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Old Times There Are Not Forgotten

Photography Film/TV posted on Nov 30, 2014
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Times have changed. Once people bought something and kept it for life. If it broke they had it repaired. Today people will wait in line for days to get the latest iPhone. If you keep a car past its three year lease there must be something wrong with you. Everyone, it seems, must have the latest, the flashiest, the most trendy. But in El Segundo, a pleasant seaside town in Los Angeles County, the past is alive. For forty-six years now, the Old Town Music Hall in El Segundo has brought theatergoers silent movies, ragtime concerts and grand organ performances. The place is a living museum. Decorated to match the silent movie theaters of the 20s, the theater has huge chandeliers, ornate molding, and thick golden curtains that slowly pull back to reveal a massive 2,600-pipe Wurlitzer organ. The theater puts on concerts constantly, and all of their silent movies are accompanied by organ music. But even if you're just going to watch Casablanca, you still get to hear the pipe organ before the show. The Hall's history goes back to 1968 with the "Two Bills" -- Bill Field and the late Bill Coffman, musicians who shared an interest in classic American music and pipe organs in . Field is 74 now. He gets around in an electric wheelchair, but he still attends every show. Before each movie, he plays songs on the pipe organ. John Reed-Torres heard about the theater from a friend a couple of years ago and has been volunteering ever since. That's John at the piano. He plays ragtime and jazz numbers for those waiting in line to enter the theater.

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durleybeachbum

11:28AM | Sun, 30 November 2014

HOW wonderful! I am a dinosaur, I still have much of my family furniture and it confuses my lodgers that it is real WOOD and therefore I don't allow mugs and cups on it as they make rings. And anyway why would you want to drink a cuppa and play the piano at the same time? Although I see John has a beer, (but then that's not my instrument!)

wysiwig

11:34AM | Sun, 30 November 2014

Actually, that's a tip jar not a beer. The tips go to support the theater.

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jayfar

12:48PM | Sun, 30 November 2014

A super set of pics Mark and a few memories will be stirred here !!

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giulband

1:30PM | Sun, 30 November 2014

Good reportage !!

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Faemike55

1:39PM | Sun, 30 November 2014

Fabulous collection of photos and cool information

Faemike55

1:40PM | Sun, 30 November 2014

I have the same computer desk that I built in 1987

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Cyve

7:25PM | Sun, 30 November 2014

Mavelous captures my friend and fantastic photos also.

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netot

7:48PM | Sun, 30 November 2014

Wow, If someday I go to L.A. I must go tthere! Here at my home everything is old, everything is 20 years old at least. And I changed my 1985 Nissansaurus until this year! Only my computer are "New". My oldest computer is from 1998, it still has Windows 98, (Best Windows ever made :) ) and the newest his two years old.

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tennesseecowgirl

7:16PM | Thu, 11 December 2014

lol at above comment !!! and great images and story!


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