Boxoffice (Oct-Dec 1963)

BATES: 20? per word, minimum $2.00, cash with copy. Four consecutive insertions for price of three. CLOSING DATE: Monday noon preceding publication date. Send copy and • answers to Box Numbers to BOXOFFTCE, 825 Van Brunt Blvd., Kansas City 24. Mo. • CLEfiRIllG HOUSE HELP WANTED Expanding first run circuit, now interviewing tor management. Deluxe first run theatres and large drive-ins. Address reply Boxoftice, 9743. Operator wanted at once. Salary $50.00 per week. Call: Ray Theatre, Tonkawa, Okla. District manager. Excellent opportunity for aggressive young man who knows film distribution and is familiar with territories of Kansas City, Oklahoma City, Des Moines, Omaha, Minneapolis, Milwaukee and St. Louis. To travel for independent compcny. Excellent salary. Please send age, photograph, experience, references and other qualifications. All replies strictly confidential. Boxoffice, 9746. Experienced projectionist. Nonunion, steady. Boxoffice, 9745. Wanted, Manager, small town theatre. Can be husband and wife combination. Unity Theatre Management Co., 3238 West Fond Du Lac Ave., Milwaukee, Wis. 53210. SALESMAN wanted to represent firm selling outdoor advertising in conjunction with theatre display frame service. Opportunity to build for future. Exclusive territory available. Contact Romar-Vide Co., Chetek. Wisconsin. Wanted: Experienced manager for Southern city. Salary, $15,000 a year. Do not apply unless fully qualified. Box office, 9755. Managers wanted. Conventional theatres, New York state. Young, aggressive assistants who have served their apprenticeship considered. Send resume, references and recent snapshot. Replies held in confidence. Boxoffice, 9756. EQUIPMENT REPAIRING All makes, all models projection equipment repaired. LOU WALTERS SALES & SERVICE CO., 4207 LAWNVIEW AVE., DALLAS 27, TEXAS. WHAT DO YOU WANT To Sell, Your Theatre? To Buy, A Theatre? A lob? A Position Open? To Buy or Sell, Equipment? Miscellaneous Articles? Whatever you want — it will pay you to advertise your needs in THE CLEARING HOUSE HERE IS YOUR HANDY "AD ORDER" BLANK BOXOFFICE 825 Van Brunt Blvd. Kansas City 24, Mo. 4 insertions at the price of 3 (Send Cash With Order) Kindly insert the following ad times in your "CLEARING HOUSE" Section, running through ALL nine sectional editions of BOXOFFICE. Blind Ads — 12c extra to cover cost of postage. CLASSIFICATION WANTED: POSITIONS WANTED POSITION WANTED: BUYER BOOKER, general management. 20 years experience. Boxoffice, 9748. Projectionist desires employment in hardtop or drive-in theatre. Excellent references. Boxoffice, 975U. GENERAL MANAGER available! Operated two 1,500-car drive-ins and one indoor house 15 years. In addition did all Buying, booking and advertising three other drive-ins in opposition same town. Desirous of change to California or Florida area. Top references. Married, 39 years ol age. Anxious lor personal interview. Boxoffice, 9751. Manager or assistant manager. Experienced, married. References, dependable and nondrinker. Seeks position with future. Preferably in South California Available immediately. Very good on exploitation Boxoffice, 9757. GENERAL EQUIPMENT— USED Lamphouses. Magnarc. Simplex HiStrong, also Standard Simplex mechanisms and movements, also pair supports for 5point bases (new), bargains. LOU WALTERS SALES AND SERVICE CO., 4207 Lawnview Ave., Dallas 27, Texas. Like newl Century CC heads. R-3 SH. A-5 amplifier, A-5 speaker system. HD bases, 80 amp. lamps, 80 amp. generator Complete, make offer. 