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CONSOLES
Builder: Wicks Organ Co.
Position: Unknown
Design: Horseshoe
Pedalboard Type: Concave Radiating (Details Unknown)
Features:
Electrical Key ActionElectrical Stop ActionCrescendoStop Layout: Unknown
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Combination Action: Unknown
Control System: Unknown or N/A
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DETAILS
This instrument is: Not ExtantandNot Playable in this location
From the Cinema Treasures website, "The Bijou Theater opened in 1906, the first dedicated movie theater opened in Mason City. It was owned and operated by John McKee Heffner. The theater closed around 1932."
Database Manager on June 10th, 2015:
J.M. Heffner opened the first movie theatre in Mason City, the Bijou, on South Federal Avenue. After the Bijou closed, he became the manager of the Palace, which had originally been called the Regent Theatre. (Cinema Treasures web site)
Database Manager on June 10th, 2015:
Information from Encyclopedia of the American Theatre Organ, Vol. II by David L. Junchen. Sub-contracted to Wicks as their Opus 222. Listed on Wicks opus list as built for the American Photo Player Co.
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