Spartanburg, SC

HAVEN OF REST STUDIO
Akron, OH.
The following information is submitted by Mr. Jack Bethards:

Haven of Rest Studio. The Haven of Rest religious broadcast had an art deco building done in a nautical motif. It had a 1921 style 210 Wurlitzer from the Apollo Theater opus 415. I never saw the organ but heard it on the air many times and it may still be there.

KGDM
Stockton, CA.
Comment from Mr. Norm Howard Lehfeldt of San Francisco, CA.

The 3/7 Moller in the studios of KGDM in Stockton, CA. I have an interest in all things KGDM because it is the station which I favored with my radio debut in about 1949!

Note: the March/April, 1992 issue of Theatre Organ Magazine includes a letter, signed by Tom DeLay, describing this organ.

ROXY THEATRE STUDIO
New York, N.Y.

The following information is submitted by Mr. Jack Bethards:

Roxy Theatre Studio, New York. The broadcasting studio in the Roxy, had. a two-manual, 8-rank Kimball organ built in 1927. I saw the organ just a day before the building was demolished. I believe that studio was used for many broadcasts and recordings and should perhaps have a place on your list.

WHDH
Boston, Mass.

Information by Mr. Jack Bethards:
WHDH, Boston. This station had Kilgen opus 5465 of 1935, a two-manual organ. This organ was used on early Bob and Ray radio broadcasts and of course many others as well. I had lengthy correspondence and conversations with a musician who was on staff there who verified this instrument.

KFOX
Long Beach, CA.
(Information provided by Jim Spohn)

History/Disposition:
On December 28,1928, a 3/7 Robert Morton organ, Opus 2471 left the factory to be installed in the California Theatre in Glendale. In 1932, the organ was moved to the studios KFOX in Long Beach. It is uncertain when it was again moved from the KFOX location, but it later went to the Church of Latter Day Saints in Porterville, Ca.

In 1980, Jim Spohn purchased the organ and installed it in a studio in Bakersfield. Jim later purchased the Granada Theatre and installed the organ there where it is still playing.

Jim also has part of the KNX Columbia Square Hollywood organ at the Granada also.

According to the Junchen database, KFOX also had a MAAS 2/4

WDOD
Chattanooga, TN. (Contributed by Larry Davis)
had a style 150 Wurlitzer, Opus 1981, in the station's studio. Disposition of this organ is being checked out.

KNBC
San Francisco, CA
Wurlitzer Opus 2035 (installed in 1942) 3 Manual Special (Original 1929 installation from Famous Player Studio in Los Angeles.

RADIO CITY STUDIOS (NBC)
San Francisco, CA.
Wurltizer (Opus 464) 210SP 19 rank 3 Manual. Original 1921 installation from the Paramount Studios in Los Angeles.

The following exerpt, written by Mr Jack Bethards, gives a picture of the relationships between local studios of network affiliates and the actual network production centers in large cities.

NBC Network, San Francisco. It is important to separate networks local station studios. In big cities they were often separate. Until 1927, NBC programs originated from KPO, their local red network affiliate. In 1927, NBC built a large network complex on the 22nd floor of the Hunter-Dulin building at 111 Sutter Street. From here they broadcast both on their red and blue networks (the local blue network affiliate was KGO and I don't believe it ever had a pipe organ.) In 1927, NBC bought an organ from the Don George theatre organ teaching studio and had it installed at 111 Sutter. It was a Robert-Morton two-manual, 6-rank job very highly unified. This organ was used on the famous network programs, One Man's Family and Paul Carson's Bridge to Dreamland. By 1935, most network production had moved to Hollywood. In 1942, the organ was sold to Charles Hershman, who removed it and re-installed it in 1944 with some modifications at St. Paul's Community Church in South San Francisco. It is currently being re-located to the Western States Museum of Broadcasting in Ashland, OR.

In 1942, NBC opened what was probably the most modern and perfect ra ever built at 420 Taylor Street. It also housed local stations KPO (later KNBC, later KNBR) and KGO. It was a modern-style building and still exists although the interior has been converted into office use. For studio B in that building they acquired, and Charles Hershman installed, the very fine Wurlitzer opus 2035 of 1929 from the Famous Players - Paramount Motion Picture Studio in Hollywood. This is the instrument mentioned in your Radio City Studios (NBC) citation. You mention the same instrument under KNBC, but KNBC never had a pipe organ of its own and should not be listed. (By the way, the NBC building was known as the Radio City of the West.) This organ was sold to Richard Simonton and installed with additions in his North Hollywood home.

