Boxoffice (Oct-Dec 1961)

RATES: 20c 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 BOXOFFICE, 825 Van Brunt Blvd., Kansas City 24, Mo. • CKflmnG HOUSE HELP WANTED EQUIPMENT WANTED Representative Wanted: To sell advertising in theatre outdoor frame service. Protected territory. Write or wire: Romar Wanted: Used theatre booth equipment. We dismantle. Leon Jarodsky, Paris, Illinois. Vide Company, Chetek, Wisconsin. Wanted: Used theatre equipment. Will Drive-in and walk-in theatre managers wonted in Southern California. Exceptional employment opportunities with a large circuit which offers pleasant working conditions and liberal medical, hospitaliza dismantle. Frank Rogers, 1122 Winton Ave., Speedway, Indiana, GENERAL EQUIPMENT— USED tion and life insurance coverage, plus an excellent retirement plan. Write Jim Barka, Pacific Drive-In Theatres Corp., 141 South Robertson Boulevard, Los Angeles 48, California. All replies will be treated in strict confidence. LAMPS, MECHANISM, LENSES, FILM CABINETS, REEL TICKET REGISTERS, TICKET REGISTERS, MOVEMENTS, RePAIRED, LOANERS FURNISHED, REPAIRED. Write or call Gardner Theatre Service, Inc., 2831 N. Clark St., Chicago 14, Illinois. Phone BU 1-0591 and BU 1-0592. MANAGER for large Kansas City drivein, year round job, no buying or booking. Must be able to supervise maintenance and handle help. Send outline of experience and a recent snapshot. Boxoffice 9360. AUTOMATIC CHANGEOVERS, WEAVER, STRONG Zipper or Thide (less switch), Pair $24.95; 2000' Film Cabinets 6, 8, 10/12 section, New Sternmade, per sec. Manager wanted for large neighborJiood, first run theatre. Experienced, ambitious. State all in first letter including background, references, etc. Boxoffice 9359. $1.95; 16" Simplex magazines top or lower $4.95. S.O.S., 602 W. 52nd, New York 19. For Sale real cheap, theatre seats. Contact A1 Boos, City Manager, Durwood Theatres, Inc., Electric Theatre Bldg., St. Joseph, Mo. Manager for de luxe theatre in South. Must know theatre operation and supervise help. No buying or booking. All answers confidential. Send full details first letter. Boxoffice 9364. Theatre closed, Quinlan, Texas. Complete booth equipment, Simplex E7, Ballantyne sound with speaker $250. Crest Theatre, Seagoville, Texas. POSITIONS WANTED LIKE NEW: Practically all equipment for complete drive-in theatre operation, including 135 amp. Ashcraft lamps, projectors and rectifiers. RCA sound system, all projection and concession equipment, display signs, and other items. No mail answered. If interested, come and see for yourself and save a lot of money. Hines Theatre, Portland, Indiana. Manager, mature, executive ability, advertising, exploitation minded, aggressive, long experience. Boxoffice 9356. Division Manager, would like new opportunity. Experienced conventional and metropolitan drive-ins. Boxoffice 9358. Northern drive-in theatre owner-manager would like managing position in Florida or South California from November 15 to April 1. Could be man-wife combi Three Holmes portable, 2 on iron stands; 150 spring cushion seats; about 40 veneers. Dean C. Trippler, Canova, S. D. nation if needed. Nine years experience in all phases. Have two theatres of our own. Boxoffice 9361. SENSAHONAL SAVINGS! Tushinsky Anamorphics, $125 pair; Brenkert Inter Projectionist: 15 years experience in all phases, conventional and drive-in operation, desires permanent employment. Single, reliable, sober and dependable. Good references. Contact Richard F. Nel heads, new, $575 pair; Magnarc lamphouses, excellent, $395 pair; Thousand values. Star Cinema Supply, 621 West 55th Street, New York 19. son, 2401 Winchester