The first bar Ted ever built.  Warner Bros provided prints from "Casablanca"

Taping ​Interview with  ZuZu in ​​Ted's Office

Long Lines at Hollywood Blvd 

Friendly (but endangered) Indiana Bat

A Dog Named Bear

Granddaughters Jade           & New Baby Zoe

Thursday February 8th, 2001

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Ted in Indianapolis Office

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Basic Skill Set

  • Serial Entrepreneur

  • CEO

  • Imagineer

  • Builder of Places, Spaces & Things

  • ​Getter of Things Done 

  • ​Overcomer of Obstacles

  • Paver of Yellow Brick Roads

  • Sweeps Up Popcorn

  • Stuff Like That

​​​Ted & Munchkins After Grauman's Oz Screnings

The Indianapolis Star

Two Feet

Contact at Ted.Bulthaup@gmail.com

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​Ted's Hollywood Palms Office

Quentin Tarrantino 

Mancow 

Ted and a giant rabbit named Harvey

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 Paver of Yellow Brick Roads

Ted & Richard Dreyfuss

​​​​​Great Grandmother "Mom" & Ted

​​Ted's Hollywood Palms Office

Ted & Margaret

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Hollywood Bar & Filmworks Indianapolis 

   Ted

Karl & Mickey

Granddaughter Jade 

Video Message from Michael Madsen 

The Hollywood Story


Ted Bulthaup established his first business, Caribou Productions, in Chicago while still attending DePaul University.   Caribou promoted or produced various live concert artists at various venues throughout the central United States with special emphasis on college venues. Worked with such artists as Cheap Trick, Atlanta Rhythm Section, Doobie Brothers, Genesis, Supertramp, Bruce Springsteen, Heart, Jackson Brown, Beach Boys, Yes, The Eagles, Linda Ronstadt, Tina Turner, Prince, Chicago, Steve Martin, Cheech & Chong, Charlie Daniels, Rare Earth, Steppenwolf, Harry Chapin, The Kinks, America, Seals & Crofts, Fleetwood Mac, Alice Cooper, Rolling Stones, Kool & the Gang, Eric Clapton, Neil Diamond, Cindy Lauper, Muddy Waters, Marshal Tucker, etc.   It all started when Bulthaup, as President of his Senior Class, managed to hire the band ‘Styx’ to perform at his high school the same month their song “Lady” hit “Number 1” on the national charts.  Later, the talent buyer for Alpine Valley Music Theater saw something in him and became an early mentor,  They shared an office in the penthouse of what was then the Playboy Building on North Michigan Avenue.

Bulthaup has always been interested in history and consulted on various historic renovations of pre-depression era movie palaces, restoring and converting them into live performance venues; later testifying before the U.S. House Ways & Means Committee on tax incentives as a means of capital formation for historic preservation of architectural landmarks.

Bulthaup interrupted the normal course of business for several years, moving home base from Chicago to Indianapolis so he could take care of aging grandparents.  As a child, those grandparents had often taken him downtown to the two remaining 1920’s palaces which always had made quite the impression. 

Aside from promoting occasional concerts here and there, Bulthaup continued to be called by industry friends to consult in a wide variety of circumstances.  Examples include when the Pink Floyd and the Emerson, Lake & Palmer mega-shows were touring and each needed a last-minute marketing boost.   Worked the first several dates on Peter, Paul & Mary reunion tour.   Bulthaup was flown in to try and convince Lional Richie to finish the Commodores tour before he left the band mid-tour (no luck).  When a drunken Teddy Pendergrass wrapped himself around a tree and became paralyzed, Bulthaup made settlements and closed out all the cancelled dates.  Maurice White of Earth, Wind & Fire was cheating his bandmates, and  the national promoter had wrongfully diverted several million dollars to finance Rolling Stones and Prince dates . 

 Bulthaup also continued his earlier efforts with restoring old movie palaces, helping to reopen the historic Riverside Theater in Milwaukee, the Circle Theater and Madame Walker Theater in Indianapolis, and the Louisville Palace Theater.  The concepts for building movie palaces partly inspired Ted’s, "dinner and a movie" concept.   

That idea became the first cinema in the nation to offer full to-your-seat food and beverage service consisting of a complete selection of libations including beer, wine, cocktails and alcohol infused milkshakes, as well as a wide range of appetizers, salads, sandwiches, pizza, desserts, traditional candies - and popcorn with real butter from real cows, not that artificially flavored and yellow-colored soybean syrup. 

