Volume Two - Issue Seven
Contributing Editors
The Control Room - Richard Mogridge - Webmaster
Console Up! - Tom Hoehn, Lead Editor
The Skandia WurliTzer - Per Olof Schultz, Associate Editor
MidiTzer Boot Camp - Russ Ashworth, Associate Editor
Mighty Hauptwerk - Jim Reid, Associate Editor
Desktop Goodies - Fred Willis
NYTOS Field Reporter - Eugene Hayek
Office of Operations
Walnut Hill Productions
1233 Sims Street
Ridgecrest, California 93555
Phone - 1-727-230-2610
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Email - slowdog294@yahoo.com
DAILY NEWS
07/31/2005
Greetings from the Bone Doctor. God bless all who come here.
I want to thank the 6,000 visitors to our site this year.
~ Special Report ~
The Relocation Of Walnut Hill
Walnut Hill Productions relocated to Clearwater, Florida during the last days of July, 2005. We moved from our humble little Victorian cottage in Maryville, Tennessee to Tom Hoehn's residence in Clearwater. The move began on Thursday afternoon and was completed Friday, the next day.
Below are pictures of the truck and the Walnut Hill Manor as we were loading out. It took us a bit over three hours to load the truck. We started at around noon and finished a little after three in the afternoon.
This is the pile of cargo waiting to be loaded
onto the 24-foot U-Haul truck at Walnut Hill Manor.
This is what all that stuff looked like just before
we closed the door on the truck.
Here, we see the 24-foot U-Haul truck
pulling out of the Green Hills of East Tennessee.
After pulling out of Maryville, we headed south to Atlanta, Georgia for two stops at two fine installations. First up was a stop at Ron Carter's house to play his fine Allen GW-IV Digital Theatre Organ.
Ron Carter seated at the console of his
massive Allen GW-IV Digital Theatre Organ.
The Bone Doctor takes the bench of
Ron Carter's huge instrument. What a thrill!
Looking over Tom Hoehn's shoulders as he
skillfully takes this enormous machine through its paces.
The stop sweep of Ron Carter's wonderful
Allen GW-IV Digital Theatre Organ.
The second stop was at Bucky Reddish's house to play his Walker RTO 3/35 Digital Theatre Organ. Bucky took us in and made us feel right at home. We spent the night at Bucky's and pulled out early Friday morning to continue our journey onward to Clearwater, Florida.
Although he was very tired, the Bone Doctor
mustered enough strength to cheerfully play Bucky's gorgeous Walker RTO-335.
Tom Hoehn takes the bench and once again
displays his incredible talent on the Walker RTO-335 Digital Theatre Organ.
The stop sweep of the Walker RTO-335
Digital Theatre Organ. What a machine!
We arrived in Clearwater at 4:31 in the afternoon and proceeded to get things set up at Tom's house. We rested for a bit to take in one of Florida's beautiful sunsets and then began the arduous task of offloading the things the Doc would need to get Walnut Hill going again. Most of the cargo was taken to a climate-controlled warehouse for storage the following day.
Papa Bill, Katie and Tom standing next to the 24-foot U-Haul truck
just before the offloading began that evening.
Doc and Tom begin the process of setting up
Walnut Hill's new temporary office in Clearwater, Florida.
Here, we see Delilah, the Main Data Server
sitting in its new home at Tom's place.
This is Tom's workstation in the new office
showing the XP laptop and the 98 machine.
Katie made this plaque and hung it on the wall
in the new Walnut Hill office, welcoming Doc home.
Here, we see Katie beaming from ear to ear
obviously happy to see the Walnut Hill office running again.
We spent most of the evening getting things going. The end of the day saw four tired but very happy folks, indeed. Now that we are finally settled down in Clearwater, Walnut Hill is as Farney WurliTzer would say, "Back in bidness!"
07/14/2005
Greetings from the Bone Doctor. God bless all who come here.
I want to thank the 5,613 visitors to our site this year.
At the 50th Annual American Theatre Organ Society Convention in Pasadena, California, the president of WHOC, a proposed chapter of ATOS, Richard Mogridge of Clearwater, Florida, presented his proposal to the national board of directors. Documents will be acquired and the chapter's groundwork will be laid out in the days ahead.
Plummer Auditorium 4/36 Mighty WurliTzer Theatre Pipe Organ
Pasadena Community College, Fullerton, California
The Bone Doctor took many hundreds of digital photographs at the seven day event, held in Pasadena, California. To find out more, click here.
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