![]() Where people are booking the cheapest airline tickets in from outside Decatur alongside their tickets for It's a matter of great celebration in the entertainment circles, and hopefully we can push to the point Innovative thinking and a lot of hard work, the Avon is once again open and thriving in downtown Decatur. Watching out for the place, but who knows? Regardless, thanks to public interest, creative planning, Many times and yet somehow, destruction was avoided time and time again. Believe me when I tell you that the end came calling for the Avon That sets the Avon apart from most of the other "lost" theaters - the Avon is a very haunted place.īut the theater still remains today. Such an end would have been tragic on many counts, but there is one thing For several years, it was said that the Avon would soon join most of the other old theaters inĭecatur and would be destroyed. Spots and years of success, the theater was closed down and abandoned and most feared that it would be After a bright beginning, a number of rough Number of near disasters, the same can be said for the Avon. Over the years, the American film industry has defied the odds and has endured. It could never succeed they thought,īelieving that moving pictures were simply a passing fad and would never last. The parade of films to follow, but this theater was a folly to many. There would be some live entertainment and music later on, with hosts appearing for ![]() Theater, on the scale of the Empress or the Lincoln, but yet the Avon had been constructed for showing It was a unique place in that it was a large, grand The Avon Theater officially opened in November 1916. ![]()
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