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Members of Local 640 IATSE can supply the website with photos,which will usually appear on this page.This page contains a few historical items that I have recently came across,with one sent in from a brother of a different local.If you would like your pictures to appear here,please send them via e-mail in JPEG format,or store on a CD and give them to me at any union meeting.Please include names of people in photographs so that there is no one person not identified.
-Mark Escorcia

Rally picket at Long Beach,September 2003

Unfair employers who do not offer a contract get picketed.

The Local 640 banner on Jesse & Marianne's hot dog truck.

Three dozen plus members put on a show of strength.

The rally discouraged a lot of patrons,who went to other theatres where the was a UNION projectionist employed.

Taken in 1994,its days numbered...UA Westbury Drive-In triplex.Note the "Coming Soon" sign on the bottom right.

The projection booth of the drive in,using "standard" UA equipment,ORC lamphouses,platters and Century heads.

A view of the screen from the booth.

The UA Westbury 12 today,built on the remnants of the drive in.Lower right is the new sign with a slight homage to the old sign.

The "new" projector and Dolby Digital sound head in the expanded Elwood Cinema 4

A Dolby CP-650 and USLabs(Ultra Stereo)CM-680 monitor in the renovated Elwood Cinema 4.

The officers of Local 640 prepare to start a Membership meeting.

This is what happens when a NON-UNION guy runs things!

And another 2 shows cancelled! And where was this?

Seaford Cinemas! April 2003.By next month,we were back in the booth!

Decals from yesteryear found in a film can.Note the 6 digit phone number.The caption above the IATSE logo reads "This Theatre Employs Union-Operators".

A plate from the early 50's during the heyday of projectionists.

The charter of Local 640 IATSE.

The UA Meadowbrook's booth...nearing its final days.

The Boeing Avica digital media server.Movie is downloaded by satellite.

The Christie Mark VII digital projector at NA Farmingdale.

Brother Lou Sumien recieves his Gold Card,presented by Jesse Magan & Andy Grutman.

Another piece of history found in a film can.

The Local 640 float,in a parade in July 1940, Samuel Gompers memorial dedication.Note the bottom line:"Better Projection Pays".

Dolby CP 65 and SDDS unit for quality sound at the UA Meadowbrook theatre.

An old picket duty photo from the 1960's

A Simplex projector with Peerless lamphouse circa 1940

The Video tech crew at the LI Federation of Labor's party in May 2005

Retired President Jim Carolan,Sr. receives his Gold Card from Business Agent Rob Gottschalk Jr. and President Jesse Magan

Brothers Mark Escorcia and Gary Barbera with representatives of the LI Federation of Labor