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Karrie League: Alamo Drafthouse early expansion was driven by fear
“I feel like most of the expansion that we've done, or that we did early on, was entirely based in fear.”
Tim and Karrie League ran Tejon Theater living behind the screen
“We had no employees. We lived in a little room that we had carved out behind the screen.”
Karrie League: Parents mortgaged their home to lend $100K for Alamo
“They mortgaged their house. In order to lend us a 100,000 dollars.”
Karrie League: Alamo name was chosen for phone book ranking and building shape
“We want to be first in the phone book, so it has to start with A. And the top of our original building had that kind of Alamo-esque shape to it.”
Alamo Drafthouse founders refused to see cinema advertising revenue estimates
“There were several times when we had the opportunity to find out how much of an income stream that it would be, and we both said, no, we don't want to know. We don't want to know. We don't want to have any regrets at all or any inkling of temptation, so don't …”
Karrie League: Voicemail clip is Alamo Drafthouse's most popular PSA
“Yeah, we always do a PSA to explain our policy to people before the movie, and that's by far our most popular PSA of all time.”