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Updated through online information from Charles Eberline [December 15, 2025]: Johnston is attested as the builder in The Diapason, December 1915, 7: The Johnston Organ Company has completed the installation of an organ in the court of the Hotel Fresno at Fresno, Cal., and P. Gordon Bretland gave an informal recital on it Oct. 27. The organ has sixteen speaking stops and was built for the California building at the Panama-Pacific Exposition, but was not finished in time and was purchased by the hotel owner. The Diapason also confirms the 1915 date. Junchen notes "Johnston nameplate" in his listing of the organ in his Robert-Morton chapter.
Information from Encyclopedia of the American Theatre Organ, Vol. II by David L. Junchen (Pasadena: Showcase Publications, 1989). Had Johnston nameplate.
Identified through on-line information from Thomas L. DeLay. -- Organ was removed in 1923 and replaced with a 2m 5r Wurlitzer. The Johnston organ was reinstalled in the Californian Hotel on Van Ness Ave. Later removed and sent to a church in Selma, CA. Presumed to be junked.
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