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This AMC Eagle was parked at a grocery store and when its owner came out I asked her if it had been restored, but she said she'd just taken really good care of it. She must park it in a time machine instead of a garage -- it's immaculate!
1964 AMC Convertible at the High-Tech Collision Classic Car Show 201at the Sprinker Recreation Center Spanaway Washington.
Super quick shots of my part in the display at this weekends AMC Expo. I'm calling this series "Versus", you can probably guess why, and the next planned installment will be Darth and Luke.
But first i need to get better shots of them.
1970 Javelin (Jose Gonzales) owns that Mark Donohue ran in the 1970 Trans-Am series with that was rebodied for Roy Woods in 71. Taken at the 2003 SVRA races at Watkins Glen.
1969 AMC AMX racing in Group 5A (1964-1969 FIA Mfg. Championship Cars) at the 2010 Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion.
Corgi Juniors Diecast
1/64 (ish)
Cosmetically restored
Husky Models was re-branded Corgi Juniors in 1970. The name Corgi Juniors was dropped in the mid 1970s and the models were just branded as Corgi.
AMC Entertainment, Inc., doing business as AMC Theatres (American Multi-Cinema), is the second largest movie theater chain in North America with 5,894 screens, second only to Regal Entertainment Group, and one of the United States's three national cinema chains (Regal and Cinemark Theaters being the others). The chain also has locations in the United Kingdom, France, Spain and Hong Kong. AMC is headquartered in Kansas City. AMC Theatres' slogan is "We Make Smiles Happen."
The company was founded in 1920 by the Dubinsky Brothers (Maurice, Edward and Barney) who had been traveling the Midwest performing melodramas and tent shows with actress Jeanne Eagels. They purchased the Regent Theatre on 12th Street between Walnut and Grand in downtown Kansas City, Missouri.
The Dubinskys eventually changed their name to Durwood and the company was called Durwood Theatres.
In 1961, Edward's son, Stanley, took control of Durwood Theatres when his father died. Stanley had attended Harvard University and served as a navigator in the U.S. Air Force during World War II.
He renamed Durwood Theatres to "American Multi-Cinema, Inc.", and began to apply military management and the insights of management science to revolutionize the movie theatre industry. As he later explained to Variety, "We needed to define what our company was doing in the (exhibition) business. My dad wasn't that organized." It was founded on the belief that every "guest" (as AMC calls them) was to be treated first.
In 1963, AMC opened the two-screen Parkway Twin in a shopping center on Kansas City's Ward Parkway. Durwood later claimed that "in 1962 he was standing in the lobby of his 600-seat Roxy in Kansas City mulling over its poor grosses when he realized he could double his box office by adding a second screen and still operate with the same size staff." This insight arises from the fact that the real-time labor demands of a movie theatre are not constant. Rather, they come in bursts at the start and end of the movie. At the start, a large number of employees have to sell tickets, process tickets at an access point, sell food at the concession stand (a theatre's primary profit center), make sure the theatre is not overcrowded, and run the film projector. While the movie plays, a small number of employees are needed for security and access control, while the others are relatively idle, allowing them to restock concession items, clean restrooms, and clean the lobby. At the end of the movie, a number of employees are needed to clean the theatre for the next showing. When the start times for movie showings in several physically connected auditoriums are staggered correctly, one team can continually keep all of them operational with minimal downtime. An additional advantage is that a different movie can be shown in each auditorium, which increases the choices available at a theatre's box office at any given time, and minimizes the possibility that disappointed moviegoers will take their business to a different theatre altogether.
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