Vintage Illini Ballroom (Decatur, IL) Weekly Dance Night Wooden Display Sign mixers MM - C-5126 - 100223

MM - C-5126 - 100223

A tin-lined interior-remarkably clean relative to the outside-still opens and closes smoothly on its metal pivot tabs

Leather shows age-appropriate creasing and small abrasions but remains soft and intact

The seat of this chair rests at a height of 17"

Typical of postwar home-improvement advertising

Vintage Illini Ballroom (Decatur, IL) Weekly Dance Night Wooden Display Sign mixers MM - C-5126 - 100223c. 1930s 1940s; Illini Ballroom Decatur, IL Hand painted wooden advertising sign promoting weekly dances at the Illini Ballroom, featuring bold block lettering and script accents in red and black on a cream ground, topped with a single red star. The sign reads "Dancing Every Sat. Nite" and identifies Lew Hogan as manager, with additional lettering noting the ballroom's availability for private parties. The form is vertically oriented with a peaked