Des Plaines Theater
1476 Miner Street,
Des Plaines,
IL
60016
1476 Miner Street,
Des Plaines,
IL
60016
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A section of the Des Plaines Theater’s auditorium ceiling collapsed forcing the cancellation of shows scheduled this coming weekend at the theater.
This article from the 1/11/13 Journal talks about the manager of the Des Plaines Theater being given six months by the Building Code Commission of the City of Des Plaines to make several key safety improvements, or possibly be shut down. Alderman Mark Walstein said at the meeting, “This committee has taken a very good step to put a business out of business.”
The principals of Pereira & Pereira, the firm that did the 1935 remodeling of the Des Plaines Theatre, were William Pereira and Hal Pereira. Percival Pereira was an older architect who was never a member of this firm.
David, the links embedding is working correctly as you can see here but people aren’t using the correct process to post links within posts.
A note to Cinema Treasures Admins. It has not been possible to access links that are embedded within posts, since the website makeover. Is there something that can be done to correct that?
New website is up at http://www.desplainestheatre.com. Photos from the grand opening will be up in a few days.
It was nice to see it “de-twinned” Friday night.
Restoration in progress:
http://stageoneproductionsdp.org/UpcomingEvents.aspx
Account of the reopening:
http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20111112/news/711129895/
As one who remembers the theatre as a dingy twin in the 80’s this is fantastic to see. I salute the effort and hope it serves the community for years to come.
There are some on the Revitalize Des Plaines facebook page. We’re working right down to the wire, but I’ll be sure to post some next week.
I’m really looking forward to the fact this will be reopening on Friday. I’m very glad it’ll no longer be a twin theater, a la what occurred with the Portage.
Hopefully, pics of the renovated interior emerge somewhere online…
Gotta be careful with the renovations.
That was nothing. It was totally contained within the furnace room; I stopped in later that day and it was already vacuumed up. I wouldn’t have known anything had happened unless someone told me. Literally just a dirty furnace.
Brian, the article below mentions “soot everywhere”. Do you know if there was any damage to the theater’s interior?
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Any news on how the renovations are going?
Thanks Lifes too short.
I remember going to the Des Plaines when I was a little kid. At the time it was a twin second run theatre. It was dark. It also had a strange shape (like all such conversions): graceful curve on one side, straight wall on the other. I remember a few plaster details covered with one color of paint. But that was the only vestige of the old days. If you can say anything about the 70’s & 80’s it is that twin conversions kept some of these places from being demolished long enough for alternative uses to arise.
I honestly didn’t think anything good was going to happen here, based on what I perceived to be the attitude of the owner. But it seems like better days may be ahead.
An article about the renovations: View link
View link This blog post of mine should have pretty much whatever you want.
While I know it may sometimes be difficult to get, I wish more photos of the interior of the theatres should be posted on Cinema Treasures.
Hey Brian, this is really exciting news! Thanks for letting us know about this work.
Work has begun to return the Des Plaines Theatre to a single screen.
Certainly not – as a matter of fact, View link
Is this theatre torn down?
I never understand it when someone takes ownership of a theater
and just lets it go totally into the toilet.
It is used on a rental basis.
Are you sure that the Des Plaines is still in operation because
I passed by about two weeks ago and there was newspaper covering
the doors and the marquee had some PSA type of message on it.
Place looks extremely neglected from the outside.