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 ...

The original 1924 Wurlitzer organ at Hotel 24 South in Staunton. Twenty years ago, the hotel (then the Stonewall Jackson Hotel) reopened and the organ was first played for the public in over 55 years.

The Smithsonian's Wurlitzer (its console above, with the Star-Spangled Banner) likely played the national anthem before movies. Eric Long/National Musuem of American History, SI Of all the musical ...

Silent Films Night at the Venango Museum in Oil City features the same Wurlitzer organ used at the old Latonia Theater in the ...

THIS THEATRE opening must be the bee’s knees if they’re making Seattle’s mayor, Bertha Knight Landes, pay 50 cents to get in, just like everyone else. Newspaper photographers are asking her to pose ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The collection documents the history and development of the Wurlitzer Company and consists of company publications, business records, employee ...

For a generation in Indianapolis, the old Paramount Music Palace housed a grand, booming pipe organ that provided a schmaltzy soundtrack to birthday parties, Little League team dinners, grandparent ...

BRECKSVILLE, OH (WOIO) - Harold Wright bought his Brecksville home knowing he wanted it to be a musical space. “When I bought the house, it was with the intention of installing something,” Wright said ...

One of the last surviving Wurlitzer organs in the country, which once entertained crowds at a posh Baltimore movie theater, will return to a downtown stage after a 42-year hiatus in the suburbs. The ...

GEDDES, N.Y. — Take a trip to the Empire Theatre at the New York State Fairgrounds and you will soon find yourself surrounded by the sounds of a bygone era. "It's a unique sound," Denny Randall, from ...

Reading Rudolph Wurlitzer’s novels is like watching a road movie backward. In his 1969 underground classic, “Nog,” the narrator drifts across an amorphous terrain on which his shifting identity molds ...