While still keeping an eye out on the grandparents, Bulthaup designed and converted a 140-year old warehouse into “Hollywood Bar & Filmworks” in the heart of downtown Indianapolis, creating an entirely unique segment in the cinema industry.

Opening in October 1999, Filmworks was the first new movie theater to open in downtown Indianapolis for over 60 years, and the first to operate downtown at all in over two decades.  This was at a time when there were no downtown residential buildings and Filmworks was the only downtown restaurant operation open seven days a week and the only business of any kind to be open on Sundays.  Initially suburbanites did not care to travel at night all the way downtown to watch the same movies already playing in their neighborhood cinemas – even if it was a “radically different” experience. 

The studios weren’t especially happy about his idea either, would only provide sub–run films (shortly before video release, called “dollar houses”).   Bulthaup has to charge his American Express Card for the first payroll, (don’t build a theater without one).

Bulthaup has always been a very aggressive competitor and local media soon embraced what he had created.  Within a few months of Filmworks’ opening, the national business magazine “Entrepreneur” published a feature article on Bulthaup. Then an MSNBC story focused on Filmworks not only as a unique theater, but what great value it delivered compared to New York City cinemas.  Bulthaup created a frequent movie-goer program with “The Hollywood Card” (don’t go to the movies without one).

Bulthaup also started to challenge the way films were distributed in this country, causing some fundamental industry changes including the status of intermediate run and first-run move-over theaters, eliminating the release barrier for theaters wanting to own a liquor license.

Among other industry changing efforts, Bulthaup brought a winning anti-trust suit against MGM who paid him a lot of money.   Bulthaup was contacted and became a resource for the US Department of Justice on industry anti-trust issues and the 1949 Paramount Consent Decrees.  (Ted remotely testified bi-annually before the legal committee on antitrust issues, most effectively on the merger of Illinois based Show Place Cinemas and AMC just prior to opening his first Chicagoland location.  AMC was later ordered to divest several Chicago area theaters, which they then sold to Regal).   Twentieth Century Fox was the last convert and Bulthaup only achieved that by going directly to Murdock.

Hollywood was soon recognized as the nation’s leading high-amenity theater and quickly became a leading regional destination.  Over the years the theater received considerable recognition for excellence; consistently winning state, local & national entertainment and restaurant “Best of” awards and being number one in various local reader’s polls, including Downtown Indy’s Best New Addition, Indy’s Best Movie Theater, Indy’s Best Kept Secret, and as having Indy’s Best Service, Best Movie Popcorn and 2nd Best Pizza. The Restaurant & Hospitality Association of Indiana awarded Hollywood with a “Good Neighbor Award” and Hollywood was selected as having the State's “Best Menu”.  

The National Association of Theater Owners and the Hollywood Reporter named the theater as Best in Community Service and also Marketing in the country.  Indianapolis Monthly called the theater one of Indy’s “Crown Jewels” also naming it as the third best place to take out-of-towners (after the 500 Mile Race and the nation’s largest Children’s Museum).  Bulthaup received both CEO Magazine’s “Service Excellence Award” and Mass Mutual’s/U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s “Blue Chip Enterprise Award for Entrepreneurship”

The theater also became the host site for many local and national events.  Among the most notable was when ESPN made Filmworks their headquarters during the “Final Four”, broadcasting live from the lobby with all the games shown on the big screen.  

LA Sports talk radio broadcasted “Hollywood to Hollywood” live from the theater when the Pacers were in the NBA playoffs against the Lakers.    Filmworks was the only local recommendation in a USA Today article for a great place to visit during those playoffs.

 HBO produced a movie about the fight between Jay Leno and Hoosier native David Letterman when Carson left the Tonight Show.  The night before it was broadcast, “The Late Shift” simultaneously premiered in Los Angeles at Grauman’s Chinese Theater and Indianapolis' Filmworks with nationwide media coverage.   Letterman and his Mom hosted the Filmworks screenings.

 On the down side, during this period Bulthaup’s house burned down early Thanksgiving morning, almost taking the life of several of the children who Ted pulled out of the flaming house.  Trapped by the flames, he bounced one child off the refrigerator through the burning kitchen into a clear area near the front door.  Running back upstairs knowing he was trapped, he grabbed the last kid, kicked out a second-floor window and swung the last child into a bush before jumping himself.   

