3 the kids who partied hearty upstairs in the american west until the fire escape fell down had been slobs , but they had mostly used the hail and the manager 's office for their revels ; the other rooms were relatively untouched , and the projectionist 's little suite - the booth , the office cubicle , the closet-sized toilet-stall-was almost exactly as it had been on the day in 1979 when five ciga-rette-smoking men from nevada sunlite entertainment had come in , dismantled the carbon-filament projectors , and taken them to reno , where they still languished , in a warehouse filled with similar equipment , like fallen idols .