The end of a great KC company...

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China firm buys AMC to form world's largest cinema chain

http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/21/busine...html?hpt=hp_t3


AMC Theaters was one of the great KC based companies for decades. Founded by Stan Durwood who built the company from scratch and treated his employees lke family. My Dad worked for AMC for 34 years. He started at 15 taking tickets and sweeping floors and when he left the company 34 years later he was a Senior Exec. VP in charge of theater construction world wide. AMC paid for him go get both his bachelor's and master's degree.

Durwood was one of the original pioneers for the idea of the now P&L district. He loved KC and wanted to build up downtown. When companies were moving out of downtown he stayed put. When he passed away AMC took on a more typical corporate atomosphere but now it seems it has gone the way of the dragon.

I grew up with AMC. I remember when the Empire and Midland theaters showed movies back in the day. I know they will still be around in some form or another but it's just a little disheartening to see one of the KC companies like AMC now owned by foreign ownership