Billy Corgan’s surprise birthday present is complete — and he’ll unveil the restored Orange Garden ‘chop suey’ sign Saturday.
“When I lived on Irving Park Road, during the early halcyon days of the Pumpkins circa 1988, I walked past this iconic sign 1,000 times,” he told the Tribune in the spring. “And I would always take a moment to stop and admire its beauty and connection to a lost and gilded age.”The sign hung over Orange Garden, the oldest Chinese restaurant in the city, in the North Center neighborhood.
It also remains unclear when the iconic sign was installed over the sidewalk out front. The curvaceous sign once read on three lines: “Orange Garden. Chop Suey. Chow Mein.” In 2008, the Chinese restaurant’s current owner, Hui Ruan, took over from his brother, with help from his son and daughter. Two years later, they began requesting estimates to fix the famous sign from Flashtric, the company that made it. Some of the neon worked, some didn’t, and it was falling apart over the sidewalk.
“We were trying to see how we could refurbish it to keep its original aesthetic,” said Angela Demir, current owner of Flashtric. The last proposal in 2013, to fix falling rust and to get the neon back to fully working order, was for $4,100.
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