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Topic: What is the current Pepsi Trailer?
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Tony Troidl
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From: North Collins, NY, USA
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 04-06-2002 12:03 AM
Hell, I've been trying to get a NEW pepsi trailer for a Drive-in for YEARS! They did get me SLIDES last year, (no good to me) before it finally broke 2 years ago we had "let's go to the movies" and they never got us a newer one! If anyone knows who I can contact and where to get a Pepsi trailer let me know, cause pepsi Co. in buffalo was a waist of time.... Thanks! Tony.
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Tony Troidl
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posted 04-08-2002 02:43 PM
Cool! Thats the one! hey, I'm sure you remember the cool colored beads and Porno Pics on the walls etc... Looks a bit better thease days, (not a lot)
Will have to take pics to post of it. I'm sure you remember the Intermission reel we have then too! Has gotten a bit shorter every year... We lost the Pic one like 5 years ago, and when we switched to pepsi we lost the Coke and Sprite trailers... Small world I guess!
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John Pytlak
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posted 04-08-2002 03:44 PM
Tony said: "hey, I'm sure you remember the cool colored beads and Porno (Playboy) Pics on the walls etc..."They're still there? After 32 years?  The booth and rectifier room decorations were NOT my doing, but rather that of our chief projectionist (Carl S., the MOPAR man in black, if you know who I mean  ). Remember, the 60's were the days of "hippies" and "flower power", and he thought the beads and boobs were  . If you are still using the SAME intermission reel, that's amazing! Haven't been back in that booth in decades --- what's the current equipment being used? Still have the Century C's? I assume they converted to a platter and xenon lamphouse years ago. What do you use for the sound? The original AM transmitter was my home-brew, and one of the first in NY state.  ------------------
John P. Pytlak, Senior Technical Specialist
Worldwide Technical Services, Entertainment Imaging
Research Labs, Building 69, Room 7525A
Rochester, New York, 14650-1922 USA
Tel: +1 585 477 5325 Cell: +1 585 781 4036 Fax: +1 585 722 7243
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Tony Troidl
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posted 04-09-2002 02:45 PM
hehehe,
No, the Porn and beads are LONG gone....
Yup, the good old days!
Still have the C's. removed the old carbon arc's in '81 and put in Knisley 3K's, NO Platter though. just 26" reels... I think he is worried about too much dust causing problems? AM sound is an Autorad II put in same time as Xenon's, FM is stereo system I built and have updated several times over the past 5 or 10 years.
We still have that old home Brew AM unit sitting there, it may even still work? I recall it burning up a few times, man did that smell! Not much Int. Reel left as I said some we lost some we had to remove when we went Pepsi... Things were So bad, that last year I had to pull an Old Coke trailer out, and go frame by frame and remove anything coke related so we had SOMETHING to play for Intermission! I ended up ordering some new stuff from Drive-in film.com now, but still need more.
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John Pytlak
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posted 04-09-2002 03:19 PM
Tony said: "Still have the C's. removed the old carbon arc's in '81 and put in Knisley 3K's, NO Platter though. just 26" reels... I think he is worried about too much dust causing problems?"Those Century Model C's were from the original installation, dating back to about 1953! Just like the "Energizer Bunny", they just keep on going, and going, and going...! The old long-gone "Skyway" drive-in was the twin of the Grandview, with the same equipment package. Sorry to hear the 11 mm Ashcraft carbon lamps were replaced with only a 3000 watt xenon. At 120 amps on the carbons, we could really light that big 100-foot screen, especially in scope! Not surprised that AM transmitter with those hot 6JE6 beam power tubes in the final amplifier finally went up in smoke. If you didn't tune the final properly, the plates would glow red.  Coupled to the water-logged underground sound wires, we easily covered the lot. If you hooked it to a "real" antenna, you could probably entertain Canadians across Lake Erie! I lost track of Carl S. (the MOPAR man in black who was chief projectionist) a few years after I moved to Rochester. Please contact me off-line if you know where he is living/working now. ------------------
John P. Pytlak, Senior Technical Specialist
Worldwide Technical Services, Entertainment Imaging
Research Labs, Building 69, Room 7525A
Rochester, New York, 14650-1922 USA
Tel: +1 585 477 5325 Cell: +1 585 781 4036 Fax: +1 585 722 7243
E-Mail: john.pytlak@kodak.com
Web site: http://www.kodak.com/go/motion
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Tony Troidl
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posted 04-09-2002 03:43 PM
I don't think they were ashcraft arc's, I'm trying to remember...
I think they are in storage yet? Will have to look now! Didn't Skyway have Generator type rectifiers? Been gone quite a while... Yeah, 4K Xenon would have been better, But Mr. Cohen thought it would be simpler not to have to water cool the projectors anymore, and they said we had to if we went 4K.... bummer! One NICE thing, No more horns blowing when a carbon burnt off or had a bubble or....
Those C's are like a tank, and will let just about any junk film run thru them (as our intermission reel shows)
one intermittent went on us around 4 years or so ago, but ther than that.... I'll be sure to get some pictures, the screen has seen better days, needs new metal, but he had it repainted last fall so.... Damn big screen, 120' x 40' don't think I've ever seen one bigger! Tony.
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That was cool when Regal had her in front of arthouse fare. Maybe Pepsi can bring her back for use by Landmark and the Angelika.
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