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Happy Birthday Richard Pryor! Here’s a story in memory of him, my father and Mitzi Shore owner of @TheComedyStore. My father was a projectionist, owned a drive-in movie theater for some years, and for a spell worked at the Chinese Theater in Hollywood when I was a kid.
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I didn’t spend a lot of time with him growing up. But the little time I did, it involved running around the basement of the Chinese Theater, learning how to splice and glue reels together, and picking up garbage at the drive-in during the day...
as people always liked to clean out the inside of their cars before leaving; popcorn containers, whiskey bottles, spent roaches, and dirty diapers. Gear was always being upgraded, fixed, or changed out. Eventually, my dad worked at a chain of theaters where he did just that.
