Eighties Time Warp....Sunday, 14 December, 1986...I get my first PAID job at a movie theater....the old Hillsboro Theater, that is. Ill never forget this one...It was 28 years ago today that Clint Eastwood, or, to be more precise, a film starring Clint Eastwood, HEARTBREAK RIDGE (With all due respect, Sir, youre beginning to bore the hell out of me.) which opened two days earlier. Originally, I wanted to see STAR TREK IV: THE VOYAGE HOME again, but Jeffrey Apple and his younger brother, Brian, wanted to see this one. And, so, we saw, and liked. But, it was immediately after that afternoon screening that I ran into the Manager, Gus Morales, who asked me if I were serious about wanting a job there, as I filled out an application a couple of months earlier. I said yes, and after returning there a few hours later, and taking a test...I was hired! Two nights later, I started, behind the concession stand. Basically, it was a job I was familiar with, my first stint as an usher/concession worker, was in a volunteer capacity at the Tampa Theater, at the age of fourteen. Anyway, several of my new co-workers, Clay Rosenberg included, were surprised at seeing me behind the concession stand (I was also a local freelance critic in my spare time from my regular job), But, I said that I was just a regular guy...So, thank you Clay, Gus, Dennis, Tanya, Joe, Merle (the box office woman, who remembered me from when I was a little boy going to the theater on a regular basis since I was ten), and many others, for a wonderful experience. When I was a ten-year-old, and throughout my teen years, there were four theaters where I wanted to work. Hillsboro (Cineplex Odeon), Horizon Park Four (AMC), Austin Cinemas (General Cinemas Corp) and Tampa Bay Cinemas (ditto). Six months after being hired by Hillsboro, I got my second gig, Horizon Park, which I worked simultaneously with my Hillsboro job (They were both less than a mile from each other) during the summer of 87, when the latter closed for a complete makeover which lasted until March, 88, when it reopened as an eight-plex. DAMN, I miss the 80s!
Posted on: Sun, 14 Dec 2014 21:54:55 +0000
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