KPO
San Francisco, CA.
The following information was submitted by Mr. Jack Bethards:

KPO, San Francisco. KPO was affiliated with and later owned by NB early days it was owned by the Hale Brothers department store and later in partnership with the San Francisco Chronicle newspaper. It's studios were on the sixth floor of the Hale Brothers department store building on Market Street. I believe their first organ was a Robert-Morton two-manual, 4-rank style 59. It was replaced in 1927 by a three-manual, 18-rank Welte. I got the specification for this organ from the original installation drawing in the Schoenstein files. It was moved to NBC in Hollywood in 1938.

KDKA 
Pittsburgh, PA. (The following items were contributed by Dr. Barry Henry)
Wurlitzer Opus 2231, a 3 manual Special.

KFRC
San Francisco, CA
Robert Morton 2 manual.
The following is an exerpt from a message received from Jack Bethards who is an organ builder as well as a radio historian.

KFRC, San Francisco. KFRC was owned by Don Lee, the California Ca. The Robert-Morton organ in your list was in the Don Lee building, but the only photograph of it shows it in the Cadillac showroom on the first floor. It may have been moved into the studios and used there, but I never heard about that. The main KFRC organ was installed, I would guess, when they modernized the studios in 1935. It was a three-manual, 19-rank (I believe) put-together job using parts mainly from the Murray M. Harris succession of companies. As I remember, it had American Photoplayer or Spencer and Murray M. Harris or Johnston chests among others. I believe the console was a Spencer. The organ was a terrible mongrel, but sounded very nice on the radio. It was maintained (and I believe installed) by a local firm, Martin and Fallis. It was later sold to a Lutheran church in the East Bay and then broken up for parts and replaced by a Möller organ.

WSMK
Dayton, Oh
1933 Wurlitzer Style "E" Sepcial (Opus 1750)
(had previously been incorrectly listed as a Style "R"

Note by the present owner of the organ, John Scott:

Thanks very much for all your work in compiling the info about  Radio Station organs.  As a person interested in this sort of history, I had thought of starting such a project myself.  I am glad to see that you included WSMK among the Ohio stations.  However,  I am curious as to your source(s) of information about Wurlitzer Opus 1750, since the listing as style R is not correct.  The Wurlitzer lists compiled by Judd Walton, updated in 1973, indicate that its designation should be Style E Special.  It was a special because it had an extra rank, and because it had a player.  I now own this organ, and the small relay for the player is still with it, because that small relay makes a nice pedestal for one of the switch stacks.

When I acquired Opus 1750 about 1970, I made a trip to Dayton with a friend, and we researched microfilms of Dayton newspapers in the 1927 period.  The Wurlitzer lists indicate initial shipment to "A New (LH Cox) Theatre".  What we found were articles and advertising for the Palace Theatre, LH Cox, Manager, which opened December 25, 1927.  Another interesting bit was that the theatre was for African-American patrons.  We then traveled out to the site and found the building still there, although without heat or electricity, and clearly doomed.  I took a color picture of the exterior, which I later had enlarged to an 8" x 10" size.  We were able to find an agent, who let us in,and with flashlights we saw the auditorium and a big hole in the wall on stage left where the single chamber organ installation had once been.

The Wurlitzer listings indicate Moby's Department Store in Columbus as the next stop for Opus 1750 before it reached WSMK.  However, I contacted noted Columbus organist Roger Garrett about that, and have a signed letter from him stating that to the best of his knowledge the Wurlitzer was never installed there.  He stated that he played a Moller at Moby's.

The Moby's thing, however does indicate another possible interesting article for T.O. mag, namely department stores that had organs.  Another one that I know of was the Herz store in Terre Haute, Indiana, which had a Barton of a few ranks; it later went to a church, and after that to an individual.

In my Email to you in early 2007, I mentioned a radio station organ in Toronto which I thought was a Casavant.  However, I have since confirmed that it was built by the Franklin Legge firm, another Canadian builder of some note.  An interesting sidelight about that is that the Legge organ was sold to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation at auction in 1923 from the Casa Loma mansion where our Canadian friends now have the Wurlitzer.

