{"id":110,"date":"2006-11-29T08:59:11","date_gmt":"2006-11-29T13:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=110"},"modified":"2014-09-06T15:01:34","modified_gmt":"2014-09-06T21:01:34","slug":"happy-birthday-avon-theatre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=110","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday Avon Theatre!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><strong>Skip Huston<\/strong> announced yesterday that the beloved <strong>Avon Theatre, 426 N. Water St., Decatur, IL<\/strong>, has turned 90 years old. &#8220;Please take a moment in your busy day today to contemplate that proud old structure that has meant so much to so many of us, and remember that nothing of lasting quality can continue to exist without constant levels of sacrifice,&#8221; said the Head Honcho in a message sent out to the Avon mailing list.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Entrepreneur\u00a0<strong>Joseph Allman<\/strong>\u00a0opened the Avon&#8217;s doors for the first time on November 28, 1916, with\u00a0<strong>THE FALL OF A NATION<\/strong>\u00a0as the main attraction. After closing in 1986, the Avon mostly sat dormant until Huston, his family, and loyal volunteers brought the movie house back to first-run\u00a0life in April 1999 with <strong>ELIZABETH<\/strong> and <strong>A SIMPLE PLAN<\/strong>. <a title=\"Avon Theatre history @ TheAvon.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theavon.com\/history.html\" target=\"_blank\">Essays on the Avon Web site<\/a> by <strong>Troy Taylor<\/strong> describe the theatre&#8217;s decor and its purported ghostly inhabitants.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Huston recently added the Avon Twins, a second and third screen, in the\u00a0former ballroom space\u00a0adjacent to the original Avon auditorium. <strong>BABEL<\/strong>, <strong>STRANGER THAN FICTION<\/strong>, <strong>DECK THE HALLS<\/strong>, and <strong>RUNNING WITH SCISSORS <\/strong>occupy the theatres on this anniversary; one can only imagine what movies will play the Avon in the 90 years to come!<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&#8211; Jason Pankoke<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Avon Theatre in Decatur, IL, turned 90 years old yesterday, November 28, 2006. Hurrah to Skip Huston and the Avon team!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","category-theatres-venues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}