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Author Topic: What would you buy if you won the lottery? Joe Elliott Master Film Handler Posts: 497 From: Port Orange, Fl USA Registered: Oct 2006 posted 07-22-2011 08:51 PM                     Or made it big. Here's what I would want. Capstan automated table  |  IP: Logged Joe Elliott Master Film Handler Posts: 497 From: Port Orange, Fl USA Registered: Oct 2006 posted 07-23-2011 12:13 PM                     And of course an aquada, but I do live by the ocean, so water transport sometimes is a must. If I still lived in the Midwest, not so much. Gibson Aquada  |  IP: Logged Edward Havens Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 614 From: Los Angeles, CA Registered: Mar 2008 posted 07-23-2011 02:15 PM                     Depends on how much I won. If it was only a few million, I'd buy a home in Berkeley while my wife gets her law degree at Berkeley. If it were a few hundred million, I'd build me my own movie theatre in my home town.  |  IP: Logged Bruce Hansen Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 847 From: Stone Mountain, GA, USA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 07-23-2011 08:35 PM                     I would spend some time figering out where I want to live, then find (or build) the right house to buy.  |  IP: Logged Robert E. Allen Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1078 From: Checotah, Oklahoma Registered: Jul 2002 posted 07-24-2011 12:05 PM                     Either buy a restored or restore an art deco single screener and program it for the benefit of the community. Then build a lovely home for my wife of 41 years with plenty of room for my ten grandchildren.  |  IP: Logged Geoff Jones Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 579 From: Broomfield, CO, USA Registered: Feb 2006 posted 07-24-2011 03:43 PM                        I'd buy some land and then build a big single screen theatre that only showed older movies. Constant height 70' wide screen with a curtain. Booming audio. Raiders, Jaws, ET, Terminators, Alienses, Back to the Futureses. Wizard of Oz. Die Hard. Stuff that no one should see on the boob tube. I'd cycle through them all year long and then start over each year, mixing and matching along the way. And I'd dig up some private copies of the original versions of the Star Wars films. I'd set aside half of my winnings to account for all the money it would lose over the years. Oh, and I would also buy Joe to run the booth.  |  IP: Logged Sam Graham AKA: "The Evil Sam Graham". Wackiness ensues. Posts: 1431 From: Waukee, IA Registered: Dec 2004 posted 07-24-2011 07:37 PM                        A pound of delicious cheese. I mean, I bought four pounds yesterday...but then I'd have FIVE.  |  IP: Logged Aaron Garman Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1470 From: Toledo, OH USA Registered: Mar 2003 posted 07-24-2011 10:34 PM                     I'd probably find an old palace and re-open it to show classics that deserve to be shown there. I'd invest the rest and live off the interest. Oh, and I too might offer to buy Joe to run the cinema. AJG  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 07-24-2011 11:37 PM                        Sorry. I've already committed to running Geoff's cinema. It would be in Colorado, after all. Also, it would be a new build where I could consult in its design. An "old palace" would have the projectors pointing nearly straight down. the hell with that. Instead of discussing with other projectionists whether I thread top-down or bottom-up, I'd have to discuss if I threaded left to right or right to left.  |  IP: Logged John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 07-25-2011 03:21 PM                     I always thread right to left in old palaces. Any other way is incorrect.  |  IP: Logged Mike Heenan Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1896 From: Scottsdale, AZ, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 07-27-2011 11:13 AM                     Two chicks at one time.  |  IP: Logged Sean Weitzel Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 619 From: Vacaville, CA (1790 miles west of Rockwall) Registered: Dec 1999 posted 07-27-2011 11:48 AM                     I would hope to have enough to pay off all debts for those family and friends near and dear to me. Buy housing for them as well, then build a cinema for myself on my land. If there was any left over, drop it in some investment accounts, and also send some to charities.  |  IP: Logged

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