Ted asked a friend who was the human-interest reporter on the local CBS affiliate to tour the burnt-out shell thinking house fires were seldom covered by media.  That coverage won a local Emmy. Bulthaup filmed a PSA to run before the Saturday afternoon kids movies The National Association of Theater Owners (NATO) recognized Hollywood’s Kids Fire Safety Program for a special “Community Service Award”.

Disney Imagineers approached Bulthaup about building a theater like Filmworks on property in Orlando, (Bulthaup turned them down).  Warner Bros had also offered Bulthaup a job as National Director of Special Projects (Marketing) if he would sell the Indy location and move to LA.   Regal, then largest cinema chain in the world, came to a preliminary partnership deal with Bulthaup, but Ted soon backed out.  While the Chairman was absolutely great, the executive team just didn’t get it.

Downtown Indianapolis surged and soon achieved what Bulthaup labelled a “critical mass”.  Then the City of Indianapolis got involved and created a huge downtown mess starting with years of construction of the Circle Centre Mall (closing many streets to traffic); followed by the negative affect of a new professional basketball arena being developed in the heart of downtown’s new activity base.  The City had taken the proceeds from a special restaurant tax to subsidize the new home for the Pacers. 

Just as Bulthaup predicted, the subsequent hyper-inflation of neighborhood parking rates during special events became a severe challenge to all of downtown’s new restaurant and entertainment operations.  Parking rates jumped 735% on over 100 event nights per year which created a devastating situation for the very restaurants that were footing the cost of the subsidy, severely hurting the number of annual downtown visits by Indianapolis’ suburban population who had grown to love their resurgent downtown.            

Bulthaup founded the Downtown Indianapolis Restaurant & Hospitality Association and served as its President over the next six years.  After Hollywood had enjoyed years of success, Bulthaup led the charge against the insiders and powers that be - despite the old maxim that you can't fight city hall.   

Of the businesses that signed a petition asking the Mayor to remedy the problem, two thirds were soon driven out of business citing the new parking dynamic as the number one issue.  This wreckage was all due to local governments reckless and uncaring actions on the parking issue.  Nevertheless, Bart Peterson became a very popular Mayor, later doubled the already harmful restaurant sales tax despite his pledge not to, and built a new sports stadium for the Colts, so was considered a “shoe-in” for a third term in the impending election.  

Bulthaup began quietly looking for an exit strategy and on March 2nd 2003, Bulthaup reopened a long vacated General Cinema multiplex in Woodridge, Illinois  as “Hollywood Blvd Cinema” (Sweet Home Chicago).

Back in Indianapolis, the City Council passed a resolution congratulating Hollywood Bar & Filmworks on the 15th anniversary of their opening, saying the theater was one of the city’s greatest assets and even called Bulthaup one of the “iron men” and “visionaries” of downtown’s resurgence; not realizing the trucks were being loaded that very moment, moving the assets for later use in one of Hollywood Blvd Cinema’s envisioned expansions.  Hasta la vista baby.

As a parting shot, Bulthaup focused his creative talents on certain politicians.  Broadcast media had already taped their final interviews but held their stories until two days later.  Bulthaup had taken out two full page ads in The Indianapolis Star, (equivalent of the Chicago Tribune - see Section “Shame on Indianapolis”).  There was saturation coverage, and the story went viral before viral was ever a thing.

Ted proved the local NBA team was just the opposite of the economic powerhouse the City claimed it was, and that professional sports teams are unworthy of large public investments based on any rational ROI.  Bulthaup later saved local taxpayers around $60 million dollars when the administration had to back off increasing the Pacer’s subsidy until after the next election cycle.

Bulthaup went to the extra effort to excuse the Mayor and his cronies from future public service.  Most political yard signs contain words to the affect, “Vote for ’Name”.   When Bulthaup went back to Indianapolis on the next election day, he was pleased to see all the yard signs reading, “Bart Lies” before he crashed what was supposed to be the Mayor’s victory party, (that didn’t go over so well with the losers).

Even so, in the last year of operation, Hollywood Bar & Filmworks was recognized by the Indianapolis Business Journal as the 8th fastest growing company in Indiana and at the luncheon Bart had handed Bulthaup the award for being in the top ten.  Regardless, Teds' Indianapolis business was a heavy loss.  All local loans and debts of any kind were paid in full, secured and unsecured creditors alike.   Hollywood was a very family-oriented business and tragically one of his young employees committed suicide due to losing her family due to the closure. 

