1927 - Auditorium interior and top of console (Photograph from an archival source: Addlestone Library: Pastime Amusement Archive, submitted by Jacob Woods/Jacob Woods)
Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)
2007-11-25 - Identified from factory documents and publications courtesy of Stephen Schnurr. -Database Manager
2021-01-22 - The organ was installed around 1927 at Albert Sottile's Gloria Theatre (Pastime Amusment/Entertainment) and was the largest cinema organ in Charleston, S.C. until Sottile had a 3/15 Moller (also in divided chambers) installed at the Garden Theatre on King Street (converted to Urban Outfitters from a live theatre in the early 2000s). The instrument was installed in two chambers, angled walls which book end the proscenium arch. From records of an interview with the organist 30-40 years ago the organ was connected to a Reproduco (or Operator's Piano Co) Reproducing Piano (likely in the orchestra pit next to the console). In the 1950s when the Gloria Theatre was rebuilt (and the heavy curtains and soundboard covered the murals) the organ was removed and wound up at St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church on St. Philip's Street, according to an private letter to a friend from Pastime Amusement's H.G. Meyer, Jr. It was eventually replaced replaced by an Allen Organ that since has been replaced, however the crew that did the job tell me that some of the original pipes have been left as decoration, and a few cinema style stoptabs were still in place after the cinema organ was replaced (but no idea if they still remain after the replacement was replaced with an Allen Organ). The Gloria Theatre is of course now the College of Charleston's Sottile Theatre, and has recently been cosmetically restored, but the chambers remain organless (I am told with lighting controls in one of them), and the State of South Carolina without a single restored cinema organ. Pastime's Gloria, Garden, and Riviera (very late) all had organs, made by Moller, with 3 manuals and 12-15 ranks. -Jacob Woods
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