Fisher Building-- real story behind gold roof removal?

[beachboy]

[...] In the hysteria following the Dec. 7, 1941 bombing of Pearl Harbor, many building owners took steps to prevent them from being a bombing casualty... including darkening the building roof. As for theatres, the marquees and tall blade signs were not lit at night. A common thing that many theatre owners did was to remove large chandeliers in grand lobbies or auditoriums, in case of enemy bombing the chandeliers would not fall onto theatre patrons. More often than not many of these chandeliers were hastily put into non-secure storage... and ended up being dismantled into smaller lighting fixtures. Many posh residences across America have remnants of those unfortunate theatre fixtures that never made it back to their theatre at wars end.

Thank you for the history, Gistok!! You are a treasure

Some theaters still have their chandeliers, e.g., the Chicago Theatre:
https://i.pinimg.com/236x/b8/2d/39/b...handeliers.jpg

and the Los Angeles Theater:
https://s3-media3.fl.yelpcdn.com/bph...qPSGA/348s.jpg

and many others. But you are correct [[as usual) in writing that many theaters foolishly removed their gorgeous pendant lighting fixtures.

So this begs the question ... what type and placement of lighting was in the original Fisher Theatre? Here is an online article with an image of FT's current type of chandelier under the balcony:
http://jovoneverett.blogspot.com/200...etroit-mi.html