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Author Topic: General Cinema 2-Liter Holder Daniel Fuentz Expert Film Handler Posts: 230 From: Fresno, CA, USA Registered: Apr 2003 posted 02-27-2008 12:38 AM                     I saw this outside Discount Drug Mart a while back. What was this used for?  |  IP: Logged Adam Martin I'm not even gonna point out the irony. Posts: 3686 From: Dallas, TX Registered: Nov 2000 posted 02-27-2008 01:04 AM                     I'd guess it was used to carry popcorn and soda into the auditorium to hawk them.  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 02-27-2008 06:58 PM                       GCC was one of the largest Pepsi bottlers.  |  IP: Logged Sam Graham AKA: "The Evil Sam Graham". Wackiness ensues. Posts: 1431 From: Waukee, IA Registered: Dec 2004 posted 02-27-2008 07:08 PM                        YOU FOOLS. It's a great big Lego.  |  IP: Logged Daniel Fuentz Expert Film Handler Posts: 230 From: Fresno, CA, USA Registered: Apr 2003 posted 02-27-2008 10:00 PM                     I didn't know they were in the bottling business. This was next to a bunch of Pepsi liter bottle holders, but they kept leaving it behind when they'd take their holders. It's gone, now, so someone took it...  |  IP: Logged James Westbrook Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1133 From: Lubbock, Texas, Usa Registered: Mar 2006 posted 02-28-2008 01:58 AM                     General Cinema did own some Pepsi Bottling facilities in the northeast. In the 80s, when Columbia Pictures was contemplating purchasing General Cinema, the main snag was that Columbia was a "unit of the Coca Cola Company", and thus a unit of Coke was perhaps fixing to buy some Pepsi Bottling plants...of course, it all fell through.  |  IP: Logged Joshua Waaland Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 800 From: Cleveland, Ohio Registered: Dec 1999 posted 02-28-2008 03:57 PM                     I have an old wooden crate at home with General Cinemas stamped in the side of it. My dad found it with some stuff he had and gave it to me for my screening room. It looks pretty ragged though with oil stains all over it and wood chunks out of it. I took some photos so I'll post one when I get home.  |  IP: Logged Joshua Waaland Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 800 From: Cleveland, Ohio Registered: Dec 1999 posted 02-28-2008 09:50 PM                     Here is the photo I promised.  |  IP: Logged Mike Olpin Chop Chop! Posts: 1852 From: Dallas, TX Registered: Jan 2002 posted 02-29-2008 01:18 PM                     If I saw that discarded behind a drug store it would be mine. Off topic: Anyone remember when 2-liters had the little black sleve under them? What ever happened to those? 2-liter atriums are much harder to make now.  |  IP: Logged

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