Yet it is clear that the theater is their love. It is real tough to even talk about the movies closing down. This is gut wrenching. We have the order waiting for them when we see them walk in. Most of the regulars are either people who live in the neighborhood or those who grew up there, Cepanica said.
People drive back to experience a part of their youth.
What they got was something that is a much-diminished part of the Milwaukee theater experience. It was designed to make people feel they were outside watching a movie. It was also designed to be a full-time theater. While Rudolph Valentino may have only been up on the screen, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis did their act from the stage. The Avalon was opened in 1929 by impresario John H. Silliman.