George, Happy BDay. The drive-in is a really great idea.
Larry----- Original Message ----
From: George Cohn gwcohn@gmail.com
To: e-type@jag-lovers.org
Sent: Mon, July 18, 2011 2:53:32 PM
Subject: Re: [E-Type] Birthday
On 7/18/2011 2:11 PM, Ray Sharp wrote:
In reply to a message from George Cohn sent Fri 15 Jul 2011:
Happy birthday George, and many thanks for all you have done
for us over the years!
In my old age I am a member of a local non-profit who is trying to bring the
drive-in movie back to Tucson.
Here is some info on our latest project:
On Saturday night we had our first fundraiser to create a new non-profit
drive-in in Tucson, AZ.
We had about 600 people show up for our presentation, mostly young families with
children.
The media gave us a lot of coverage. These are typical:
http://tinyurl.com/63pe3nf
We raised over $3,000 for our first event and plan to do many more to get the
project underway.
There is a lot of interest in a family-oriented venue, and we had a lot of fun
doing it. We showed “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs” because it was the last
film shown when our last drive-in closed on Oct 3, 2009.
We licensed the film through Swank Motion Pictures. We had a short promotional
video of our project, some classic drive-in snack bar commercials, as well as a
public domain cartoon and the feature presentation.
I set up four sets of drive-in speakers on poles for those in lounge chairs near
the screen, and we broadcast the audio over low-powered FM for those in
vehicles.
We plan to do many more, and the community response is overwhelming!
When I went to the mail this morning, we had more donations pouring in!
I didn’t take the e-type as we used my wife’s Nissan pickup for the projection
booth and I had a lot of stuff to bring like four sets of working drive-in
speakers on poles, amplifiers, FM transmitters, DVD players, DVD projectors,
etc. We had a great time and the community response was overwhelming!
George Cohn
http://www.cactusdriveintheater.com
'70 OTS
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