbean Cinemas which injected $450,000 in improvements. Our former company installed new 35 & 70mm projection ( from DP-75 and 4kw ORC in the D-150 to Cinemeccanica V-8/35-70mm and Christie lamphouse at 6kw / dual machine + platter ) and ( DTS, Dolby Digital, SDDS-8 )sound in the five plex ( original D-150 house + added U.A. shoebox cinemas in an additional building.UA special Bauers / ORC consoles to Cinemeccanica V-5 + consoles ). In addition to myself and staff, I recruited the late Alysson Defaria, then of U.A. to finish the project. The cinema survived a few more years but had to close due to structural weakening and higher maintinance cost due to hurricane damage which would have required $500,000 ( including replacing seats, drapes, main curtain, air conditioning, roof rebuilding ) to fix. The center had poor parking for a 780 seat D-150 house and we had built 29 cinemas within 10 minutes of this location over the years. It was a grand dame to the end. I remember driving many miles to St. Petersburg Florida D-150 cinema ( name which escapes me....getting senile ), an independent operator, to see Patton. I remember the "painted on" steadyness of the flag on the screen as Patton walks on stage.
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Steve Kraus
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posted 11-02-2003 10:01 PM
D-150 Theatres
Source: The International Cinerama Society theater listing 20th edition.
Sukhumuit...............Bangkok, Thailand Cine Sabena.............Bogota, Columbia UA Trumbull.............Bridgeport, CT USA Von Riebeek.............Cape Town, South Africa River Oaks..............Calumet City (Chicago), IL USA UA Cinema 150...........Oak Brook (Chicago), IL USA UA Cinema 150...........Colorado Springs, CO USA 3 Falke Bio.............Copenhagen Denmark UA Cinema 150...........Dallas, TX USA Continental.............Denver CO USA United Artists..........Detroit, MI USA UA Groton 150...........Groton, CT USA Cine 150................Laredo, Mexico UA Lefrak...............Lefrak City, NY USA UA Cinema 150...........Little Rock, AR USA Odeon Marble Arch.......London England Egyptian................Los Angeles, CA USA Rialto..................Louisville, KY USA UA......................Louisville, KY USA Cine Latino D-150.......Mexico City Mexico Loews State.............New York, NY USA Rivoli..................New York, NY USA Camelot.................Palm Springs, CA USA Metro...................Panama City, Panama Century 21..............Pleasant Hill, CA USA Cine Variedades.........Puebla Mexico Metro Boavista..........Rio de Janeiro Brazil Cinema 150..............Sacramento, CA USA UA Cinema 150...........San Juan Puerto Rico Northgate...............San Rafael, CA USA Cinema 150..............Santa Clara, CA USA UA Cinema 150...........Seattle, WA USA UA Cinema 150...........Syosset USA Continental.............Tulsa, OK USA Cinema 3................West Springfield, VA USA UA Cinema...............White Plains, MD USA
Edit: typo fixed [ 11-04-2003, 04:04 PM: Message edited by: Steve Kraus ]
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