For decades, Joyland’s Louie the Clown played the Wurlitzer Style 160 “Mammoth” Military Band Organ. Courtesy photo The Wurlitzer organ that for nearly six decades served as the musical backdrop to ...
Stationed in Music Hall’s ballroom is an instrument few know about: the Wurlitzer organ—a special type of theater organ manufactured by the renowned Cincinnati-based Wurlitzer Company to accompany ...
Tucked away in the quiet industrial surf town of El Segundo, California, stands a cozy theater that has been around since 1921. Within that theater sits a rare gem, something that most of us no longer ...
You can hear the lush music from the Wurlitzer theater pipe organ before you ever lay eyes upon it. Once you do encounter the magnificent console hidden inside the Immanuel Organ Gym off Pikes Peak ...
"The picture is one of the best ever shown in Memphis, barring none," raved a movie reviewer credited as "A.M.D." in the Feb. 2, 1926, edition of The Commercial ...
This article, which first ran in Oct. 25, 2023, has been updated. After waiting five years, Milwaukee filmgoers finally got a chance in November to hear the restored 1925 Wurlitzer three-manual ...
An octogenarian is still going strong at the Paramount Theatre, the last of Seattle’s 1920s theater organs still fulfilling its original purpose. The Mighty Wurlitzer pipe organ, built in 1927 and ...