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From: era@niwot.scd.ucar.edu (Ed Arnold)
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Subject: Re: Theaters and Wheelchair Users
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Date: 13 Feb 90 03:43:41 GMT
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Index Number: 6698

In article <10069@bunker.UUCP> Ron.Rothenberg@f460.n101.z1.fidonet.org writes:
|Index Number: 6663
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|THEATER LOBBY FIGHTS ADA
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|"Safety" is the issue, says the National Association of Theatre Owners,
|whose members own over 12,000 of the nation's movie houses.
|Association lobbyists are pushing to have the Americans with
|Disabilities Act restrict where theatergoers in wheelchairs can sit.
|When the ADA went to the House Judiciary Committee this fall, it
|stipulated that movie houses integrate wheelchair seating throughout
|the theater.  

With regard to the theater industry ... here's a classic gaff:

Here in Boulder (CO), the Fox Theater (part of the Mann's Theaters chain)
brought the movie "My Left Foot" to town.  In this case, the title
must be referring to what the manager inserted in his mouth ... cuz,
while showing a movie about the disabled, he forgot the minor matter
of his theater having no wheelchair access whatsoever.
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