Walter Reuther Central Auditorium
Sheridan Road at 58th Street,
Kenosha,
WI
53140
Sheridan Road at 58th Street,
Kenosha,
WI
53140
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(October 15, 1955 – Racine Journal Times)
It was learned recently that a group of citizens in Kenosha have raised a fund to install an organ in the high school auditorium where the Kenosha symphony plays. The organ will be dedicated on Dec. 8 with Victor Thiex, who played here last year, as guest organist.
Your exception is noted, thanks, but it’s Kenosha’s foremost performing-arts center and concert venue (though it’ll have some competition soon) and it fits every definition of a classic theatre even though it’s attached to an operating high school.
According to this website, it’s still a high school. http://reuther.kusd.edu/index.html
I attended a very large high school in Chicago that had a beautiful auditorium with a balcony and projection booth, and yes, movies were shown on occasion. I don’t think that qualifies it to be on CT any more than this one should be. The LaSalle Bank Cinema in Chicago showed movies every Saturday night in its bank auditorium. A cinema treasure? I think not.
The architect was John Chubb. There were indeed first-run motion pictures offered at one time, and to the present there are travelogue films offered on the first Friday of each month from September through April.
Sounds just like a high school auditorium rather than a theater. Was/is there a projection booth, for example?
Louis, did this facility at one time or does it now show motion piuctures?