Fifteen years later, an Indianapolis Star article listed the top ten things that are missed in Indianapolis the likes of which will never be seen again. Hollywood was high on that list.

Meanwhile, Hollywood Blvd also opened under some trying circumstances.  After construction was three/fourths complete, building inspectors for the first time demanded that the entire facility be brought up to code, not just the new construction despite what the code reads.  This necessitated a three-month delay, postponing the Grand Opening which in turn caused the heavy Christmas movie going season to be missed. The rescheduled Grand Opening coincided with the declaration of war on Iraq.  The nation’s attention, but more importantly the media’s attention, was entirely focused on small home screens and not Blvd’s big screen opening   With the additional demanded upgrades and due to these circumstances, there was an immediate cash shortfall of about one million dollars, (the American Express card, don’t build a theater without one).

Nevertheless, Hollywood Blvd was named by Chicago Magazine as “Best Cinema” in its first year of operation, beating out the new $30,000,000 AMC/Imax in downtown Chicago.  Hollywood Blvd was the only theater to receive an “A+” rating by the Chicago Sun Times and Restaurant Business Magazine also named Blvd as one of the nation’s top ten new concepts. 

The operation received recognition as the nation’s best marketed theater several times by the Hollywood Reporter with National Association of Theater Owners, and also received Entrepreneurial Excellence Awards from Chicago’s Business Ledger Magazine.  The new operation had positive cash flow after several months   First year sales of $2,500,000 increased an average of $2,000,000 per year each of the next four years.   

A venture capital company loan of $200,000 plus interest at 14% was paid in full and all the investors recouped their money after just two years. 

By most statistics, Blvd outperformed the industry in general and neighboring cinemas in particular.  There were five major expansions in seven years, the last completed in December 2010 which brought the auditorium count from the original four to ten, the lobby had tripled in size including a large glass atrium, the box office was expanded to twice its original space, the size of the kitchen and washroom capacity increased.  A private party room, a casual sit-down Chinese restaurant (named after the first Chinese restaurant in Hollywood, the Formosa Café) and even a Hollywood museum was added to rave reviews and terrific repeat business. The museum had an extensive collection of historic Hollywood items, some owned and others on loan.  A full-size Blues Mobile with statues of the Blues Brothers was added over the new entrance, (Sweet Home Chicago).  Roof top searchlights required enabling legislation and now they beam across the night sky 365 days a year.  Bulthaup shepherded those enabling ordinances through both Naperville and Woodridge and they are the only municipalities in Illinois to allow such use.

In the meantime, Bulthaup converted another rundown dump of a theater and in September 2009, opening the seven screen "Hollywood Palms Cinema" in Naperville, Illinois.  Two construction companies estimated the project would take about 18 months and $15,000,000 to renovate.  Bulthaup hired an independent construction manager, and he was the co-construction manager, and opened Palms in less than eight months at a cost of $8,000,000 which included all the kitchen and projection equipment.  The front of the building was torn off and replaced with a 6,000 square foot glass atrium lobby three stories tall.  A seventy-foot wide, two-story tall cascading waterfall and $58,000 worth of hand-picked Palm trees were shipped up from Miami as the final touch.

One of the hallmarks of Bulthaup’s operations are when show business friends or connections were asked to stop by for a weekend to meet audiences and sign autographs. People like Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson, Rita Moreno, Burt Reynolds Tony Curtis, Teri Garr, Richard Dreyfus, William Shatner, David Carradine, Shirley Jones, Leslie Nielsen, Karen Allen, Peter Falk, Debbie Reynolds, Mickey Rooney, Paris Hilton, Ernest Borgnine, Channing Tatum, Michael Madsen, Martin Landau, Penny Marshall, Malcolm McDowell, Verne Troyer, Tippi Hedren, Peter Fonda, Elliot Gould, Robert Englund, and many, many others came to town to host screenings of their films.

