Can anyone ID these old cabinets?

On 03/28/2014 09:54 AM, Richard wrote: You forgot a step--taking the film off the distributor's reels (using a rewind machine) and putting them on house reels before showing--and then repeating the process in reverse when the film was left for pickup by the distributor. Distributor's reels were really cheap stamped sheet-metal affairs, while house reels were usually cast aluminum. As a drive-in projectionist nearly 20 years earlier than your stint, life was comparatively quiet between reel changeovers. I can remember to this day, big swaths of "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" and the theme from "Georgie Girl" will never leave my head, I fear. I think things really changed when Xenon-arc lamps supplanted carbon-arc lamps. I still wonder about how much arc-produced carbon fullerene went up the chimney with nobody noticing. When you no longer needed a lamp-tender (You'd strike the arc, back off a bit and then periodically tweak the feed to keep it positioned at the focal point of the lamp's parabolic mirror--and then change carbons every couple of reels), you could use giant reels of film and fight the union who insisted that a projectionist always be present. Some nasty fights with management back then. The gear was built to last forever. The projector heads ran their innards in an oil bath--the optics were high-quality (remember the Cinemascope lenses?). Solid state hadn't yet hit theater audio, so you had a rack of equipment with 866 rectifiers, 811 triodes and other goodies provided the sound amplification. --Chuck