Just visited Holiday Star for the first time today, though I’ve lived in the region for 50 years. (I recently found out some interesing things about Park Forest history, and wanted to see a piece of it up close, for myself.) Pretty nice theater, really nice people.
Sorry to learn when I got home and went online that a con artist, one Kenneth Arron, recently put his fingers on the place. Happily, the law caught up with him within a year. Sounds like he was so reckless that it was always just a matter of time before his house of cards fell.
I wonder who, exactly, is in charge of Holiday Star now that Arron is behind bars?
“Theater Operator Facing Multiple Charges Following Arrest"
(September 16, 2010) View link
“Suburb stunned that theater’s rescuer was a career criminal: Man who helped breathe life into Park Forest relic is revealed to have long record of convictions"
(September 19, 2010) View link
(Note that Arron was arrested the day after the post before mine appeared. Also see CWalczak’s links, above, for further irony.)
I visited the Bryn Mawr only once, in mid-to-late 1987, to see “Gardens of Stone.” http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093073/releaseinfo
Pretty classy flick for a grindhouse.
(Continued) Here’s an in-depth Cincinnati Enquirer article on Arron’s lengthy history of high-stakes scams. The article is from 2004! View link
One victim is quoted as follows: “If he used half his energy doing something legal, he could be on top of the world.”
Though Arron would seem to be a textbook case of “flight risk,” he was released on a $20,000 bail after his Holiday Star-related arrest.
Just visited Holiday Star for the first time today, though I’ve lived in the region for 50 years. (I recently found out some interesing things about Park Forest history, and wanted to see a piece of it up close, for myself.) Pretty nice theater, really nice people.
Sorry to learn when I got home and went online that a con artist, one Kenneth Arron, recently put his fingers on the place. Happily, the law caught up with him within a year. Sounds like he was so reckless that it was always just a matter of time before his house of cards fell.
I wonder who, exactly, is in charge of Holiday Star now that Arron is behind bars?
“Theater Operator Facing Multiple Charges Following Arrest"
(September 16, 2010) View link
“Suburb stunned that theater’s rescuer was a career criminal: Man who helped breathe life into Park Forest relic is revealed to have long record of convictions"
(September 19, 2010) View link
(Note that Arron was arrested the day after the post before mine appeared. Also see CWalczak’s links, above, for further irony.)