Not in Kansas Anymore
It was a crazy month leading up to our wedding. I got pulled over by a cop one evening. It had been a long day – school in the morning…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
Vote For Citizen Kane
You have to see Citizen Kane. Or so went the watchword around any college campus in the seventies. Especially if you took any film classes. When it was announced for…
Invasion of the Body Snatchers or What Happened to my Wife
Invasion of the Body Snatchers – I’ve seen both versions of this sci-fi opus. And have a particular fondness for the seminal version. There is something about the black and…
Me and American Graffiti
The summer of 1973 was coming to a close. I was still at the Renton Cinemas working as an usher and a doorman. Changes lay around the corner though, all…
My Brother’s Accident
I was working the matinee at the Renton Cinemas the day the call came. The show was in, all the tickets torn. All that remained was guarding the entrance, standing…