It's a shame this place is now abandoned and falling into ruin, it's worthy of being fixed back up and used. Beautiful.

I still have a working reel-to-reel machine. That's likely an audio reel, though, as video tape is normally a lot wider.

I'm stating the obvious here, but man, this is a beautiful shot, Motts!

Beyond that door lies.... Narnia

Oh man, this one is scary, creepy, sad, and very beautiful all in one!

Motts, that's a beautiful, but very creepy shot.

I wonder if the Maxon company that made that control has any connection with the company called Maxon that makes distortion pedals for guitars...... interesting, at least to a guitar player like myself.

I think Mamils is right, those aren't switches on the top, they're drawbars which are typical of a Hammond.

Wow, those lights are worth some serious money. It looks to be in working order, too.

Looks like either Bogen or Argos speakers on the walls between the stage opening and the grate above the doors, they look to be boxes with 12 six or 8 inch speakers each in them. These are pretty typical for a sound system from that time period. Probably powered by a 15 to 35 watt 70-volt commercial amplifier. Not anything remotely like what would be used in a theater today.

"I should add when Jeremy was born, my twins were 5 years old and my oldest was 7, so it was a little crazy keeping up with 4 small children. I managed though, and wouldn't trade the experiences for the world."

Wow. Much respect to you, Paulina. I'm not sure if I could've handled that.

I was a broadcasting major in college and I can definitely say that this is NOT the back end of a tv camera. There are 4 positions on the leftmost switch on the bottom row that allow for four different views, the lower two being monitor large and monitor small. What the other two positions are, I cannot tell, even when adjusting the photo around in photoshop just to see. TV broadcasting cameras do not show you anything in the viewfinder other than what you're sending to the switcher unit, though, so I can assure you it's not part of a camera.

The Hammond B-3 doesn't have built-in speakers as this one does, they usually are accompanied by a Leslie speaker cabinet for this reason. Also, the cabinet for the B-3 is more boxey looking than this one, and a B-3 has drawbars, which this one does not have. This looks more like a home-type organ that was popular in the 60's/70's. I own a music instrument store and I have people come in all the time trying to sell me organs of this type, but with electronic keyboards being popular these days, the market for home organs is now almost nonexistant.

Actually, you can see whatever type of paint they put on it peeling off in a spot toward the top of the photo.

Executone was a telephone equipment manufacturer, that is an old switchboard unit for a phone system.

Are those a bunch of ceiling tiles that are missing or is that some sort of rigging for flying speakers from? This is a pretty nice looking theater for being in a hospital...