• Five things you didn’t know about the famous Spreckles Pipe Organ,Debbie L. Sklar • Times of San Diego

    Five things you didn’t know about the famous Spreckles Pipe Organ

    23 young women with drums and marimbas on stage at Spreckel’s Organ Pavilion; drums are labeled: “BEECHNUT GUM”, photo labeled: “AMERICA’S EXPOSITION / SAN DIEGO – CALIFORNIA / MAY 29th – NOV 11th, 1935″. Eighteen signatures on back: Maxine Richards, Ella, Clotilda Clearw[illegible], Irene Sanderson

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  • Review: More than bangers, ‘Six’ a stellar story in musical form,Drew Sitton • Times of San Diego

    Review: More than bangers, ‘Six’ a stellar story in musical form

    DOWNTOWN – “Six” has a soundtrack to die for. I knew that going in to see the popular musical playing at the Civic Theatre this week. “Don’t Lose Ur Head” has been one of my favorite sing-in-the-shower bangers for the last couple years (Carlina Parker, who played Anne Boleyn for the Tuesday performa

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  • Flashback: Dec. 31, 1914 — The night San Diego heard its first organ music,Debbie L. Sklar • Times of San Diego

    Flashback: Dec. 31, 1914 — The night San Diego heard its first organ music

    Concert at the Spreckels Organ Pavilion at the 1915 Panama-California Exposition in Balboa Park, San Diego, Wikipedia On Dec. 31, 1914, San Diego welcomed a gift that would resonate for generations: the Spreckels Organ Pavilion in Balboa Park. The pavilion, donated by the Spreckels brothers, John D.

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