KFI
Los Angeles, CA
Maas 2/4 organ

The following information was submitted by Mr. Jack Bethards:

KFI, Los Angeles. KFI was the NBC Red affiliate owned by Earl C. California Packard dealer, who also owned KECA, the NBC Blue affiliate. KFI had a Maas organ of two-manuals and 4-ranks. I saw that organ in the Vermont Street building and remember that the console was painted in the same institutional green color as the wainscoting of the studio! The building has been destroyed and I have no idea where the organ went. It is possible that KFI may have had an organ before this time in some earlier studio location, but I have never heard about it. I don't think that the Maas organ was installed early enough to have ever been used
on NBC network broadcasts. By that time, NBC had their own very large facility.

CFRB
Toronto Canada
Wurlitzer Opus 1743,  2/4

WNAC
Boston, Mass
Wurlitzer Opus 1742, 2/8 190

WKRC
Cincinnati, OH
Wurlitzer Opus 2643, 2/4 Style B Special

WTOC
Savannah, GA
Wurlitzer Opus 1578, 2/4 Style B

NBC Studios Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA.

The following was submitted by Mr. Jack Bethards:

NBC Studios, Hollywood. The first stand-alone NBC Studio was buillt at 5515 Melrose Avenue right near the Paramount lot. It was a beautiful art deco building and still exists as a television studio. I don't believe it had a pipe organ. It is possible that they may have used the Paramount Studio organ for broadcasts since it was literally a walk-away. That may also be the reason that they acquired the Paramount organ for their San Francisco building since they may have been familiar with it. (The Melrose building had a very fascinating history. Radio grew so quickly that this 1935 building was obsolete by 1938. It was then used by KHJ and the Mutual Don Lee Broadcasting System, then by Capitol Records and later by a succession of radio and television stations.)

The 1938 NBC building was a magnificent plant with many large auditoriums It is certainly one of the finest studios ever built. Strangely enough, given the lavish expenditure on the property, it is surprising that they had a hybrid organ made up for their studio G. The basis of it was the KPO San Francisco Welte organ. To it was added a lot of Wurlitzer material to the specifications of Paul Carson. The organ was installed by Charlie Hershman and Henry Pope. Later, Charlie left the job and Henry Pope finished it along with his helper Will Knights. I met Henry Pope at NBC and I knew Mr. Knights as well. That organ was one of the most famous radio organs because it became the One Man's Family and Bridge to Dreamland organ after those shows moved from San Francisco to Hollywood. That organ was later acquired by Paul Michelson and I'm not sure where it is now. It has been well documented in the theatre organ magazines from time-to-time.

WLS
Chicago, IL
WLS had a 3/12 Barton with a straight console. It lasted into the fifties when ABC bought WLS and terminated the WLS original studios

WLS also had a 1928 Link 2/3 with blower # 21959

WHAD
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Wurlitzer Opus 1579 2/5 R5 Special

WWVA
Wheeling, West Virginia
Wurlitzer Opus 1532 2/5 Style B Special

WIOD
Miami, Florida
Wurlitzer Opus 1466 2/7 EX

CKLA
Windsor, Ontario
Wurlitzer Opus 1483 2/5 Style B Special

KFWB
Los Angeles, CA
Wurlitzer (This organ is believed to have been the Wurlitzer Opus 2022 from Warner Bros. Studio. According to George Wright, Buddy Cole's organ came from KMTR in Hollywood.) If anyone has additional informaiton on this, we would appreciate any update or correction)

The following is submitted by Mr. Jack Bethards:

KFWB, Los Angeles. At one time, the KFWB studios were located on Brothers, Sunset Boulevard lot. I believe the main studio served both as a sound stage for picture recording and as a radio studio. I have one picture which shows it set up as an auditorium studio. This is Wurlitzer opus 2022 of 1929, a three-manual, 18-rank Wurlitzer. The organ was acquired later by radio actor, Joe Kerns, and put in his Hollywood home. (I don't know anything about the KMTR organ mentioned in your KFWB listing. I know Buddy Cole had a studio organ, but I'm not sure of its origins. I believe the KMTR organ should be listed separately.)

