Burning Hellzapoppin’
This all took place on a Saturday morning. I was not scheduled to work at the Fifth Avenue theater (not the matinee anyway). We had some time
The Stagehand of the Fifth Avenue
Union agreements required that the Fifth Avenue Theater employ a stagehand. I was not aware of this fact, when I met Walter Theron Coy my first week on the job.…
DOWN IN THE CANYONS OF SEATTLE
We were canyon dwellers in Seattle, and spent the majority of our time in the one canyon called Fifth Avenue. Out where our apartment was located the canyon was a…
Working the Fifth Avenue
As I mentioned in my last Memories post, I left the UA Cinemas and began a job as assistant manager for Mann’s Fifth Avenue in Seattle. It wasn’t an exercise…
Thunderball, Mr. French
We had a color TV in our little two room apartment. It sat on its own little cart with casters and we could wheel it from the sitting room through…
Expo ’74 Spokane and Hank Fonda
Sometime in the summer of 1974 we took a little roadtrip. My wife and I packed up the Roadrunner and headed east. We stopped down in Renton and borrowed her…
SWASHBUCKLER
The long drawn out rasp of metal on metal accompanied the image of the sword being drawn from its scabbard. So began Richard Lester’s The Three Musketeers. Throughout the title…
Confessions of an Assistant Theater Manager
Early in 1973, I had switched from being a doorman at the single screen theater, the Cinerama, to a job as assistant manager for the UA Cinema 150 and 70…
Viewing Star Wars
The blockbuster film ‘Star Wars’ opened to the public on May 25th 1977 – the Wednesday before Memorial weekend. But I saw it before the public did, because that was…
Apartment on the Monorail
Some people can look back with nostalgia about living in New York on the elevated train, or in Chicago on the El. We look back with fondness on our first…