My grandfather was also a concert violinist and his primary business with the music shop was concert level music lessons, at the time the Paradise was finished and he moved his shop from Elmhurst (was called McGovern music studio before the theater was finished) his health was declining from serving in battle with the army band in WWI and being exposed to mustard gas, I don’t believe he was playing at this point anymore himself but he also was the owner/director of the Civic Philharmonic Orchestra, while I don’t have any proof of at this point but I highly suspect they were the resident orchestra for the theater
I had posted back on 11Oct10 about my grandfathers music shop that we suspected was located in the Paradise theater. Well my mom past in Jan. and we are still going through the tons and tons of her stuff (she kept everything from her childhood on up). I figured at some point we would find the difinitive proof that the sign was actually from the Paradise theater and yesterday we did in the form of a billing receipt pad that has the Paradise music shop header on it and then the location.
Now that I know it was room 210 I need to try and figure out what street that office window faced and see if I can find a pictue of this sign in the window.
My grandfather was a violinist and had a studio he gave music lessons at in Chicago in the 30’s. We never put this together before but my mom has always said his studio was in the paradise building. We just showed my mom the pictures of the theater and she thinks that it is where his studio was but its hard to be sure since she has Alzhiemers, but her memorys of before the 50’s seem to be pretty intact.
We still have the signs from his studio that according to her were in the front second story window and over the door. The big window sign (which I have on a wall in our house)says “Paradise Music Shop” the smaller sign says “Music Studio” I was wondering if anyone had ever seen a picture of the store fronts with the paradise music shop sign in a second story window from sometime in the 30’s or a hallway picture with the music studio sign over a door? If so any info would be appreciated.
Here is a current picture of the sign, it is done in gold leaf with a thick bevelled glass front on it
My grandfather was also a concert violinist and his primary business with the music shop was concert level music lessons, at the time the Paradise was finished and he moved his shop from Elmhurst (was called McGovern music studio before the theater was finished) his health was declining from serving in battle with the army band in WWI and being exposed to mustard gas, I don’t believe he was playing at this point anymore himself but he also was the owner/director of the Civic Philharmonic Orchestra, while I don’t have any proof of at this point but I highly suspect they were the resident orchestra for the theater
Heh I cant figure out how to post the link so they are at the top of the page……you get the idea lol.
I had posted back on 11Oct10 about my grandfathers music shop that we suspected was located in the Paradise theater. Well my mom past in Jan. and we are still going through the tons and tons of her stuff (she kept everything from her childhood on up). I figured at some point we would find the difinitive proof that the sign was actually from the Paradise theater and yesterday we did in the form of a billing receipt pad that has the Paradise music shop header on it and then the location.
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Now that I know it was room 210 I need to try and figure out what street that office window faced and see if I can find a pictue of this sign in the window.
http://s1118.photobucket.com/albums/k607/slowdrive/?action=view¤t=Picture-2.jpg
Edit….I cant seem to get the direct links to show up so you can click them…..sorry
My grandfather was a violinist and had a studio he gave music lessons at in Chicago in the 30’s. We never put this together before but my mom has always said his studio was in the paradise building. We just showed my mom the pictures of the theater and she thinks that it is where his studio was but its hard to be sure since she has Alzhiemers, but her memorys of before the 50’s seem to be pretty intact.
We still have the signs from his studio that according to her were in the front second story window and over the door. The big window sign (which I have on a wall in our house)says “Paradise Music Shop” the smaller sign says “Music Studio” I was wondering if anyone had ever seen a picture of the store fronts with the paradise music shop sign in a second story window from sometime in the 30’s or a hallway picture with the music studio sign over a door? If so any info would be appreciated.
Here is a current picture of the sign, it is done in gold leaf with a thick bevelled glass front on it
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