Entry No. 55 — the Los Angeles file — filed under: ritual-music

Old Town Music Hall Silent Films with the Mighty Wurlitzer

Inside a 188-seat 1921 theater, two musicians installed a 1925 Wurlitzer theater pipe organ rescued from a Long Beach movie palace, and it has been kept alive ever since. The instrument has more than 2,600 pipes plus xylophone, marimba, piano, drums and cymbals all played from a single four-keyboard console. Evening programs pair silent-film classics with live organ accompaniment exactly as audiences heard them a century ago, alongside ragtime and jazz sing-alongs.

The move: Catch an evening silent-film screening and let the live pipe organ score the whole movie in front of you.

📍 Before you go Open weekends, roughly Saturday and Sunday; a single screen with limited seats, so check the schedule and buy ahead. Evening shows are the after-dark draw.

• 📍 El Segundo
• 💸 $
• ⚡ Low-key
• 🌗 Outdoors

Where: 140 Richmond St, El Segundo, CA 90245

Hours: Added 2026-06-23 — confirm current hours before you go.

⚠ Seasonal or scheduled — always check before you go.

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Proof: source 1 · source 2 · source 3 · source 4

last checked: 2026-06-23