Fargo Theatre
643 E. Lincoln Highway,
DeKalb,
IL
60115
643 E. Lincoln Highway,
DeKalb,
IL
60115
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December 7th, 1929 grand opening ad in the photo section.
I’ve just been informed the Fargo Theater fashion store conversion photos I posted in the Photos Section, are from October 1974.
I just added 3 images to the Photos Section. They are courtesy of Chicago graphic artist Shelley Howard. Who in the early `80s was commissioned to design an art deco motif at the Fargo Theatre. For it’s brief run as a designer clothing outlet. This would be what Darrel Wood’s 2005 post refers to.
He designed and painted the marquee and the murals in the lobby interior.
Shelley also designed promotional posters for JAM Productions concerts in Chicago, that hung above the door of NEO nightclub & other clubs. Old school graphics via keyline & paste up, no computers.
The marquee has been removed.
Opened Nov. 1929
At some point in the 1970s this was the Fargo Skating Rink…the rink was in the auditorium and the lobby was, well, the lobby. In the late 70s or early 80s, long after the rink closed, the lobby was home to a clothing store called The Fargo Theatre. When it was a roller rink, a friend of my brother lived in the apartment upstairs…I recall they owned a pipe organ (although I don’t believe it was from the Fargo—-I think they moved it there), and I think somewhere in the apartment was a window that originally opened into what was the auditorium.
Also known as New Fargo. Part of the Polka Brothers circuit in the 1930s.