ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
From: Woody Wise, May 2004
PRESS RELEASE
JONAS NORDWALL TO DEDICATE LARGE CALIFORNIA WURLITZER
Saturday night, July 24, at 7:30 pm, Jonas Nordwall will dedicate in a pops concert
the 4/22 Wurlitzer recently installed in the newly refurbished Fox Theatre in Visalia, California.
The organ was donated to Friends of the Fox, a local non-profit organization,
by Ruth Villemin Dresser who has recently moved to Visalia from Malibu, California,
where the instrument was used for many years to present well known theatre organists
for the community and her friends. With her move to Visalia she wanted to continue with
her tradition of providing theatre organ music for as many people as possible.
Her Los Angeles organ technicians, Ken Kukuk and Ed Burnside, have traveled to Visalia
for the past year making possible the organ transplant.
The Fox is an atmospheric theatre of Moorish and Spanish design and seats 1200.