Boxoffice (Oct-Dec 1963)

Record Details:

Title:
Boxoffice
Date:
Oct-Dec 1963
Publisher:
New York, Boxoffice
Volume:
Boxoffice (Oct-Dec 1963)
Leaf #:
000383
Language:
English
Collection:
Hollywood Studio System
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
BOXOFFICE was the leading American exhibitor trade paper of the post-World War II era. But the publication had modest beginnings. In 1920, Ben Shlyen founded the paper, orginally titled THE REEL JOURNAL, in an office located in Kansas City's Film Row district. Like other regional exhibitor publications, THE REEL JOURNAL focused its attention on the local -- in this case, KC and the nearby territories that the city's distribution exchanges served. By the end of the 1920s, however, Shlyen had acquired or founded several more small exhibitor papers serving other US markets. In 1932, their titles all changed to BOXOFFICE, though they continued to be published in regional editions for decades to follow. -- Eric Hoyt, 2015
Date Added:
March 21, 2024
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RATES: 20c per word, minimum S2.00, 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. • ClfflRMG HOUSE HELP WANTED Manager, drive-in theatre. Eastern seaboard city. No buying or booking, permanent. Boxoffice, 9771. Young, energetic, experienced theatre manager wanted for Waldo Theatre, Kansas City, Mo. Good pay and working conditions. Contact: Clark Rhoden, 3706 Broadway, Kansas City, LO 1-2828. Immediate opening for experienced managers. (Working managers only, need apply). Must have references, ambition, and be bondable. Send complete resume and photo first letter. Armstrong Circuit, Inc., P.O. Box 337, Bowling Green, Ohio. Experienced drive-in manager! Accomplished in newspaper, herald and gimmick advertising. Interesting proposition, secure year-round employment. Work hard in season, long winter vacation. New England. Send complete resume, replies held confidential. Boxoffice, 9783. Wanted! Manager for small Ohio town, operating one indoor and one outdoor theatre. Please state previous experience, salary desired, etc. Boxoffice, 9784. Working manager for conventional theatre. Year around operation. Salary commensurate with proven ability. Ideal climate in Southwest. Replies confidential. Boxoffice, 9787. SALES REPRESENTATIVES! Outdoor Theatre Advertising Service. Compensation commensurate with ability. Protected territory. For details, contact: Romar Vide Company, Chetek, Wise. POSITIONS WANTED Projectionist! Four years experience, non-union. Steady work. Boxoffice, 9777. Manager, 12 years experience all types situations. Can buy and book. Advertising a specialty. 40 years old. Prefer Kansas City area. Boxoffice, 9782. AGENCY WANTED Distribution Agency! Willing to represent any producer of Motion Picture or Distributing Company for the West Indies, British and Dutch Guianas. Contact: George LeHunte Thomas, Ltd., 34 Charlotte Street, Port-of-Spam, Trinidad, W.I. FILMS WANTED Wanted: 35mm <S 16mm prints, negatives, trailers, posters, pressbooks, etc. on 1934 feature "The Scarlet Letter" starring Colleen Moore. SIGNATURE FILMS, 2120 Cross Bronx Expressway, Bronx, New York. 10473. Any "Tab Hunter" films! 16mm or 35mm, top prices paid. Boxoffice, 9761. 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. BOXOFFICE :: November 25, 1963 GENERAL EQUIPMENT— USED j Century C projectors. Simplex SH 1000 sound heads, Strong 80 amp lamps and rectifiers, lens, Simplex amplifier and speaker, complete booth. 100 amp Ashcraft lamps, water cooled. 115 Motiograpn generator. Make offer. 1220 E. 7th St., Charlotte, N.C. FR 58481. Modern and complete booth equipment in excellent condition, including heavy duty bases, magna arc lamps, super Simplex heads, RCA Sound, 18 inch magazines, 50/50 Hertner generator with rheostats, B&L scope lenses, also 13/30 screen drapes and track, electric ticket machine, coin changer. Guaranteed all in excellent shape. J. J. Jacobson, Stcte Theatre, Davenport, Iowa. For sale: Wagner aluminum letters, 570 size 8" & 4 '. Also, 20'x2' glass with bars. All good. Salem Theatre, P.O. Box 8, Salem, Va., DUpont 9-2521. Complete RCA magnetic, optical soundheads, amplifiers, three speakers, anamorphics, projection heads, lamps, bases, generator, rewind. Boxoffice, 9785. E-7 mechanisms and Ballantyne mechanisms. Ballantyne 200 watt dual amplifier system for drive-in. W. E. sound heads and 5pt bases, RCA soundheads and light weight bases to match. Priced to seli. LOU WALTERS SALES & SERVICE CO., 4207 Lawnview Ave., Dallas, Texas. EQUIPMENT WANTED Top dollar paid tor used booth equipment. Bob Foster, 1123 E. Henderson St., Cleburne, Texas. DRIVE-IN THEATRE EQUIPMENT Drive-In Theatre Tickets! 