Comments from kencmcintyre

Here is a 1980 aerial photo. It looks like they are using the space for retail now.
http://tinyurl.com/y8wg7gz

It appears to be a dollar store now.

Here is an undated photo from the Irvin Glazer collection:
http://tinyurl.com/yakgkkb

That’s because I live on the west coast now. On the east coast going away from the beach is west, so northwest
would be correct..

I would say east and north.

I think the necktie photo mentioned on 8/17 is on the Clune’s Auditorium page.

Here is a contemporary view of the church:
http://tinyurl.com/yhfmpb7

The theater building was still standing in 1980, according to this aerial photo. If you look at the building in the center that has the site’s name overlaying it, the theater would be the building directly south.
http://tinyurl.com/yjsamms

Here is a view of the church:
http://tinyurl.com/yj6cwl7

Here is a 1980 aerial view:
http://tinyurl.com/yk4fpt4

Here is part of a July 1999 article from the Milwaukee Journal:

When Ward Engelke left his job as a pastor dealing with troubled teens in Milwaukee and moved to northern Wisconsin to take a factory job, he thought he had put his preaching days behind him.

He also believed he had escaped many of the problems that he had witnessed on Milwaukee’s south side, where he helped bring spiritual guidance to gang members and others.

Engelke was wrong on both counts. He now is the pastor of a fledgling church in this Taylor County village of 412 people that is holding services in a renovated 53-year-old movie theater that he and his wife, Trish, purchased for $15,000. The movie house, opened in 1946, was closed in 1984 when a fire damaged the lobby.

Boxoffice magazine reported in March 1958 that the Park would close in a few weeks, and then would be turned into a bank.