Buzzing Along Under the Monorail
There I was on a trip, zipping along under the monorail. It was surreal, almost psychedelic. Visions of 2001: a Space Odessey. But I get ahead of myself. Our world…
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…
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…
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…