Several “Harry Potter” actors came to the theaters for the openings of their films, including the Phelps (Weasley) Twins, and for the final installment of the Potter movies, Tom Felton, who played ‘Draco Malfoy’ as the guest host.  Paramount had Johnny Knoxville come in for the opening weekend of the last “Jack Ass” movie.  Jennifer Hudson was there for the opening of “Dreamgirls”.  David Arquette hosted exclusive screenings of the first film he produced, wrote, directed and starred in with several other cast member including Courtney Cox.  Eight actors from the “Twilight” films including Ashley Green & Kellan Lutz hosted opening weekends of that series; with Peter Facinelli hosting the opening weekend of the last installment of Twilight.   Virginia Madsen was in for the opening weekend of the exclusive Chicagoland run of “The Miracle of Belle Island” (in which she co-starred with Morgan Freeman). The week before Christmas, Hollywood hosted Bailee Madison & Josh Rush for the Chicagoland Premier of “Parental Guidance”, which later opened on Christmas Day and in which they co-stared with Billy Crystal & Bette Midler.

The two Hollywood cinemas also played host for cast reunions such as Jesus Christ Superstar, Hannah Montana, West Side Story, Rocky Horror, The Poseidon Adventure, High School Musical, Back to the Future, Oliver, Star Wars, Willie Wonka, A League of Their Own & others.   The Biography Channel taped the festivities for the Animal House Reunion.  This was the first Biography centered on a movie, they had so much footage it also became their first two-hour show and it was the most watched of aby that year.

Roger Ebert had ‘Tweeted” that Hollywood Blvd and Hollywood Palms were his favorite theaters – first review he has ever done on a movie theater, “Two Thumbs Up”.   The theaters earned two more marketing awards from the National Association of Theater Owners and nine “Golden Trumpet’ awards for publicity from the Chicago Publicity Club.

 At their pre-pandemic peak, Blvd and Palms cinemas each enjoyed the nation's highest seating occupancy rate, the highest attendance per seat and per screening, and the highest sales per patron of any theater in the country, with annual attendance at each location topping the number of NFL fans for Bears games in Soldier Field.

One of the highlights was when Bulthaup arranged for his little friends, “The Munchkins” to receive a Star on the sidewalk of the other Hollywood Blvd, (the street in LA).  At that time, Hollywood Blvd had the highest attended screenings of “The Wizard of Oz” in the world and brought in the remaining seven Munchkin actors to host those annual screenings.  

Bulthaup’s first nomination of the Munchkins for the Star honor was rejected (22 honorees being selected from over 600 nominations).  So Bulthaup started calling friends in the industry to help lobby for the cause.  Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Ted Turner, Roger Ebert, Hugh Hefner, Tippi Hedren, Harvey Weinstein, Mickey Rooney, Jane Russell, AFI, Leonard Maltin, TCM as well as every major Hollywood studio including Warner Bros, Universal, MGM, Sony, Disney, Paramount and others all wrote letters or made personal appeals to the Mayor of Hollywood. The Munchkins were given their Star in November 2007.  The Mayor put there star next to his, right in front of Grauman’s.

The successful campaign and the ceremony itself became a 15-minute special feature on the 70th Anniversary Oz DVD and the event was covered on an unprecedented 575 television news shows in the USA alone, including Good Morning America, Entertainment Tonight, the Today Show, Access Hollywood and even Hardball with Chris Mathews took note.  Around the world event coverage included NPR, BBC, AP, Reuters and other news wire services.  Stories ran throughout Europe, China, India, Japan, and the Middle East – Bulthaup was even mentioned in an Istanbul newspaper as Cinesmon Sahib Ted Bulthaup.

The anniversary screenings of the Blues Brothers hosted by Dan Aykroyd were even covered on China television.  

Bulthaup and the theaters are still frequent subjects of state, national and worldwide news stories and a ‘go to’ resource for CNN, MSNBC, BBC, Reuters, and others on industry issues and events. 

Based on column inches, broadcast minutes, and website hits, the annual value of generated publicity approaches $15,000,000.  That is more than the entire tourism advertising budget for the City of Chicago and the State of Indiana combined. The cinema’s website receives at least 5000 hits per week and approximately 170,000 people subscribed to the movie guide which is distributed by email every week.  This was also great publicity for the cities in which the theaters were located.  Wink, Wink.

Bulthaup has always interacted with the community and charitable organizations. Giving away movie tickets are frowned upon by the studios and theaters doing so are charged the full cost of admission regardless of the no-charge ticket.  Most cinemas do not donate tickets because of those costs.  Bulthaup is different.