WHAS
Louisville, KY
(Information supplied by Timothy Jones)
WHAS, Louisville, KY, had a Kilgen which started out as a 3 manual 11 or so rank instrument. Over the years, additions were made by Kilgen bringing it up to a 4/17 I believe. At some point, the organ was sold and reinstalled in a local arena, Memorial Gardens, where it currently resides. It plays but is rarely used. Herbie Koch used to play the instrument when it was in the radio station.

This organ was Opus 5009 (1933). Additions were as follows:
5124 - Replace sax with clarinet on opus 5009. $212.00
5198- Replaced post horn with trumpet on opus 5009.
5212-Electrify Player piano owned by WHAS, add mandolin and make playable from organopus 5009. $300.00
5769- Enlarge existing organ, opus 5009; see also opus 7179. New console for opus 5769

WSPD
Toledo, Ohio
Wurlitzer Opus 1425 2/5 Style B Special

WTAM / WEAR
Cleveland, Ohio
Wurlitzer Opus 1099 3/15 Special

KMTR
Los Angeles, CA
(Information provided by Ray Thursby)
In 1928, the Capitol Theatre in Marshalltown, Iowa installed a 3-9 Robert Morton. This was later moved to radio station KMTR in Los Angeles, California. According to Dave Junchen's Encyclopedia of the American Theater Organ, it was either later moved to TV station KTLA in Burbank, CA or else it was listed as KTLA which was the parent station of KMTR (corrected per update memo). I have no information on that move. Regardless, it was purchased by Buddy Cole, who installed it in his North Hollywood, CA home. There, it was expanded to 12 ranks. When Cole built a new studio to house the former United Artists Theatre Wurlitzer (a 17-rank Style 260 Special), nine of the Morton ranks and their chests plus the Crysoglott were added to the Wurlitzer. The rest was dispersed.

The following is submitted by Mr. Jack Bethards:

(I don't know anything about the KMTR organ mentioned in your KFWB listing. I know Buddy Cole had a studio organ, but I'm not sure of its origins. I believe the KMTR organ should be listed separately.)

WMCA
New York, NY
Wurlitzer Opus 748 2/7 Style E

WMAQ
Chicago, IL
Wurlitzer Opus 309 3/13 Special

KMJ
Fresno California
(contributed by Tom DeLay)
The KMJ organ was soldt, intact, to the late Bob Kates in Berkeley, CA. Bob added 4 ranks to the organ when it was in his home, now comprising a 2/13. Bob made a few recordings on the instrument. In 1962, it was sold to the late Carsten Henningsen and installed in his Ye Olde Pizza Joynt in Haward/San Leandro, CA. In the late 1960s a 3 manual style 235 console was added to the Fresno State/KMJ organ and surplused the original 2m console. This console was not sent through a series of owners. From Carsten Henningsen, the original 2m Fresno console was sold to Warren Blankenship in Pacific Grove, CA. The console remained the property of Mr. Blankenship until his death in the late 1990s. The hybrid instrument owned by Mr. Blankenship (including the Fresno State/KMJ console) was donated to Nor Cal Theatre Organ Society based in Berkeley, CA. The Fresno console was then sold to local enthusiast Bob Coffin. He then sold the console to Dick Taylor who will use the console as parts.

WGR 
Buffalo, New York
Wurlitzer Opus 1118 3/10 stated as a Style F
(contributed by Terry Hochmuth)

WKBW
Buffalo, New York

Wurlitzer Opus 2238 (last organ out) was originally shipped to the Rialto Theatre in Lockport, N.Y. It was then repossessed by Wurlitzer and installed in WKBW. In 1947, it was removed from the radio station and purchase by Transfiguration Catholic Church in Cheektawoga, NY (suburb of Buffalo). Terry reports that he purchased it in 1992 and removed it for installation in his office supply store. After an accident and fire in 1995, Terry sold it to Jerry Critser in Joliet who Terry believes still has it in storage. The organ was a 3/10 with a single stop rail console. Specs were: Main- Open Flute, Solo String, Celeste and Kinura swapped out with a church Quint. Solo- Tibia, Tuba, Vox, Orch. Oboe, and Kinura but the percussions were gone. The trap counter was also with the instrument but all of the traps had been removed and the holes stuffed with rags.

WLW
Cincinnati, Ohio
(contributed by John Alford)

This station, owned by Powell Crosley, actually had three pipe organs including a Style B. The main organ. Wurlitzer Opus 1001 began as a Style H Special and was enlarged, including the addition of a three manual console in 1929. 

