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Old Posted Dec 20, 2012, 2:00 AM
DouglasUrantia DouglasUrantia is offline
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Join Date: Nov 2012
Location: Paramount, CA
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My show biz career....

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Pasadena Flickers?


I worked almost three years as a doorman at this Academy theater. I started when I had just turned 17 years old. Always lots of fun and excitement in those days. The interior was elegant and luxurious with thick wool carpets.

I got to meet and see many Hollywood stars as we had many Previews of films. Steve McQueen [unshaven], Peter Lore, Roz Russell, Jack Warner [of Warner Bros.], Tommy Sands, Wink Martindale [and his daughters]....and more than I can remember. Fun days for sure.

One manager of fired for stealing money and once the theater was robbed at gunpoint of $14,000 candy money plus the ticket sales of $8,000 [they made the manager open the safe with a gun to his head]. I recall they never caught the two robbers. The janitors, bank guard and cashiers were tied up and placed in the restrooms. The robbery started at midnight and ended around 10 AM the next day. I'm just glad I was off work that day. When I arrived for my evening work shift, the shocked manager was still sweating.

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