The old movie place on 79th Street in Avalon Park has sat mostly vacant since 2003, but the theater still looks like something out of a movie set.
“It’s ornate, it’s got beautiful tilework,” says Eleanor Truex, who lives in Flossmoor and occasionally, when traffic is bad, gets off the expressway and drives past the old Avalon Regal Theater, which was built in the 1920s as an eclectic entertainment venue.