100,000 1x2" special printed roll tickets, $40.75. Send for samples of our special printed stub rod tickets for drive-ins. Safe, distinctive, private, easy to check. Kansas City Ticket Co., Dept. 10, 109 W. 18th St., (Filmrow), Kansas City 8, Mo. EQUIPMENT REPAIRING All makes, all models projection equipment repaired. LOU WALTERS SALES & SERVICE CO., 4207 LAWNVIEW AVE., DALLAS 27, TEXAS. 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. Biggest patronage stimulation! Personalized reviews, ratings sent to your patrons bi-weekly. Costs pennies. Free samples. Grand Productions, 535 Johnson, Gary, Indiana. RECORDS JON BRENT'S "Plaza Theatre Organ Overtures." Monaural, $4.00, Stereo, $5.00., postpaid. Alpha Records, 5965 West Blvd., Los Angeles, Calif., 90043. PHOTO BLOWUPS PHOTO BLOWUPS in beautiful colors from your photos. Send for price list. Fast service anywhere. STITES PORTRAIT CO., Shelbyville, Indiana. THEATRES FOR SALE West Coast theatres for sale. Write for list. Theatre Exchange Company, 260 Kearney Street, San Francisco 8, California. Sacrifice complete equipment 232-seat theatre. All working condition. $850. Walter Pearce, 3224 Trice, Waco, Texas. PL 64943. California Here I Come! 2 hard tops: ONE; San Diego, Calif., with two apartments, 600 seats, beautiful, $32,500. ONE: Kern County, Calif., 450 seats, excellent, $29,500. Both operating now. Good for family or circuit operation. Will make lerrific deal for both houses on price and down payment. Hurry on this one. Write, Boxoffice, 9776. Theatre for sale in Beautiful Morro Bay, California, ocean resort town, family operation. Boxoffice, 9779. 450-car drive-in theatre in Northeastern Wisconsin. Located on junction of highway to good resort area. Boxoffice, 9780. 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. For sale, lease and equipment in 355seat theatre. Also, equipment in small cafe in building. 2 rentals Only hard top in fast growing town and community of 20,000 in beautiful valley just outside Los Angeles. No smog. Big potential for family operation. Owner retiring. Write: Box office, 9788. For sale, modern 439-car drive-in theatre, located in Western Michigan. Heavy summer, plus spring and fall local trade. Only one mile from city of ten thousand population. Seven months operation. Write, Box 156, Scottville, Michigan. 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. Buy or lease. Circuit negotiating for drive-ins or hard tops in or near metropolitan areas. Reply Boxoffice, 9775. Will invest up to $50,000 cash, plus excellent credit rating in profitable theatre operation. What have you? Boxoffice, 9778. Drive-Ins wanted in New York, Pennsylvania, Connecticut or New Jersey. Reply: Boxoffice, 9786. THEATRES FOR LEASE Now operating beautiful 800-seat, fully equipped, downtown Altoona, Pa. For any kind of operation. Absentee owner, reason for leasing. Option to buy if desired. Contact' I. Reinhart, Plaza Theatre, Canton, Ohio. 453-7744. Want to lease with option to buy, drivein or indoor theatres in South Texas. Whately Theatres, Box 330, Harlingen, Texas. 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. 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. CHAIRS REBUILT ANYWHERE1 Expert workmanship, personal service, finest materials. ARTHUR JUDGE, 2100 E. Newton Ave., Milwaukee, Wisconsin. NEW THEATRE CHAIRS. Used BodiiormInternational. Lone Star Seating, Box 1734, Dallas, Texas. We specialize in rebuilding opera chairs Our 40 years experience is your guarantee. Factory trained men do the job properly. Write for our low prices. We go anywhere. Sewed covers to fit your seats, $1.65 each. Chicago Used Chair Mart, 829 S’. State St., Chicago 5, Illinois. Phone: WEbster 9-4519. 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. 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). □ S3. 00 FOR 1 YEAR □ $5.00 FOR 2 YEARS □ $7.00 FOR 3 YEARS □ Remittance Enclosed □ Send Invoice THEATRE STREET TOWN STATE NAME POSITION 29