Journal of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers (1930-1949)

1948 INFLUENCE OF WEST COAST DESIGNERS 335 candy store and restaurant in conjunction with the theater. We accomplished the dual operation by having the candy department on the foyer floor open directly from the candy store to the foyer. Outside, the doors lead from the candy store to the box office, or from the street to the candy store, and we designed the mezzanine level of the theater to be the second-floor level of the restaurant. Service for candy and drinks operates on either the theater side or the luncheon side and there is direct access from the mezzanine of the theater to the restaurant. Having the appearance of one operation, the flow of traffic is easily attracted from one to the other. The way the doors are arranged there are no serious problems in handling pass-out checks. The only construction problem encountered was the requirement of a fire wall Fig. 5 — Model of precut-principle theater. with fire doors between the two units. This was easily accomplished by handling our construction architecture accordingly. The basement contains the entire kitchen facilities and food on the various levels is handled by dumbwaiters. The entire front of this building does not separate the theater and food departments except for the marquee and although the front portion of the second floor is entirely occupied by the food department, the outside appearance indicates that the theater uses the entire upper area. We believe that the West Coast was one of the first areas to adopt large parking spaces for automobiles. Some areas potentially are on wheels and practically every patron arrives by motorcar. We started building 'large areas behind the theaters for accommodating the patrons and attempted to make the automobile park an integral part of the theater by having the park entrance directly under the