Avenue, Ashland, Kentucky. GENERAL EQUIPMENT— NEW LONG LASTING MASONITE MARQUEE LETTERS, fils all signs. Sample free. Black or red. 4"— 40c; 8"— 60c; 10"— 75c; 12"— $1.00; 14"— $1.50; 16"— $1.75; 17"— $2.00; SOUND-PROIECTION SERVICE MANUAL EXHIBITORS, PROJECTIONISTS <S REPAIRMEN: You need this Loose-Leaf Maintenance Manual on servicing all r^akes of sound and projection equipment. The only maintenance text book now available on projection and sound Additional service sheets every month for a year. Trouble-shooting charts, wiring diagrams, schematics, simplified repairing data and a gold mine of other helpful data, all for only $6.90, with a binder. Without looseleaf binder, $4.95, (Data on 16, 35 and 70mm equipment.! Written by practical engineer. Cash or P. O. Order. No CODs, 24 '—$3-00 (10% discount 100 letters, or over $60.00 list). S.O.S., 602 W. 52nd, New York 19. DRIVE-IN THEATRE EQUIPMENT ARVIN ELECTRIC-IN-CAR HEATERS. Brand new, 8 per ctn. Model T-90-1, 220 volt, 500 watts, 10 ft. cord. Price $9.75 each. Ontario Equipment Co., Toledo 1, Ohio. EQUIPMENT REPAIR SERVICE Order Now! Wesley Irout, bngineer, Box 575, Enid, Oklahoma. Quick — Easy and Wonderful! Rescue broken reflectors with Mineral Miracle. Guaranteed Gatorhidel Positively mends. BUYI SELL 1 TRADE 1 permanently! Circuits using it as showinsurance! $2.95 postpaid or we'll bill you! Gatorhide, Box 71, Joplin, Mo. UU 1 ■ OLLL ■ 1 linUL : BUSINESS STIMULATORS FIND HELP OR POSITION Bingo, more action! $4.50 M cards. Other games available, on, off screen. Novelty Games Co., 106 Rogers Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. Through Build attendance with real Hawaiian orchids. Few cents each. Write Flowers of Hawaii, 670 S. Lafayette Place, Los Angeles 5, Calif. BOXOFFICE Bingo Cards. Die cut 1, 75-500 combinations. 1, 100-200 combinations. Can be used for KENO, $4.50 per M. Premium Products, 346 West 44th St., New York 36, N. Y. Classified Advertising Greatest Coverage in the Field at Lowest Cost Per Reader 4 insertions for the price of 3 Halloween . . . Surprise Bogs . . . Masks . . . Comic Books. Free Catalog. Hecht Mfg., 184 W. Merrick Road, N. Y. HAND CUT "ANIMA'TED" MIDGET CHRIS'TMAS CARDS expressing greetings ol the season and plugging HOLIDAY PROGRAMS. Guaranteed to create unusual interest. 500 — $20.00, 1,000 — $30.00 (Theatre and Mgrs. name imprinted) SAMPLE FREE. Order now or before Nov. 15. Longhorn Card Co., Box 733, Bates1 ville. Ark. THEATRES FOR SALE THEATRE SEATING West Coast theatres for sale. Write for list. Theatre Exchange Company, 260 Kearny Street, San Francisco 8, California. Good used late model chairs available, rebuilt chairs. Chairs rebuilt in your theatre by our factory trained men, get our low prices. Parts for all makes of chairs. Sewed covers made to your size, also leatherette 25"x25", 55c ea.; 27"x27", 65c ea. Chicago Used Chair Mart, 829 South State Street, Chicago. Phone WE 9-4519 Modern Theatre, glass Iront, bull! 1949, 500 American seats, air-conditioned, Abingdon, Illinois. Sacrifice price. Write Warren Pirtle, Jetseyville, Illinois. North theatre, Danville, Virginia. Built and opened m 1947. 609 seats, parking lot adjoining theatre. Owner Leonard Lea, Danville, Virginia. Chairs rebuilt in your theatre, re-spacing, sewed covers. Arthur Judge, 2100 E. Newton Avenue, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. On Indian reservation in a fast growing community, one drive-in theatre for sale, terms available. Present owner with no theatre experience. Contact Wreyford Business Service, John E. Wreyford, Accountant, Box 567, Aztec, New Mexico. Indoor and drive*in theatres for sale. Bargain. Town 7,000 population. Well worth price. Selling on account of tragedy SEAT RENOVATING: Neat, fast reasonable, anywhere. Sewed combination seat covers. Service Seating Co., 1525 West Edsel Ford, Detroit 8, Michigan. Tyler 8-9481, Texas 4-2738. 