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…
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…
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…