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Author Topic: Pipe Organ Concert At Peery's Egyptian Theater Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 11-18-2007 04:38 PM                     Walt Strony will play the 3/23 Wurlitzer at Perry's Egyptian in Ogden, Utaw on Saturday November 24th at 7:30 PM. If any of you are in this area this organ is very definately worth hearing. The acoustics in the Egyptian are great for pipe organ!! Tickets are 10 bucks FACTS ABOUT PEERY’S EGYPTIAN THEATER (From the Egyptian Web Site) A superbly restored Peery’s Egyptian reopened January 17, 1997 as a performing arts/movie theatre. Peery’s new 1,200-seat show house was built entirely of poured, reinforced concrete... in 1923! After an absence of decades, the original Wurlitzer theatre pipe organ once again fills the Egyptian with music, making its debut in July of 2004. -- Listed on the National Register of Historic Sites (1978) -- Listed on the Ogden City Register of Historic Sites (1982) -- One of possibly as few as 42 Egyptian-design theatres constructed in the United States (Theatre Historical Society of America estimate) -- One of an estimated dozen Egyptian-style theatres of movie palace status remaining in the United States -- Thought to be one of only two Egyptian-style “atmospheric” theatres (with an operating auditorium “sky” dotted with twinkling stars) in the nation -- Probably the only “atmospheric” theatre of any design in the Intermountain region --Utah’s only existing bona fide movie palace www.peerysegyptiantheater.com  |  IP: Logged Bob Koch Expert Film Handler Posts: 183 From: williams ca Registered: Nov 2001 posted 11-19-2007 02:11 PM                     Mark; I serviced this in 1950. It had a Western Electric Wide Range sound system with the 3 way speaker system; Jensen woofers which sat on the floor, 555 mid-range,hung with chains and 597 hf, looked like the transmitter on a desk telephone. The whatever tons of poured concrete that made it fireproof really became important when sound came in.Toughest house I ever had.If you did`nt understand a line of dialog at first, you could always check it again as it rattled around three or four times.  |  IP: Logged

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