Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 Fluke 8/7/84; site fluke.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!ssc-vax!fluke!moriarty From: moriarty@fluke.UUCP (Jeff Meyer) Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: Re: Movie Curtains Message-ID: <1386@vax2.fluke.UUCP> Date: Mon, 24-Sep-84 11:23:47 EDT Article-I.D.: vax2.1386 Posted: Mon Sep 24 11:23:47 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 4-Oct-84 03:29:32 EDT References: <1309@ucla-cs.ARPA> Organization: John Fluke Mfg. Co., Everett, WA Lines: 18 >Does anybody know why they close the curtains in a movie theatre after >showing the "coming soons" and the main feature? They must stay closed for, >oh, say, 3 second. > > > Rick Gillespie This is a tradition, I believe, which is slowly dying out... "Let's show this prehistoric bitch how we do things downtown!" Moriarty, aka Jeff Meyer John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc. UUCP: {cornell,decvax,ihnp4,sdcsvax,tektronix,utcsrgv}!uw-beaver \ {allegra,gatech!sb1,hplabs!lbl-csam,decwrl!sun,ssc-vax} -- !fluke!moriarty ARPA: fluke!moriarty@uw-beaver.ARPA