Some well-known staff at one-stop leisure shops

Press, 9 November 1984, Page 26

Some well-known staff at one-stop leisure shops

With the opening of the Quills Video Centre and Quills Cup-Price Liquor Centre in Riccarton Road today, some familar faces amongst staff will be joined by not so familiar. The manager of the liquor outlet, Mr Sam Brighouse, and the assistant manager, Mr John Wealleans, have become known to regular customers, but on the video side, the manager, Mr Malcolm Harms, has been working until now at the Colombo Street branch known as Robin Moore’s Video Drive-In Centre. Coining from a career with Radio New Zealand, Malcolm says he is still learning about the software and hardware of the video world, but he says that the industry in New Zealand is still so young that virtually everyone is learning from one another.

The manager of the Colombo Street branch of Quills Drive-In-Video, Mr Robin Moore, has been in tw video business only a

little longer, but he 'is the first to admit when he does not know something. “If a customer asks me something and I don’t know the answer, I say so. Then I do my best to find out,” Robin said.

He first managed the Christchurch Entertainment Bureau, and for 13 years he promoted local and overseas artists. He was responsible for staging the first rock concert at QJS. II Park, by the group Blood, Sweat and Tears.

Before starting an earlier small video business in the inner city, Robin tried to establish a software industry in Christchurch which offered home delivery, but the demand was simply not there for that kind of service.

The present drive-in concept has, however, boomed right from the first, and 100 ks to. grow in popularity with the opening of another facility that makes selection and, lending convenient for buffs. |