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Booths & Shacks Massachusetts

Consumers in Massachusetts are often surprised by the sheer number of booths and shacks they encounter in their daily lives. The millions of guardhouses, toll booths, and other small buildings throughout the world form an important part of the security of businesses and consumers alike.
1. Local Companies
2. Booths And Shacks At Work
3. Encountering Of Booths And Shacks in Massachusetts
4. Security Measures
5. Featured Local Company

1. Local Companies

ATS Cases, Inc.
800 451 4242
172 Otis Street
Northborough, MA
VDA Inc.
617-628-1200 x24
63 Inner Belt Rd.
Somerville, MA
Go Graphix
413-525-2264
436 North Main Street
East Longmeadow, MA
Sound Vision
1-800-547-4343
7 Lincoln St.
Wakefield, MA
Boston Tech Group
617-872-9271
95 Winsor Ave.
Watertown, MA
Vector 5
978-348-2997
175 Kimball St.
Fitchburg, MA
VDA, Incorporated
(617) 628-1200
63 Inner Belt Road
Somerville, MA
imageXPress, Inc.
978 239 3701
483 groveland ST
Haverhill, MA
Belair Enterprises Inc
(781) 933-9324
325 New Boston St
Woburn, MA
Premium Fun Foods Division of Premium Popcorn Company
(617) 241-2885
142 Cambridge St
Charlestown, MA


2. Booths And Shacks At Work

The most noticeable place where booths, shacks, and guardhouses are in use is at manufacturing plants and large corporations around Massachusetts. These small buildings allow a company in Massachusetts to control who comes onto their facilities and ensure that those who work and visit their facilities are secure from troublemakers. Guard booths are placed at all points of entry into surface parking, parking towers, and maintenance paths to company facilities.
Surface parking booths are typically mounted in between the entrance and exit to a company’s parking spaces. Companies in Massachusetts with a parking tower or structure typically have several guard booths lined up at the entrance and exits in order to keep traffic moving. Maintenance paths are typically guarded by a small booth with a simple protective arm and workstation for a security guard.

Workers who have to contend with guard booths and shacks on a daily basis learn quickly the security procedure as they enter. Most companies in North America and Europe utilize an ID card system, where employees are able to utilize their employee ID as proof of their employment. Other companies will offer a sign-in option, which keeps a running list of the people who have entered the corporate campus on a daily basis. A small number of companies, reflecting the future of booths and shacks, have electronic devices that can be mounted in a vehicle to allow the free flow of traffic past security guards.

3. Encountering Of Booths And Shacks in Massachusetts

People may think that driving past the gates guarding their workplace on Friday means that they are finished encountering booths and shacks during their weekend. However, this is simply not the case. Malls, shopping centers, and health facilities around Massachusetts have begun to set up security and ticket booths to facilitate a better shopping environment. Security booths, featuring part-time guards and security professionals around Massachusetts, are often dispersed throughout a larger shopping area in order to have a set of eyes on as many customers, as possible. Security guards often review cameras distributed throughout different stores around Massachusetts that are meant to prevent shoplifting.

The more common encounter of an individual with a booth during their free time is the ticket booth at their local Massachusetts mall. Major malls, museums, and city centers often have large parking structures that take in money for businesses and the city involved. Ticket booths, like security booths at corporations, often feature a swinging guard arm and a small workspace for security personnel. These booths also have a list of hourly, daily, and weekly rates for parking, and many now have digital displays of how much a shopper or visitor owes. Whether at work or at play, people around Massachusetts encounter booths and shacks on an almost daily rate.

4. Security Measures

Commercial ticket booths and guard shacks throughout North America and Europe utilize a number of security measures in order to maximize their effectiveness. Potential purchasers of these small buildings need to understand the wide variety of security technologies available to them. Perhaps the most ubiquitous feature of the commercial ticket booth is the swinging guard arm, which prevents vehicles from entering a facility without clearance or a ticket. These arms can be operated by a simple switch inside the booth or can be automatically lifted when a worker or shopper takes a ticket.

However, more elaborate security measures controlled through a security booth are available in Massachusetts for additional costs. At higher security facilities and highly trafficked city centers around Massachusetts, there are signs that say “severe tire damage,” as a person enters or exits a parking structure. This sign is a warning about the sharp metal tracks which vehicles go over as they approach a guardhouse. The smooth edge of the tracks allows passage in the traffic direction desired by the company, while sudden reversals will cause punctures and other damage detrimental to a vehicle. Metal tire tracks keep traffic moving past security and ticket booths around Massachusetts, which is important in high traffic areas.

5. Featured Local Company

VDA, Incorporated

(617) 628-1200
63 Inner Belt Road
Somerville, MA
vdainc.com

VDA services all facets of corporate theater including design and fabrication of unique theme party décor, theatrical lighting, concert-quality audio systems as well as customized and stock meeting sets.

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