Broadway Theatre - 2/8 Kimball
Vancouver, B.C.
707 W. Broadway
Organ installation timeframe: 1916 -
 
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Broadway Theatre, c.1917. Image courtesy Vancouver Public Library, public domain
 
Interestingly, a pipe organ installation at the Broadway Theatre is not listed in any of the pipe organ databases. This includes the PSTOS Bill Bunch/Eugene Nye records, Junchen opus lists, and the Organ Historical Society database. One possible explanation is that the Broadway's organ was not an original installation; it was relocated from Nanaimo's Bijou Theatre as described in the following news item appearing in The Moving Picture World in 1916:
 

News item in The Moving Picture World September 16, 1916, page 1873
 
The following feature article appeared in The Moving Picture World November 11 1916. Note reference to "large pipe organ" in the third paragrah. The article also make reference to a prior Broadway Theatre located "one block" away.
 

Feature article about the Broadway Theatre's opening from The Moving Picture World November 11 1916. Click for a larger version of the image.
 

News item in Exhibitors Trade Review (later known as Motion Picture Daily) December 3, 1921 (p778) states that Julian Haywood was an organist at the Broadway Theatre in 1921.
 
Broadway Theatre, c.1930. Image courtesy Vancouver Public Library, public domain
 

The Broadway Theatre's Broadway News, September 17, 1917