900 pushback (Kroehler) chairs, entirely rebuilt, enameled, like new. Chicago Used Chair Mart, 829 So. State Street, Chicago 5, Illinois. responsible party. Contact Texas Theatre, Jasper, Texas, Mr. Fain. BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES For Rent or Sale: 24 fully equipped Brunswick lanes, well established operating business, choicest location . . . and . . . 50'xl20' steel & concrete theatre in Mission, B. C. "LaSalle," 945 Granville Street, Vancouver, B. C. 500-seat theatre, 300-car drive-in, Hiawatha, Kansas; 600-seat theatre, 400-car drive-in. Falls City, Nebraska. 'Towns 18 miles apart. O. C. Johnson, Falls City, Nebraska. THEATRES FOR SALE OR LEASE Opening lor Bowling Alley in connection with moving pictures. Good location. Box* office 9366. 420 seat Center Theotre, Marlette, Michigan, fully equipped. Also apartment. A real opportunity here. Write Ashmun Theatres, Caro, Michigan. INTERMISSION TAPES WEEKLY TAPE SERVICE: Intermission tapes that sparkle . . . guaranteed to sell . . . customized . . . free sample. Commercial Sound Service, P. O. Box 5, Sulphur Springs, Texas. For Lease: 550-seot theatre in In dianapolis, Indiana. Write Frank Rogers. 1122 'Winton Avenue, Speedway, Indiana. THEATRES WANTED POPCORN MACHINES Wanted: To buy or lease drive-in the atres, 500-car capacity or larger. Boxoffice 9238. Popcorn machines# all makes. Complete new popping units, $185.00 ex. Replacement kettles, all machines. 120 So. Hoisted, Chicago, 111. Wanted: To lease or buy indoor theatres, metropolitan areas, population at least 75,000. Contact William Berger, Metropolitan Hotel, Cincinnati, Ohio. MARQUEE LETTER REPAIRING Wanted to lease: Drive-in or indoor theatre, with possible option to buy. Year 'round operation, town population 3,000 or more. Family operation. Boxoffice 9357. Plastic Weld will repair broken Plastic Marquee Letters. National Theatre Supply or Plastic Weld, Eastland, Texas. Interested in buying or leasing theatres throughout U. S. with population of 75,(100 or more. Contact Leroy Griffith or Gerald Allen, Little Art Theatre, 120 W. Berry Street, Ft. Wayne, Indiana. Handy Subscription Order Form BOXOFnCE: 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 n $5.00 FOR 2 YEARS □ $7.00 FOR 3 YEARS O Remittance Enclosed □ Send Invoice THEATRE STREET TOWN STATE. . . Wanted to Lease or Buy ind-oor theatres, metropolitan areas. Population at least 75,000. Contact William Berger, Metropole Hotel, Cincinnati, Ohio. Will buy or lease small town theatre with space rentals and apartments. Interested mostly in southwestern states. Send details to Boxoffice 9363. Wonted: To buy drive-in theatre, 350car capacity or larger. P. O. Box 171, Saskatoon, Sask., Canada. Want to lease theatre — Central or East Texas. Over 20 years experience, all phases. Reed Whatley, 4115 Dumbonton Road, Houston 25, Texas. Wanted to lease indoor theatres in Philadelphia exchange area. Boxoffice 9365. FILMS WANTED Silent Movies . . . Wanted . . . Negatives, prints. Sherman, 2120 E. 177, NYC 72. Want to Buy or Rent 16mm — 35mm, 2nd run Action Pictures in Color. 'Write: George Boscan, P. O. Box 66, Maracaibo, Venezuela. THEATRE TICKETS POSITION Prompt Service. Special printed roll tickets. 100,000, $37,95; 10,000, $12.75; 2,000, $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 Street, Kansas City 8, Mo. BOXOFFICE :: October 16. 1961 r-29