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Author Topic: Lookout L.A. -- here we come! or "Is there Chick-Fil-A in LA?" Scott D. Neff Theatre Dork Posts: 919 From: San Francisco, CA Registered: Oct 1999 posted 04-28-2003 05:16 PM                        It looks like Adam has finally convinced me to stop procrastinating and to stop being wishy washy and finally commit to taking the drive to Los Angeles and go on the photo / research trip to end all photo / research trips. We're aiming to leave ?NoCal? Friday afternoon and be in Valencia where my friend Ken lives around 7 or 8. We're going to spend the weekend touring some of the more noteworthy theatres that Adam has never seen before (Chinese, Cinerama Dome, Westwood Village etc.) and then getting some of those hard to reach theatres and taking pictures. So if you, or anybody you know, would like to meet up with us and check out some of the greater Los Angeles theatres, please contact Adam Martin or myself for coordination. Especially if YOU or somebody you know has access to projection booths and can give tours of them. (Brad promised he'd give Adam and I each a new toaster if we could get 5 new tours each for him!)  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 04-28-2003 09:22 PM                        How do you get the "tours" if the management of the theater doesn't want you taking pictures? Mann has never been fond of pictures or even cameras of any sort on the premesis. Of course that never stopped me since I worked there. Anyway I'd really like to know the spiel you guys typically give to get inside.  |  IP: Logged Adam Martin I'm not even gonna point out the irony. Posts: 3686 From: Dallas, TX Registered: Nov 2000 posted 04-28-2003 09:26 PM                     We could tell you, but then we'd have to kill you with an overdose of Chick-fil-A.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 04-29-2003 04:35 AM                        OK. So tell me.  |  IP: Logged Bill Gabel Film God Posts: 3873 From: Technicolor / Postworks NY, USA Registered: Jan 2002 posted 04-29-2003 09:37 AM                     The Chick-Fil-A site also has a trip planner. http://www.chickfila.com/home.asp [ 04-29-2003, 07:15 PM: Message edited by: Bill Gabel ]  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 04-29-2003 01:53 PM                     We have them here in Utah...nothing special at all. Their billboards are clever though...I wish the food was as good as the signs. Mark  |  IP: Logged Scott D. Neff Theatre Dork Posts: 919 From: San Francisco, CA Registered: Oct 1999 posted 04-29-2003 06:38 PM                        The speil is usually "I need to use the bathroom." Which believe it or not, no matter if I just went, there's something about walking up to a theatre I've never been inside before that makes me need to pee. That is to say that I have been conditioned to ACTUALLY go to the bathroom because every time I go in and tell them I need to use the bathroom so Adam can take pictures while he waits for me, I figure "What the hell... I'm here... I might as well go!". The other one is to actually pick a really cool theatre we want pictures of to see a movie at. No matter how adamant people are about it, they can't stop us from taking pictures any more than they can stop teenagers from seeing 5 movies in one day. It's just a matter of somebody patrolling and keeping an eye out, something that many theatres just don't do enough of. But seriously though -- there have GOT to be some projectionists lurking here who would love to get their booth on film-tech. If WE take the pictures... then it's not YOUR fault they made it here...  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 04-29-2003 07:09 PM                        Well I really hope that you are able to get updated pictures on the Chinese. They've been through so many remodels I wonder what they have upstairs by now. I wonder if they are still using "Monster Cable" to run from their amps to their speakers? Check it out if you can.  |  IP: Logged

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