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Blue Mouse Theatre - 2/10 Wurlitzer, Style 210
Seattle, Washington
1421 5th Ave.
Organ installation timeframe: 1920 - 1957
 
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Blue Mouse console
 
The Blue Mouse Theatre originally had a Style 210 Wurlitzer (opus #362) shipped from the factory in October 1920. Records shows that in 1927, "Buss" McClelland was staff organist and Billy Bilger played swing-shift.
 
In 1957, Bob Hansen of Bellevue, Washington purchased the instrument and installed it in his home.
 
In 1973, the instrument was sold to Jack & Mary Lou Becvar
who have installed it in their home in Kent, Washington south of Seattle.
 
The original two-manual console has recently been sold to St. Davids Church in Shelton where it will control a 2/6 Morton - Balcom & Vaughan instrument there.
 
The original blower for this instrument in now owned by
Jeff Fox of Bellingham.
 
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Blue Mouse and Music Box Theatre marquees at night. Coliseum and Orpheum signage visable in the distance.
 
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Blue Mouse "Fire Brigade" promo for the 1922 film "3rd Alarm."
 
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Ad from the Seattle Post Intelligencer, c. 1925. Bobbed Hair starting Marie Prevost and Kenneth Harlan |
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