Save The Holiday Drive IN Theater
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The $80,0000.00 Digital Revolution of the movie theater with its move to Digital Projection is leaving many older theaters in the dust as the sun is quickly setting. Very soon, 35mm movie prints will no longer be available and our local drive In theater will be forced to close. We are talking about The Holiday Drive IN Theater in Mitchell, Indiana, the Hometown of NASA Astronaut Virgil "Gus" Grissom. The Holiday is one of those theaters that does not have enough business to be able to make the year round, $1800.00 per month, digital projector payments to keep the Drive IN Open.
The Holiday Drive IN Theater, as it sits today would cost about $900,000.00 to build from scratch. The theater barely makes enough money to keep the doors open on the small $80,000.00 dollars currently invested with zero money to make payments on a brand new digital projector.
Steve Wilson, the owner of the Holiday has been very lucky so far to be able the keep the doors open as 35mm continues to get more scarce with each passing month. Steve feels 2015, more than likely will be the final year in which he can get by on 35mm prints, with many titles no longer available on film which is already compounding the financial issue.
We have started this Go fund Me page, to bring awareness to the high possibility of losing this theater. To give our many friends and many loyal customers a chance to help save this Historic Landmark of a theater, $22, $55 or $110 or more at a time.
Our goal is to be able to purchase a brand new $85,000.00 projector and to build a very small year round heated and air-conditioned room to place the projector in. Our back up plan is to come up with at least $30,000.00, to purchase an older outdated projector as a last resort, which works, but older technology will have half the life of a new unit.
Please pitch in and help us save this old theater! Just this past year, we had a billion dollar company want to purchase this theater, to tear it down to re-purpose the land! Steve Wilson has told these kinds of people, time after time, The Holiday Drive-IN Theater is Not FOR SALE! We need your financial help to save this Old Theater! With the help of our many Friends & Customers of The Holiday Drive IN Theater, we together can keep it in operation and away from the greed of corporate America!
The Holiday Drive IN Theater, as it sits today would cost about $900,000.00 to build from scratch. The theater barely makes enough money to keep the doors open on the small $80,000.00 dollars currently invested with zero money to make payments on a brand new digital projector.
Steve Wilson, the owner of the Holiday has been very lucky so far to be able the keep the doors open as 35mm continues to get more scarce with each passing month. Steve feels 2015, more than likely will be the final year in which he can get by on 35mm prints, with many titles no longer available on film which is already compounding the financial issue.
We have started this Go fund Me page, to bring awareness to the high possibility of losing this theater. To give our many friends and many loyal customers a chance to help save this Historic Landmark of a theater, $22, $55 or $110 or more at a time.
Our goal is to be able to purchase a brand new $85,000.00 projector and to build a very small year round heated and air-conditioned room to place the projector in. Our back up plan is to come up with at least $30,000.00, to purchase an older outdated projector as a last resort, which works, but older technology will have half the life of a new unit.
Please pitch in and help us save this old theater! Just this past year, we had a billion dollar company want to purchase this theater, to tear it down to re-purpose the land! Steve Wilson has told these kinds of people, time after time, The Holiday Drive-IN Theater is Not FOR SALE! We need your financial help to save this Old Theater! With the help of our many Friends & Customers of The Holiday Drive IN Theater, we together can keep it in operation and away from the greed of corporate America!
Organizador
Steve L Wilson
Organizador
Paoli, IN
