The first Maui Theater days
My parents Robert "Bob" Hall and Eleanor "Red" Hall built the first modern theater on Maui, called Maui Theater. There were a number of their friends that invested with them to get it built. Jimmy Ouye of Service contractor, an investor and the contractor built it. Mr and Mrs Dr. Behnke, Russel Taft and others were involved as shareholders. It's pretty fuzzy since I was a senior at Maui High then. I think there were others from Maui and off islands that were also shareholders. Originally it was to be a Jerry Lewis Cinema. Jerry Lewis started a company to build theaters that used a film cartridge technology, similar to a giant 8 track cassette. The company fell through and so my dad took it from there, using the technology most theaters used. We had to take rolls of 20 minute film and splice them into 60 minute rolls for the projector to play. There were two projectors and when splicing ng, we had to not only get the direction and rolls right and not turn over, o...