1220 E. 7th St., Charlotte, No. Car. Used coin change machines. $25.00 up; ticket machines, $75.00 up. New Simplex or DeVry intermittent movements, $99.00. Independent Theatre Supply, 2750 East Houston, Son Antonio, Texas. For Sale: Complete drive-in equipment, consisting of XL equipment and speakers. Complete de luxe concession equipment. Only run a few years. Ideal for moving into new drive-in location. Harrv Melcher Enterprises, 3238 Fond Du Lac Ave., Milwaukee, Wis. Phone: HI 2-5020. SPECIAL! Pair DeVry 12,000 projectors, rebuilt, Suprex lamphouses, rectifiers, ready to operate, only $1,995 pair; thousand other bargains. STAR CINEMA SUPPLY, 621 W. 55th St., New York 19. TWO 200 amp Hertner generators with 20 hp motors. Excellent condition Ideal for drive-in theatre. Not compound wound, therefore must be used one generator to each lamphouse. $750 pair, FOB San Francisco. Orian Gardner, 1866 23rd Avenue, San Francisco, Calif. GENERAL EQUIPMENT— NEW "HORTSON" world famous professional 16mm sound projector, intermittent movement, 75-amps arc lamp, 5,000' reels, with ALL 35mm techniques, only $1,470.00 NEW. A "HORTSON" with Xenon lamp, operated 12 hours daily for six months at Seattle World's Fair. Just think of it! AMERICAN THEATRE SUPPLY, Distributors, 2300 1st Ave., Seattle 98121, Washington EQUIPMENT WANTED Wanted: metal screen tower, within 200 miles of Tyler, Texas. Write price and description. Jack Miller, Rt. 2, Tyler, Texas. DRIVE-IN THEATRE EQUIPMENT RAIN VISORS. Drizzle-Gards are sold in hundreds of drive-in theatres from coast to coast. Earns profit, helps business. DriView Mfg. Co., 2223 Paris Drive, Louisville 18, Ky. SOUND PROJECTION MAINTENANCE MANUAL <S MONTHLY SERVICE BULLETINS SAVE FROM 20 TO 30 per cent in projection room operation. Theatre owners, managers, projectionists, circuits, send TODAY for Trout's Loose-Leaf Service Manual and Monthly Service Sheets. Maintenance data on projectors, arc lamps, generators, lenses, screens; service data on theatre sound systems, amplifiers, preamplifiers, speakers, soundheads, drives, etc. New transistor sound systems. Data on 16, 35/70mm equipment. Course on sound servicing; schematics and pictures. Data on Xenon lamps. The "Blue Book" of the industry. Edited by the writer, 12 years technical editor of Modern Theatre. MONTHLY SERVICE SHEETS, one year, $6.50; Binder onlv $1 extra. Cash or check. No CODs. WESLEY TROUT, Publisher, Box 575, Enid, Oklahoma. THEATRES FOR SALE West Coast theatres for sale. Write lor list. Theatre Exchange Company, 260 Kearney Street, San Francisco 8, California. BARGAIN! 50 xl20' steel and concrete theatre building in Mission, near Vancouver, B.C. $35,000. $5,000 cash, balance 10 years. S. A. Lechtzier, 945 Granville, Vancouver, B. C., Canada. Open and operating. Situated in county seat; population 15,000, no competition. A-l condition, 600 seats, air conditioned, CinemaScope, cry room, large concession stand. Will show books to interested party. Send reply to Henry Kratz, 1027 West Wells Street, Milwaukee 3, Wisconsin. For Sale: 268-car drive-in theatre, in Northern Michigan resort town. Contact: Jean Brown, Box 411, Baldwin, Michigan. For sale: theatre equipment and building. Terms to right party. 400 seats, population 3,600. Howell Roberts, Wahoo Theatre, Wahoo, Nebraska. 