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Rollerbowl Rink - 3/10 Wurlitzer
Seattle, Washington
94th and Aurora Ave N.
Organ installation timeframe: 1946 - 1951 |
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Three manual Robert Morton console at Rollerbowl Rink
 
The Rollerbowl Rink organ was a Wurlitzer originally installed in Spokane's Liberty Theatre as opus #50, a two-manual "Special." In 1946, Balcom & Vaughan moved the organ to Rollerbowl Rink and added the Robert Morton console from a 3/11 previously installed at KSTP Radio, St. Paul Minnesota (1928).
 
The organ was eventually lost in a terrible fire at the rink on May 6, 1951. Tragically, this same fire claimed three other organs:
The Northwest Recording Studio and its organ which was located in the basement
The Ballard (Bagdad) Theatre 3/10 Wurlitzer in storage (owned by Ivan Ditmar)
Another unidentified instrument in storage
 
Rollerbowl Rink fire, May 1951:
 
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