These efforts included quarterly Life Source blood drives at the cinemas, (get a free ticket when you give blood) and those two theaters were the largest private sources of blood in the State of Illinois.  Other highlights included the Easter Seals where entire facilities were donated for use to hold private pre-release events for each of the Harry Potter series of films. The funds were used for the fight against childhood leukemia and eventually a total of about $200,000 was raised.  

Total admissions of over $50,000 for a weekend of “Back to the Future” screenings were donated to the Michael J. Fox Foundation when four of the films actors, including Christopher Lloyd made an in- theater personal appearances.  When Terri Garr hosted screenings of “Young Frankenstein” and $30,000 was raised in one evening for the fight against MS (which she suffers from). The annual Oscar Night big screen event raised money for the Variety Children’s Charity, exceeding the amounts raised from Richard Roeper’s downtown Oscar events.   

Ted became good friends with Zach Gordon, star of the Whimpey Kid movies, and sponsored summer reading programs with the local libraries using the Wimpy Kid books with autographed movie posters as the prize.

Whenever the remaining Munchkins visited the theaters for the annual screenings of “The Wizard of Oz”; Bulthaup would take several of them to area hospitals and visit the children’s ward, or hold large “Meet a Munchkin” events in the hospital cafeterias.  Two free tickets were awarded for every toy donated to one of the theaters during the Christmas holidays, which were in turn donated to the WGN toy drive.  Karolyn Grimes who played ZuZu in “It’s a Wonderful Life” made 15 consecutive annual appearances to host screenings of that iconic film at the theaters.  Bulthaup would always have ZuZu lead the procession of toy laden vehicles to the studios, hosting on air segments for the toy drives final day and ZuZu filmed promo spots for the following year.  Bulthaup also occasionally lectured to students about marketing and entrepreneurship.               

Saving first for last, Bulthaup attended both Northern Illinois University for Biology and then DePaul University majoring in Business Administration and Law for a total of 4 years, all on scholarship. Early education included being named to the National Honor Society and President of the Senior Class at Downers Grove South High School, which is still the only graduating class to leave a surplus in the treasury.

Interested in many things, especially science and history, Ted still holds the record for the most 1st Place Science Awards in the State of Illinois.  Among other awards, Ted won the International Science & Engineering First Prize for Zoology for his work on the biology of bats.  This is the Olympics for science fairs with over 2,000,000 students competing worldwide.  He first worked with captive Vampire Bats at Brookfield Zoo in 7th grade and later had laboratory space and equipment at Argonne National Lab’s Biology Building for use in his work during his junior and senior years of High School.  Between the ages of 13 and 21, Bulthaup gained a national reputation for this work, was a guest lecturer at various high schools, colleges and even the US Naval Research Center in San Diego.  


Bulthaup was also widely covered in local and national media.  His first national television appearance was with Frank Reynolds on the ABC evening news, and later in “Real People” with Sarah Purcell; also the Associated Press, Chicago Tribune, National Enquirer, etc.  He was invited to write an article about his work for National Geographic at age 18, and to locate at the Panama Research Station on Barro Colorado Island for a summer of field work but decided show biz paid better.

Bulthaup was influential in inducing ComEd to donate a 212-acre tract of land that sheltered approximately 30,000 hibernating bats of six species, two of which were endangered and were the only surviving colony of these animals in Illinois.  Those long vacant mines and the surrounding area are now the Pecumsaugan Creek Nature Preserve.

It may be worth mentioning Bulthaup contracted rheumatic fever at age six, just after starting elementary school, was hospitalized and then confined to bed, not being allowed to walk for almost a year, home studying so as not to be left behind.   Bulthaup credits that period for any creativity he has.  Grew out of being confined to that bedroom.

Ted is a native Texan, born on June 1st, 19-a-while-ago, on a US Air Force base in Lubbock where his father was an officer and pilot.  Ted was a member of St’ Johns UCC while in Indianapolis (with which his family was affiliated for 4 generations) and now attends Calvary Church in suburban Naperville.  Recently divorced, he has three children and six grandchildren. Has sponsored Tony Curtis’ horse rescue ranch “Shiloh”, a tiger at Tippi Hedren’s big cat rescue sanctuary ‘Shamballa’,  (lions and tigers and no bears oh my), and Bat Conservation International.  Ted has also maintained his deep childhood interest in American history, especially the Texas Revolution and the Civil War period, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, and Hollywood movie history.








































































































































 








































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