3 Drive-Ins for salel Fairview, St. Marys, Penna.; White Way, Warren, Penna.; Huntingdon, Huntingdon, Penna. Package or individually. No window shoppers please. W. E. Anderson, Mt. Jewett, Penna. Phone 4881 or 3511. Theatre for sale. Beautiful Morro Bay, Calif., ocean resort town. Family operation. Boxoffice, 9754. THEATRES WANTED Wanted to Buy or Lease: Indoor theatre in metropolitan areas, population at least 75,000. Contact William Berger, Metropole Hotel, Cincinnati, Ohio. Wanted to Buy or Lease: Indoor theatre in Metropolitan area. Population at least 200,000. Contact Harry Wald, 506 St. Charles St., St. Louis, Mo Wanted to buy or lease by aggressive exhibitor, drive-in or indoor theatre in Southeastern section of U.S. Boxoffice receipts must be $35,000 or more per year. Would not be interested in so-called family operation. Reply: Boxoffice, 9753. Drive-in wanted. Year around operation State of Arizona, California or Texas. Will Day cash for one showing profit. Reply, Boxoffice, 9758. ANTI-THEFT SPEAKER PROTECTION ANTI-THEFT SPEAKER CABLE PRICE REDUCED! Protect your speakers-heaters to: less than 75c per unitl Complete satisfaction reported by chains and exhibitors Write: Speaker Security Compcny, 165C Willow, Hoboken, N.J. BUSINESS STIMULATORS Bingo, more action $4.50 M cards. Other games available, on, off screen. Novelty Games Co., 106 Rogers Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. Build attendance with real Hawaiian o.rchids. Few cents each. Write Flowers of Hawaii, 670 S. Lafayette Place, Los Angeles 5, Calif. Bingo Cards. Die cut 1, 75-500 combinations. 1, 100-200 combinations. Can be used for KENO, $4.50 per M. Premium Products, 339 West 44th St., New York 36, N. Y. BIG KIDDIE ATTRACTIONS. Flicker picture rings, Stooge, Tarzan, many others available. Inexpensive. Box 248, Pulaski, Wise. FILMS FOR SALE 16mm films for sale. A. B. Hembree, 276 East Twelfth Street, Cookeville, Tenn. FILMS WANTED Silent films, trade magazines. 611 North Fairfax, Los Anaeles, Calif, 35mm sound. Western feature. Good condition, name stars, price reasonable. Jergie, Rt. 4, Box 30, Salem, Oregon. PHOTO BLOWUPS PHOTO BLOWUPS in beautiful colors from your photos. Send for price list. Fast service anywhere. STITES PORTRAIT CO., Shelbyville, Indiana. POPCORN MACHINES Brand new counter model, all electric Capacity, hundred portions per hour, $199.00. Replacement kettles all machines. 120 S. Halsted, Chicago 6, 111. THEATRE SEATING Specialists in rebuilding chairs. Best workmanship, reasonable prices. Have men, will travel. Rebuilt theatre chairs lor sale. Neva Burn Products Corp., 262 South St., N.Y.C. Theatre chairs, folding chairs, tables. Box 1734, Dallas, Texas. Wanted to Buy, theatre chairs. Will remove and pay cash. W. G. Goritsan, 1114 N.W. 21st Ave., Portland, Oregon. 800 Heywood Wakefield theatre charis Good condition, sacrifice price. Write: Abe Darbose, 8 Parker St., Gardner, Mass. Telephone: 6-321115. CHAIRS REBUILT ANYWHERE! Expert workmanship, personal service, finest materials ARTHUR JUDGE, 2100 E. Newton Ave . Milwaukee, Wisconsin. THEATRE TICKETS Prompt Service. Special printed roll tickets, 100,000, $40.75; 10,000, $13.75; 2,0C0, $5.95. Each change in admission price, including change in color, $4.25 extra. Double numbering extra. F.O.B. Kansas City, Mo Cash with order. Kansas City Ticket Co., Dept. 11, 109 W. 18th St., Kansas City 8, Mo. Handy Subscription Order Form BOXOFFICE: 825 Van Brunt Blvd., Kansas City 24, Mo. Please enter my subscription to BOXOFFICE, 52 issues per year (13 of which contain The MODERN THEATRE Section). □ $3.00 FOR 1 YEAR □ $5.00 FOR 2 YEARS □ $7.00 FOR 3 YEARS □ Remittance Enclosed □ Send Invoice THEATRE STREET TOWN STATE NAME POSITION BOXOFFICE October 7, 1963 29