Washington County Weekend Post

Washington County ■ 262-306-5000 ■ 1-800-498-5655 ■ Fax: 262-338-5271 ■ CVC Audited ■ Retail ■ January 1, 2017 SERVING WEST BEND AND SURROUNDING COMMUNITIES POST POST WASHINGTON COUNTY CIRCULATION AUDIT BY NEW YEAR'S SALE SAVE STOREWIDE 30-65% PLUS SAVE an additional 10-50 % off of all floor models CHECK US OUT ONLINE AT HartfordFurniture.net SHOP EARLY FOR THE BEST SELECTION! 60 DINING SETS, ETC. If you like wood, you'll love our showroom. Friday - 11am-7pm I Saturday - 10am-5pm Sunday - 11am-4pm I Monday - 11am-5pm OPEN NEW YEAR'S EVE 10AM- 5PM OPEN NEW YEAR'S DAY 11AM- 4PM 2770 E SUMNER STREET(Hwy 60) 262-457-3232 7259 Sleepy Hollow Rd. West Bend, WI 53090 (262) 334-1906 W63 N127 Washington Ave. Cedarburg, WI 53012 (262) 377-1906 The Schubert Theater gets new amenities for the new year B efore Christmas, I talk- ed to a happy man. (No, not Santa, although I saw him too.) My happy interviewee is Bill Schubert, owner of Schubert Theaters. I went to see the improve- ments he'd made recently in his Hartford location. Bill has spent his entire working life in theaters. His first high school job at age 16 was as an usher in the Marcus theaters in Menomonee Falls. "How did you like that job," I asked him. "I loved it. That's why I'm still in this business," he answered. Well, how remark- able is that? Then, he was tickled to work as a projec- tionist for seven years, in and out of high school, at the old Starlite Drive-In. "It was even more fun than my first job," Bill said. From there, he went on to manage the Budget Cinema in Greenfield, became a district manager for four Budget theaters and eventually managed ten the- ater complexes in six states. "The Budget theaters that I managed were bought by Super Saver Theaters, so that's how I began managing those," he said. "My wife and I moved to West Bend because it was centrally located in that territory." Another facet of Bill's life with the movies is that he met his wife Nancy at that very first usher job. "We dated for ten years and we've been married for 25," he said. "Our second son was born while I was doing all that commut- ing, and I realized I was miss- ing too much. I spent six entire weeks in Buffalo during that period. So I land- ed a job with Wildwood Theaters, a chain of four the- aters all in Wisconsin. That was about 1998. I still man- age one of them for the owner. Anyway, they had an office in Hartland, and one day as I was driving there, I passed this theater and saw a for-sale sign. My boss at Budget helped me finance purchasing the business. Two years ago, I bought the Luxury 10 in Beloit from the Wildwood chain. The other theater I still manage is in Janesville, so that's not as much commuting." When he purchased the Hartford theater in 2009, it had eight screens. "That was just about the time that the Continued on page 8 In Good Taste with Sheryl Popp Bill Schubert relaxes in one of the new recliners in the Schubert Theater in Hartford. Now, if only he was watching his all time favorite movie, The Godfather II!

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