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Chicago's Paradise Theatre

Postby Ash » Wed Dec 15, 2004 3:19 am

Not sure how many of you have ever done a search for the old Chicago Paradise Theatre before, but I recently hung the album artwork up in my house (as I do for various pieces of album and painted art that I appreciate) and I decided to do a google for it.

Here are some things I have found:

http://www.moviepalaces.net/paradise-ext1.htm
http://www.moviepalaces.net/paradise-vestibule.htm
http://www.moviepalaces.net/paradise-interiors1.htm
http://www.moviepalaces.net/paradise-interiors2.htm
http://cinematreasures.org/theater/344/

This picture in particular seems to be what inspired the album art. Try looking at them side by side:

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Postby I Stumble In » Wed Dec 15, 2004 3:27 am

Ash,
I really appreciate the post - beautiful. Those old theater's are something. For those of you who haven't had the chance, and if you are ever in Detroit - the Fox Theatre is similiar and has been completely renovated - it's beautiful also - but not to the extent of the old Paradise!!
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Postby bugsymalone » Wed Dec 15, 2004 7:01 am

Thanks for sharing, Ash.

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Paradise Theatre

Postby kiddo » Wed Dec 15, 2004 10:50 am

>>>This picture in particular seems to be what inspired the album art. Try looking at them side by side:<<<

The album art might have been influenced also a bit by the Granada Theater which existed on the north side in Chicago and was torn down in 1990.

http://cinematreasures.org/theater/362/

Nice thread. :-)

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Postby bugsymalone » Wed Dec 15, 2004 11:16 am

Well, since we are on the subject.

Dennis says his inspiration for the Paradise Theater concert was the serigraph he saw in a Chicago art gallery.

Below are captures from an interview he did and showed the serigraph, which is mounted in his recording studio.

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Postby kiddo » Wed Dec 15, 2004 11:43 am

>>>Below are captures from an interview he did and showed the serigraph, which is mounted in his recording studio.<<<


Thanks for posting those. :-) I think Dennis also talked about the serigraph he bought in the brilliantly written Styx feature which appeared in Goldmine magazine.

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Postby kiddo » Wed Dec 15, 2004 12:05 pm

I know the artist was Robert Addison and his serigraphs were displayed exclusively at the Merrill Chase Galleries on Michigan Avenue in the late 70s. He died I believe in the late 1980s.


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