Gilman Theater
230 W. Main Street,
Gilman,
WI
54433
230 W. Main Street,
Gilman,
WI
54433
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In the 1945 Film Daily Yearbook, there is a Scenic Theatre listed as the only theater operating in Gilman, listed as “Closed” with no address or seat count. (Also the FDY spells the city wrong, “Gillman”, like the Creature from the Black Lagoon.) The Gilman Theatre is listed in the 1951 Film Daily Yearbook as Gilman’s only operating theater, again with no address or seat count.
The text with this photo claims that the Gilman is both a theater and a church.
Here is part of a July 1999 article from the Milwaukee Journal:
When Ward Engelke left his job as a pastor dealing with troubled teens in Milwaukee and moved to northern Wisconsin to take a factory job, he thought he had put his preaching days behind him.
He also believed he had escaped many of the problems that he had witnessed on Milwaukee’s south side, where he helped bring spiritual guidance to gang members and others.
Engelke was wrong on both counts. He now is the pastor of a fledgling church in this Taylor County village of 412 people that is holding services in a renovated 53-year-old movie theater that he and his wife, Trish, purchased for $15,000. The movie house, opened in 1946, was closed in 1984 when a fire damaged the lobby.
All the lsitings for the Church that is the former Gilman Theatre give an address of 230 W. Main St. All map searches show no W. Main St. They all show E. Main. There is an IGA Supermarket across the street from the theatre and the address is 235 E. Main St. When you map using the 230 E. Main it maps properly. The theatre shows up at 230 E. Main also. Could it be that one side of the street is E. and the other W. Really confusing with this one. Mapping will not map W. Main St.