Milwaukee Theatre

2754 N.Teutonia Avenue,
Milwaukee, WI 53206

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DavidHurlbutt
DavidHurlbutt on August 26, 2007 at 4:09 pm

In the 1940s and 1950 The Poblocki Sign Company which constructed the marquee for the Milwaukee Theater on Teutonia Avenue was located in a building on Kinnickinnic Avenue which once was a movie theater. Widen and Anderson in their book SILVER SCREENS list this location as having many different names, Airdome, Union Electric, Badger, Rex.

homeboy
homeboy on July 16, 2007 at 11:16 pm

The marquee for the first Milwaukee Theater was contructed by the Milwaukee-based Poblocki Sign Company in 1936. The company, which is still in business today, celebrates its 75th anniversary this year.

kencmcintyre
kencmcintyre on January 29, 2007 at 4:41 pm

Here is an article about asbestos problems during renovation of the Auditorium in 2003. As Jim points out, this is not the original Milwaukee, which has been demolished:
http://tinyurl.com/2k2zdp

JimRankin
JimRankin on July 13, 2005 at 5:12 am

I got my authority for the description of the organ from Larry Widen’s listing of the MILWAUKEE in his 1986 book (out of print) MILWAUKEE MOVIE PALACES. He there lists the organ as a “Wurli-Bart”. I don’t know his source for this characterization, but you might contact him through his web site: www.widenonline.com

steamrocks
steamrocks on July 12, 2005 at 11:49 am

I visited the Milwaukee Theater in the very early 1960’s when, as an overly optomistic youth of 16, I had intentions of purchasing the organ and installing it in either my home or the auditorium of my high school. The organ would ‘start up’ but in no way could it be deemed playable. The console was obviously Barton, but I had no idea that it also had WurliTzer components in it. The specification appeared to be fairly stock Barton (at least from what I knew as a 16 year old). Does anyone know what portions of the instrument were WurliTzer?

JimRankin
JimRankin on April 13, 2004 at 8:11 am

Please let me know if you learn anything more about this theatre. Thank You. Jim Rankin =