2024-04-30 - Console in the Century II hall (Joe Peterzak/Paul R. Marchesano)
c. 1970s - Blower (The Encyclopedia of the American Theatre Organ/Paul R. Marchesano)
2009-12-26 - Identified through on-line information from James R. Stettner. -- This was the reinstallation of the New York City Paramount Theatre organ. The console was destroyed in an arson fire on Sunday, February 25, 1968 while the organ was still in storage. A replica console was built by Balcom and Vaughan of Seattle, Washington. -Database Manager
2014-09-19 - Updated through online information from Vince Harzewski. -Database Manager
2024-06-27 - Organ builder "Balcom & Vaughn" of Seattle Washington built a new replica console for this organ in 1971 for a price of $40,000 USD. Dave Junchen, Enclyclopedia of the American Theatre Organ. Volume 1, Page 52. -Paul R. Marchesano
2024-06-27 - "In 1990, a professional team of organ technicians, principally Ed Zollman of Colorado Pipe Organ Service, Colorado Springs, Colorado, was hired to care for the organ and to plan the inevitable re-restoration. 8,000 pneumatics needed to be releathered, and a fund raising drive was inaugurated. As of April 1996, almost $68,000 has been raised, and two-and-a-half chambers completed." -- Wichita Theatre Organ Inc. web page -Paul R. Marchesano
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