The organ was removed and relocated in the Shady Nook restaurant in Cincinnati. At some point, the restaurant closed and the owners had the power to the building cut off. Which disabled sump pumps and allowed the organ chambers to flood. The crew who removed the organ had to wear masks because of the mold that had formed. There was some question about how much of this organ was actually the WLW organ because of the various additions that had been made in 1929. John Alford obtained some of the pipe work at that time on the chance that they were actually the pipes used at WLW and played by Lee Erwin. During the time at the restaurant, however, the owner swapped out some of the ranks, which clouded the whole matter of what parts were from the original organ. At this time, the Shady Nook Restaurant is in bad condition. 

WDAY
Fargo, ND
(contributed by Dave Knudtson)

3 Rank Barton that was played by Hildegarde Usselman Krauss who also played in theatres well into her 90's. The Barton  was later moved to a roller rink.  The station continued to utilize live organ music into the 80's first with a Hammond and later with a Conn.

KFPW
Ft. Smith, AR.
Kilgen 2/6  OPUS 5616

WLAC
Nashville, Tennessee
(contributed by John Alford)

WLAC had a 4 manual 12 Rank Kilgen organ (Opus 6013-A-B). The owners of the station were Life And Casualty Insurance of Nashville. John is not sure about the total disposition of the organ, however, he presently has the post horn which is voiced on 15 inches.

WJJD
Chicago, IL
Geneva
(contributed by Les Hickory)
Howard L. Peterson also did broadcasts from the Arcada Theatre in St. Charles, IL. over WJJD

WJJD first put on the air in 1924 by J.J. Davies (WJJD) in 1924 at Moosehart, the Moose Club Children's Home, located north of Aurora, Illinois. It was reallocated to Chicago in 1941 and operated on "limited hours" from 1941 to 1980. Geneva would be Geneva Marr and Colton 3/16. The original Marr and Colton was a 3/10. Geneva made two modifications to the Marr and Colton with each organist hired after the first. There were two and Howard Peterson being the 3rd. The original Marr and Colton was installed over the summer of 1926 and was ready for the opening on Labor Day in September 1926. Nine months later the organist left and 2nd one wanted changes. 3 ranks and a piano were added to what was a cold air return and would have been a chamber if a larger organ would have been installed. A 2nd blower and relay were added in the basement next to the boiler in a room where the electric service entered the building. One year later Howard was hired. The Marr and Colton console was stationary in the pit. The pit was expanded, a whole dug and a cable lift installed and a new console build by Geneva and design by the theatre owner, who was an artist, was built and installed. Three more ranks were added and installed in the back of the theatre in what was a storage room in the booth area. The Geneva relay that was installed a year ago was added to and the wind from that blower was ran to the back of the house. No other changes were made to the organ after that. We don't know when Howard left, but do know that a Les Doyle played the organ either during WW2 or after. Then the organ was silent for many years until CATOE came in and I became the next paid house organist. 1974 to 1985..

WGN
Chicago, IL
Wurlitzer
This instrument started out as a 2/7 in the Bismark Hotel.  It was repossessed from a band leader who defaulted on his payments and resold to WGN. When WGN built their studio in the Tribune Tower,
They had Kimball rebuild the organ as a 3/10 adding 3 Kimball ranks. These were defined as Open Diapason with 16 foot extension being diapason and not a Diaphone as Wurlitzer would have done, a church style English Horn and a Clarinet. The organ had two consoles, one in the studio where the chamber was located and one in a remote studio on the first floor. The organist had to listen to the instrument through earphones in the remote studio.

When the organ was removed from WGN, the Kimball portions, including the console, were sold to a private individual, and the Wurlitzer portion was installed at Mundelein. The Kimball console and the 16’ Open Diapason were destroyed in a house fire in Wisconsin.

Both the WGN and WLS organs were heard into the late 1950’s with staff organist Harold Turner providing a half-hour program each Sunday morning where the newspaper comics were read to kids. WLS had a 3/12 Barton with a straight console. It lasted into the fifties when ABC bought WLS and terminated the WLS original studios
After Harold Turner retired, the organ was used infrequently if at all.

KSTP
Minneapolis / St. Paul, MN.

