Ed Sharpe
Welcome to construction, engineering and one heck of a mess! ( it will be over in a month)< or so I thought!>!
(Warren
Plays Plumber)
Conversion of bathroom #2 to display case once the glass is on the front, this case will be 7 feet wide by 3.5 feet deep by 8 feet tall inside. This became the RCA history display!
Walk in closet that had small door had the wall removed and a glass door installed thus making a large glass front display case that is 8 foot wide, 4 feet deep and 8 feet high inside. This became the computer display.
As you can see there is also a closet next to the one we have glassed in that can use a nice glass door on it also.
At the moment this had the door put back on it. It will become the history of microscopy display.
What a mess! Once this is cleaned up floor cases will have artifacts in them. Note the bookcases against the far wall, these bookcases will at some point be moved out and glass cases will be installed in the future, meanwhile these cases hold science books that are for sale.
Julieann Sharpe Sweeps the debris out as fast as we tear the old walls down!
Warren sets the frame for the countermeasures display case. this
case is 12 feet long consists of an 8 foot sliding glass door plus another
4 foor section that does not move.
Window was bricked and steeled in for security
Here is an example of part of the regency transistor radio display. This case is only 10 inches deep and a fixed panel from a 6 foot sliding glass door gets put on. You try to get everything right the first time you set the display up inside, as it is a tough job to de-secure the glass panel to get back in!
Here is the Motorola Display cabinet. it is 2 feet deep, 6' 8'' tall and 45
inches wide. We need neat smallish Motorola
items to go in here. Note the open area is the case glass fixed panel has
not yet been attached to the case. This case is across from the regency display
in that small hall and next to the Countermeasures display. Wanted it that was
as some of the countermeasures equip was made by Galvin Mfd. which became
Motorola.
Scrubbing up a rack for a BC-348. Have gone through gallons of 409 cleaning the
artifacts up.....
View of hallway before wall case built. Consider this a 'virtual fire inspection! How clean how empty!
One day the condenser fan motor died....soooooo....
A friend lent us this floor fan and it held things stable
until we replaced the entire system,.... The old Lenox unit had
served the building since the early 70's!
Here is the old Lenox heater/blower after removal... messy full of rust!
Hard to believe this storage area could be reorganized and shelving installed all without moving any of it outside... we did it.... very slowly!
Barbary Coast
Restaurant - FotoPlayer
Portland, Oregon
Organ installation timeframe: 1963 -
Back to the Theatre Organ
History: Restaurants page
A glimpse of the Barbary Coast fotoplayer from an album cover, c.1965
Note: hinged lids on the left and right cabinets
The Barbary Coast restaurant/bar may have been the first organ-equipped eatery
in the Pacific Northwest. In 1963, owner Harvey Dick rescued a 1912 Fotoplayer
from the Arcade Theatre in Hoquiam, Washington and installed it at the
restaurant.
The only information available on this instrument is from the LP record jacket
(a souvenir most likely sold at the Barbary Coast gift shop):
Sounds of the Barbary Coast Frank Elliott at the Fotoplayer Hoyt Recording
Company, Portland OR Stereo LP.
This LP included the tracks: Twelfth Street Rag; Only a Bird in A Gilded Cage;
Yes, We Have No Bananas; Thunder and Blazes; William Tell Overture; Nola; I Wish
I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate; Havah Nagila; Casey Jones; Chinatown, My
Chinatown; The Perils of Pauline; Bill Bailey; Hi-Lili Hi-Lo; Can Can; Beer
Barrel Polka. Included are: Reed Organ; Pipe Organ; Player Piano; Orchestra
Bells; Snare Drum; Bass Drum; Chinese Gong; Crash Cymbal; Hi-Hat Cymbal; Train
Whistle; Fire Siren; Klaxon; Diesel Horn; Castanets; Wood Block; Horse's Hooves;
Tambourine; Triangle; Whipcrack; Sleighbells; Cowbell; Doorbell; Bicycle Bell;
Thunder Roll; Five Bulb Horns; Pistol Shot.
