PSTOS - Grove (Star) Theatre, Forest Grove Oregon

Grove (Star) Theatre - Photoplayer & 2/ Marr & Colton
Forest Grove, Oregon
2028 Pacific Ave.

Organ installation timeframes:

Photoplayer: 1918-1925

Marr & Colton: 1925-?

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c.1950's. Grove Theatre on left.

The Grove Theatre originally opened as the Star Theatre in 1912.

According to Jim Stettner, sometime after 1918 a style 40, 3-pipe rank American Photo Player organ was installed.

In 1925, records indicate that a two-manual Marr & Colton was installed. Current status of this instrument is unknown.

The Photo Player instrument still exists in the Richland, WA in the home of the grandson of the Star/Grove Theatre owner: Fred A. Watrous. The instrument was stored in the Watrous home in Forest Grove for many years after the Marr & Colton was installed, and before Robert Watrous acquired it. More information from Bob Watrous is available here.