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The Rudolph Wurlitzer Co. (1926)

Wharf Theatre
21 Alvarado Street
Monterey, CA

Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)


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Notes

2015-04-08 - "Style 135B"<BR> Factory date: February 11, 1926 -Database Manager

2017-05-04 - Updated by Thomas L. DeLay, naming this as the source of information: Monterey newspaper of 1924.<br> This theatre was not called the "Wharf" Theatre. The theatre name was originally the Strand Theatre in the downtown Elks Lodge. The theatre originally had some sort of photoplayer. In 1924 the theatre underwent a remodel, the photoplayer in the pit was discarded and the Wurlitzer was installed on a large platform at the rear of the stage and spoke through the proscenium opening. I saw the remains of the rear stage chamber platform and the hole in the concrete wall where an 8" wind duct clearly had come through. The theatre underwent a most unsympathetic remodel after WW II and again in the 1970s. It is not known what became of the organ. The theatre is now repurposed and is a brew pub. One of the rear entrances uses the original rear stage entrance that was used as access to the organ chamber/swell-box. -Database Manager


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