Boxoffice (Oct-Dec 1963)

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HATES: 20? per word, minimum $2.00, cash with copy. Four consecutive insertions lor 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. • CLfflRMG HOUSE HELP WANTED Experienced projectionist. Nonunion, steady. Boxoffice, 9745. 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. 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. Manageri Experienced for first run theatre in town of 40,000. Berger Amusement Co., 317 Plymouth Bldg., Minneapolis 2, Minn. Manager! Expanding circuit in midwest area needs experienced men. Excellent opportunity for aggressive showmen. Drive-in theatre experience preferred. Send complete resume, references, recent snapshot and salary requirements. All replies strictly confidential. Boxoffice, 9759. Theatre manager, male or female for Chicago south side art house! Salary open. Write: H. Schoenstadt & Sons, Inc., 1118 South Michigan Ave., Chicago 5, 111., or call HArrison 7-3034. WANTED: All 'round theatre employe over 45. Capable of cleaning, general maintenance, working in concession and operating part time. Year 'round employment with apartment furnished. Good salary. Send full details, photograph, experience and references. No children. Must be permanent. Drunks or drifters need not apply. Boxoffice, 9765. POSITIONS WANTED Exploitation and promotion minded. 12 years managerial experience. Seeking permanent position in northeast. Boxoffice, 9761 Supervisor or General Manager. Top showman and man who loves to work, desires position as general manager or supervisor of small chain of theatres. Age 32, married. With same company 11 years. Presently own three theatres but am selling. Prefer the "Carolinas" or Florida. Top references. Boxoffice, 9768. FILMS WANTED Silent films, trade magazines. 611 North Fairfax, Los Angeles, Calif. PHOTO BLOWUPS PHOTO BLOWUPS in beautiful colors from your photos. Send for price list. Fast service anywhere. STITES PORTRAIT CO., Shelbyville, Indiana. BUY! SELL! TRADE! FIND HELP OR POSITION Through BOXOFFICE Classified Advertising Greatest Coverage in the Field at Lowest Cost Per Reader 4 insertions for the price of 3 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. 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. 55tn St., New York 19. Equipment from 2 well equipped and maintained theatres. Will sell as units or in part. 350 very good spring and upholstered seats. Economy Electric Company, 502 16th Avenue, N., Clinton, Iowa. Priced for quick sale! Heavy duty Simplex bases, RCA sound, Altec Voice of Theatre speaker, Simplex projectors, Brenkert Enarc lamps, Strong 50-70 amp rectifiers, complete, $900. Box 32, North Creek, N Y. Phone: 3801 EQUIPMENT REPAIRING All makes, all models projection equipment repaired. LOU WALTERS SALES & SERVICE CO., 4207 LAWNVIEW AVE., DALLAS 27, TEXAS. EQUIPMENT WANTED Wanted: metal screen tower, within 200 miles of Tyler, Texas. Write price and description Jack Miller, Rt. 2, Tyler, Texas. Wanted: Simplex S.P. portable pro jectors with 2,000' magazines, or Simplex XLs. G. M. Films, 1504 North Ave., Burlington, Vermont. Wanted: Used theatre booth equipment We dismantle. Leon Jarodsky, Paris, Illinois. 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 & 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 only $1 extra. Cash or check. No CODs. WESLEY TROUT, Publisher, Box 575, Enid, Oklahoma. 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 orchids. 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. ANTI-THEFT SPEAKER-HEATER PROTECTION ANTI-THEFT SPEAKER CABLE PRICE REDUCED! Protect your speakers-heaters for less than 75c per unit! Complete satisfaction reported by chains and exhibitors. Write: Speaker Security Company, 1650 Willow, Hoboken, N.J. THEATRES FOR SALE West Coast theatres for sale. Write for list. Theatre Exchange Company, 260 Kearney Street, San Francisco 8, California. BARGAIN! S0'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. Theatre for sale. Beautiful Morro Bay, Calif., ocean resort town. Family operation. Boxoffice, 9754. Doctor says. "Must Sell," operating theatre 400 seats, air conditioned. Brenkerts, RCA opt. and Mag. sound. CinemaScopes. All equipment A-l condition. Town of 3,000. Write: Rex Theatre, Evansville, Wisconsin. For Sale! Lake Theatre. Brick and steel, stereophonic sound, 36' screen, 380 seats. Three apartments and beauty shop rentals. Otto Sorensen, Powers Lake, N. D. AUTO DRIVE-IN. DE LUXE THEATRE, for sale, outright or in paTt. 1,500-car capacity or more. Almost completed Strategically located in the Cleveland-Akron area. Will take partner or sell my 40year lease. Opportunity to develop additional recreational activities Boxoffice, 9763. One of the best small locations in Wisconsin offered for sale. Indoor and outdoor for $60,000. Have winters free. Boxoffice, 9769. MICHIGAN THEATRE. 1,500 seats, building and equipment in excellent condition. Extra income from stores and offices now rented. Selling for real low price with easy terms. Schafer Realty Co., 2540 So Grand Travers, Flint, Mich. 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 pay cash for one showing profit. Reply, Boxoffice, 9758. Euy or lease! Hard top or drive-in theatre for family operation. Boxoffice, 9764. Theatre wanted to lease in N.Y.C. area Small investment by aggressive showman. Seeks between 500 to 800 seats. Boxoffice, 9766. Wanted to buy or lease. Indoor theatre in Miami, Florida. Reply: Boxoffice, 9767 THEATRES FOR LEASE For lease! Excellent family operation, managing operator. Southwest health town. Good equipment, improvements, metal screen. Only drive-in 70 miles. Does not fit with our circuit type absent management operation. $1,000 advance rent. Interested people only please. Boxoffice, 9762. Lease modem theatre, located in heart of Whiting, Indiana. Only theatre in town. 650 seating capacity, fully equipped. Drawing radius, 25,000 population. Reasonable rent to responsible operator. Write: Teninga & Co., 10835 So. Michigan Ave., Chicago 28, 111. 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. MISCELLANEOUS Eliminate tackiness on rubber matting Order economical No. 52CB floor soap. $11.25 for 5 gallon pail, F.O.B., M & M Chemical Co., Willimantic, Conn. THEATRE SEATING Specialists in rebuilding chairs. Best workmanship, reasonable prices. Have men, will travel. Rebuilt theatre chairs for sale. Neva Burn Products Corp., 262 South st.. n.y:c. 800 Heywood Wakefield theatre chairs. Good condition, sacrifice price. Write: Abe D.arbose, 8 Parker St., Gardner, Mass. Telephone: 6-321115. CHAIRS REBUILT ANYWHERE1 Expert workmanship, personal service, finest matenalp. ARTHUR JUDGE, 2100 E. Newton Ave., Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Wanted: Used International chairs. Any model, any condition. Riegel Theatre Chair Service, 933 N. Howard St., Union City, Ind. Seats repaired reasonable. 25 years experience, expert workmanship. References furnished. Abe Barach, 1500 Chicago Ave., Minneapolis 4, Minn. Phone FE 5-0505. THEATRE TICKETS Prompt Service. Special printed roll tickets, 100,000, $40,75; 10,000, $13.75: 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. Handy Subscription Order Form BOXOFFICE: 825 Van Brunt Blvd., Kansas City 24, Mo. Please enter my subscription to BOXOFFICE, 52 issues per year (13 ol 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 21, 1963 29