This station had two organs.
A 1928 3 Manual Robert Morton (Blower serial #21291)
The station also had Wurlitzer Opus 1404, a 260 Special which came from the Paramount Theatre in St. Paul. The organ was donated to the Phipps Center in Hudson, WI by the Hubbard family. Staff organists were Leonard Leigh, Joan Beverly and Mrs. Ray Kroc.

WENR
Chicago, IL
Contributed by Doug Powers
Wurlitzer Opus 1659 3 Manual 10 Rank Special (Installed 1927)

Console is owned by Doug Powers. It was said to have been played by Jesse and Helen Crawford regularly. This was a special console which was fully loaded with 72 tabs on each of two stop rails. The console has undergone modifications by Chuck Blair and finally Ken Crome. Some of the pipework was reportedly in the possession of Ron Rhode. The present console owner, Doug Powers, has converted it to operate a Walker Digital organ.

NBC Merchandise Mart
Chicago, Il.
Wurlitzer 3 manual
This organ went to Colorado Springs where it was eventually broken up.

KJR
Seattle, Washington
1930 Estey Opus 2945  2 manual 3 rank OPUS 2945  GRAND MINUETTE
The organ was removed in 1939 and was transferred to the Bethany Lutheran Church in Warren, Oregon. Two ranks were added at that time. In 1947, it was enlarged to 12 ranks and went to the home of William Hubley in Seattle.

KOL
Seattle, WA
Kimball 3 manual 12 rank
KOL studios were located in the Northern Life Tower in downtown Seattle. A 3/12 organ was installed by Balcom and Vaughan in 1831 and was a combination of two organs: a 2/5 Kimball from the Frand Theatre and a 2/10 Wurlitzer from the Colonial Theatre. The organ was controlled by a Wurlitzer console that had been modified by Balcom to 3 manuals.

According to Eugene Nye, the organ was purchased by Don Myers in 1960 for $2000. It was stored but never inetalled. It was later sold to Dr. Gordon Potter of Portland, Oregon.

KOMO
Seattle, Washington
Wurlitzer Opus 1194 enlarged by Balcom and Vaughan to 3 Manual, 10 Rank

KOMO studios were located in the Skinner Building in downtown Seattle. The organ was installed by Balcom and Vaughan in September of 1939 and based around a 2/7 Wurlitzer from West Seattle’s Granada (Egyptian) Theatre. In 1961, B&V removed it and installed it in the Des Moines, Washington (suburb of Seattle) residence of Bennett Fisher, heir to the Fisher Flour Mills Co. The Fisher Family owned the majority share of KOMO Radio.

KMO
Tacoma, WA.
Robert Morton 2 manual 8 rank

A 1931 installation by Balcom and Vaughan based aroung a 2/4 Wicks manufactured Morton from Tacoma’s Park Theatre. In 1953, the organ was moved to Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Tacoma. In 1956, it was removed from the church and the current disposition is unknown.

KIT
Yakima, Washington
Wurlitzer / Balcom and Vaughan 2 manual 5 rank based on Wurlitzer Opus 835, a 2/4 originally from Portland’s Victoria Theatre.

KFPY
Spokane, WA.
This is a 1939 Balcom and Vaughan installation of a Wurlitzer 3 manual, 10 Rank which was originally Wurlitzer Opus 977. Opus 977 was first installed in 1924 in the Scheuster’s Theatre in Long Beach and then was relocated to the Arcade Theatre in Los Angeles in 1933.

In 1953, the organ was removed and Balcom and Vaughan installed it in Seattle’s Rolladium Skating Rink. 

KHQ
Spokane, WA.
Wurlitzer 2 manual 10 rank

KEX
Portland, Oregon
Wood  2 manual

KGW / KEX
Portland, Oregon
Wurlitzer 3 Manual 9 Rank
This instrument was originally a 1924 Opus 957 Style DX (2 chambers) which was installed in the Multnomah (Venetian) Theatre in the St. Johns District of Portland. In 1936, Balcom and Vaughn moved it to KGW / KEX Radio’s studio (NBC) located in the old Oregonian Building. Later that year, the console was modified to hold three manuals, and  three Gottfried ranks (an English Horn, a French Horn and a Clarinet) were added.

KOIN
Portland, Oregon
Robert Morton 3 manual 6 rank (Originally from the Astoria People’s Theatre and later in Seattle’s Olympic (Town And Country) Theatre. The KOIN installation by Balcom and Vaughan included a 3 manual console that was enlarged from a 2 manual Wurlitzer console by the Balcom and Vaughan firm. At that time, a Style D trumpet and a Wurlitzer Tibia were added.

