Dad and the Duke
One of the perks of working in the theater business, besides watching films for free during the run, is to be invited to its premiere before it opens. Oftentimes they…
The Year Was 1938 – July 26
Born on This Day News Around Hollywood Outside Hollywood Tombstone AZ has put itself up for sale. Once a town of 7000, it is now only a village of 500.…
SINGING IN THE RAIN IN SEATTLE
I may have been beginning my junior year in college, but I was probably at the post graduate level for viewing films, all thanks to the Harvard Exit. Around town…
The Year Was 1938 – July 25
NEWS AROUND HOLLYWOOD PER ED SULLIVAN ITEMS OF INTEREST (to me)
Hitchcock and Me
I had to do some research to nail down the time period that I was at the Cinerama theater. As I mentioned in a former post, the theater changed hands…
The Year Was 1938 – July 24
NEWS AROUND HOLLYWOOD REPORTED ON THIS DATE Yesterday, 7/23/1938, five Hollywood stunt women earned $150 a piece for one minute’s work at 20th Century Fox, on the set built to…
Just Trying to Help
I worked with an interesting set of people at the Cinerama. Jack Hamacher was the manager, but I did not see him much after he hired me. He was more…
The Year Was 1938 – July 23
NEWS AROUND HOLLYWOOD ON THE MOVE OUTSIDE HOLLYWOOD
The Really Big Screen
I was no longer working at the GCC Renton Village Cinemas. After a brief hiatus as a sales clerk in a bookstore at South Center in Tukwila (made brief by…