Avon Lake Businessman Wants to Bring Train Museum to Old Theater
‘Destination: Avon Beach Park,' could be major attraction on city's west side.
The city of Avon Lake could be the home of a train museum and a community workshop if plans to renovate the old Avon Lake Theater on the city's west end move forward. Tom Patton, who owns Artstown Shopping Center, including the closed Avon Lake Theater, is taking steps toward making the now-gutted 11,000-sq.-ft. theater a train museum, features items from the Lake Shore Electric Railway. “I want to turn that into a rail museum; a Lake Shore Electric museum,” Patton said. Patton has a pretty good start. He’s owned a Lake Shore Electric (LSE) rail car for years and recently moved it into the theater. Patton rolled the massive No. 38 car through a side door and into the building. It is part of collection that includes hundreds of old LSE …
Stan Stepak
4:13 pm on Wednesday, April 6, 2011
What a wonderful idea for our city. People will come from all over to see this. Something special not just for Avon Lake but Northeast Ohio too! more ›