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Article: Is there a hopeful note for grand old pipe organ?
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- Daily Breeze
- Article date:
- June 8, 2003
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HARBOR GATEWAY:
Curator dreams of restoring huge Wurlitzer to its former glory.
y By Traci Jai Isaacs
The bricks are crumbling and cobwebs stretch from the dark corners
of a chamber that houses the "World's Mightiest Pipe Organ." Inside,
the air smells like damp aged wood.
"You can see, we don't open these doors often," said Wayne
Brickey, a 43-year grounds superintendent at the Roosevelt Mortuary
and Memorial Park off Vermont Avenue in the Harbor Gateway, the
resting place for the famed pipe organ, known as the Roosevelt.
He feels around in the dark and flips on a low-watt bulb to expose
a stack of metal pipes ceiling high.
In the instrument's heyday some 80 years ago, it was played for ...