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Boardwalk in Santa Cruz, California
By Tom DeLay

I was recently at the Boardwalk in Santa Cruz, California.  Of course,
in one incarnation or another, the muffled Ruth Band Organ is still
playing behind a glass wall in the carousel area.

What was more interesting were the historic photos of the Boardwalk
Arcade.  There was a rather typical Welte "sunburst" orchestrion
installed in the Arcade.  The orchestrion lasted but two years and was
destroyed in a fire circa 1906.  In the photo, the orchestrion
resembled greatly the instrument still in the Zaharakos (spelling?)
Ice Cream Parlor in Columbus, Indiana (which we saw and played last
summer).

Tom DeLay


(Message sent Sat 22 Jun 2002, 05:38:54 GMT, from time zone GMT-0700.)

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