Christopher & Sophia
The Venue
135 N 2nd St, DeKalb, IL 60115
The Egyptian Theatre has roots back to the age of the pharaohs. This historic structure owes this connection to the discovery of the tomb of King Tut in 1922. The Egyptian influence reached DeKalb County in 1928, when the DeKalb Theatre Company was trying to settle on a design for a combination motion picture house and vaudeville theatre. The stock market crash in October 1929 changed some building plans, but failed to dampen the opening celebration. The unique broken-tile main lobby floor was a compromise with a dollar shortage; it was originally supposed to be marble.
By the 1930s, the theatre was one of over 100 theatres across the country to decorate itself in an Egyptian style. Of all the Egyptian theatres, the DeKalb theatre is one of only 7 remaining in the United States and is the only Egyptian Theatre east of the Rocky Mountains.
The theatre has had many famous (and ghostly) visitors!
https://egyptiantheatre.org/history/
For all the days along the way