KOIN radio started in 1926 in the basement of the original Heathman Hotel in Portland. The new Heathman Hotel was constructed in 1927, and KOIN eventually moved its studios to the new building. Between 1933 and 1939, several modifications were made to the mezzanine level to accommodate the expanding needs of the radio station. In 1935, the 3/6 Robert Morton organ was installed by Balcom and Vaughan in the new Heathman building studios. At that time, KOIN had a larger staff of musicians and entertainers than all other Portland stations combined.

In 1955, the organ was again moved to St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Oregon City. It was eventually broken up for parts by Mike Dillon, with the trumpet going to Dale Haskin and the Tibia to Bert Hedderly.

KXL
Portland, Oregon
Wood 2 Manual 9 Rank

CJOR
Vancouver, B.C.
Kimball 2 Manual 4 Rank

According to the Junchen opus lists, CJOR had a 2/4 Kimball. The install date and theatre of origin are unknown.

KNX
Los Angeles, CA
Wurlitzer 3 manual 11 rank Styke F Opus 1516 from the Capitol (Legion) theatre in Walla-Walla WA.

This is the original Wurlitzer Opus Walla Walla Legion (Capitol) theatre Wurlitzer that was installed in KNX by Balcom and Vaughan in 1937

Mr. Jack Bethards has kindly submitted information on KNX as follows:

KNX, Los Angeles. The organ you list for KNX should be listed und CBS-Columbia Square, Studio 4. This as a CBS network facility primarily and also housed their local affiliate KNX. Before that facility was built in 937, KNX had its own studio down the street on Sunset that housed a three-manual, 10-rank Robert-Morton. That studio was taken over by KMPC subsequently and I'm not sure whether they kept the organ or not. It is now a restaurant and the organ is gone.

BBC
London
(information provided by Ian McIver)
BBC Theatre Organ II was Foort's 5c/27 travelling Moller organ that was loaned by him during the war and installed first in Llandudno and later in Bangor (both in north Wales) before being purchased by the BBC after the war and installed in the Jubilee Chapel, Hoxton, London until its sale to the Netherlands in 1963.  It is now in Pasadena after a spell in a pizza restaurant.  

Crystalate Studios, Marylebone Rd, London, 1932,  - Wur 2/5 Op 1354 (a second-hand enlarged Style B - Tibia up to 2ft added - from USA) - that within about a year moved to Filmophone Strudios, Broadhurst Gardens, West Hampstead, which in 1937 became Decca Studios,  –  used not only for recording but for many broadcasts by BBC (prior to installation of the BBC Theatre organ in 1936) and European commercial broadcasting stations

BBC Theatre Organ III was a 3/13 Wurlitzer from the Empress Ballroom, Manchester, which was installed in the late 60s in Playhouse, Hume, Manchester, where it remained for a decade or so before being sold and incorporated in the current instrument at the Assembly Hall, Worthing.

The following list of WLW organists was supplied by Stan Krider

Theatre organists for radio station WLW:

Thomas "Fats" Waller (1932 - 33; played the Moon River program anonymously because WLW did not want it known that the famous jazz organist was providing the quiet music)
Gene Perazzo (first Moon River organist)
Lee Erwin (earlier Moon River organist)
Gladys "Happy" Lee
Pat Gillick
Arthur Chandler, Jr. (A.K.A. "Jelly Sandwich)
Don Simmons
Burt Farber
Johanna Gross
Jack Saatkamp
Jessie Walker
Bert Little
Herschell Luecke (organist during the final "Moon River" program featuring Bill Myers, reader, and Ruby Wright, vocalist. Organ was a Baldwin Orgasonic in WLW's Studio E)
Cliff Lash

NOTE: In addition to the organists listed above, there were countless organists who conducted radio shows, featuring pipe organs, from local theatres. Bernard Carpenter, and J. Louis Sayre from the Imperial in Augusta and Bob Van Camp from the Atlanta Fox were names submitted by Larry Davis.

Jack Bethards submitted these names as well: These organists are likely to have played some pipe organ dates: Eunice Steel, Floyd Wright, Don George. Finally, Richard Purvis played for many years a regular broadcast from the Chapel of the Chimes mausoleum under the name Richard Irvin.