Coming soon: Lombard apartment project, Lilac_Station, pays homage to DuPage Theatre
The auditorium ceiling was painted dark blue and dotted with twinkling electric stars. Drifting clouds appeared to float overhead. Stucco arches and bell-shaped light fixtures made the interior look more like a Spanish mission-style patio. It set the scene for swashbuckling adventures or Bogie's film noirs.
The developer, Holladay Properties, had the theater's 1,600-pound ticket booth, with its marble base, spiral columns and decorative cornice, brought out of storage and restored to its original luster. A new"EAT" neon sign was made and installed on the corner of Lilac Station in downtown Lombard. The original"EAT" sign was hung on the former DuPage Theatre where the new apartment building has been built. - Paul Valade | Staff Photographer The developer's design team also duplicated the diamond pattern above the theater's marquee with tile installed over a fireplace in the lobby of Lilac Station.
The theater provided escapism during the Great Depression and survived the advent of television, but it began to fall into decay and became a second-run movie house. The original Spanish-terrace motif was covered in the mid-1980s when the theater was divided into three viewing rooms. The ticket booth was saved from the wrecking ball but had been sitting in storage. When the storage company changed hands, the historical society had to figure out what to do with the theater relic.
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