•Hi Group, As Matthew said, "Ah yes Frank McCullough." I first got in contact with Matthew Caulfield some twenty or thirty years ago when I started to catalog all Wurlitzer Style 150 Military Band Organ rolls. We have been exchanging information ever since. After help from the MMD in completing the ...

•Quite a few people can tell stories of their exchanges with the mysterious Mr. McCullough. My correspondence with him was before the advent of email. He was in Asbury Park, N.J. My recollection is that he had no antipathy toward collectors, enjoying the hospitality of a number of them. Still, my or...

•The story about Wurlitzer using a recording keyboard to make band organ rolls was just another of Frank McCullough's fabrications, along with Farny Wurlitzer's non-existent daughter, 153 organ, and roll collection. The Wurlitzer Company never used a recording keyboard or automatic marking machine f...

•Does anyone on MMD know the whereabouts of Rhoda Krasner and what she is doing today? I believe she was at one time connected with the carousel and band organ in St. Catherines, Ontario, Canada. I looked in the MMD archives, but her name doesn't appear either as author or subject. Another person ne...

•I am sad to report that long-time Coney Island carousel operator and owner of the West 12th Street kiddie amusements, Jimmy McCullough, has passed away. He was a descendent of both the Tilyou and the Stubbman families. Mr. McCullough was co-owner of the B&B Carousell along with Mike Saltzstein. I h...

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•I just heard that Mike Saltzstein died on July 3rd in his sleep at the age of 55. Since the age of 20, his life has been merry-go-round operation, and until the day of his death he operated the B&B Carousel in Coney Island. B&B stood for original owners, Bishop & Breinstein. Just weeks before Mr. S...

•This comes a little late for Jeff Bridges' Coney Island adventure, but it would be very illuminating if, before he embarks, he could read the great Coney Island history by Charles Denson, "Coney Island, Lost and Found." It is a lavishly illustrated paperback of 294 pages, published by Ten Speed Pre...

•Matthew, After reading your post on MMD regarding transposed notes, I decided to go to your online catalog and check the tunes on roll no. 6690, since you said it was Wurlitzer's last 165 roll. It was interesting to see that the first tune, "My Dreams Are Getting Better All The Time," is credited t...

•A posting on the board of Coney Island USA suggests that the B&B Carousell on Surf Avenue, which is home to a beautiful Bruder Elite Apollo/BAB organ, is to be auctioned, possibly as early as today. Since it is a very last minute rumor, there's a lot of panic afoot. If true, it would appear that th...

•I have examined several very early (ca. 1915-1921) Wurlitzer band organ roll masters and many late ones (1940-1967). There is no evidence suggesting that anything like a "recording organ" or a device similar to the ingenious arranging piano that J. Lawrence Cook used at the QRS factory was ever use...

•The date given for the auction of the B&B Carousell, posted on the MMD on 19 August, was incorrect. The date given was Aug. 15th, but the actual auction date is Wednesday, August 10th, at 2:OO P.M. at the carousel site at Surf Avenue at West 12th St. Many groups have been working hard to save this ...

•The following update is from Marvin Sylvor, Spokesperson for City Carousel Conservancy, Inc., posted at http://www.carousels.com/ "The city [New York] has made a most generous offer for the B&B. Guernsey [the auction house] is still fighting the offer and insisting to the McCulloughs that they shou...

•The B&B Carousell (spelled correctly) located in Coney Island that was slated for auction on Wednesday, August 10, 200,5 has been saved intact. At an 11 AM news conference New York City, Mayor Bloomberg announced that the City of New York purchased the Carousell for 1.8 million dollars. It will be ...

•Dear Lisa, I can give you a couple of names of people who are _very_ interested in that organ and are now worried about what will happen to it. But first let me correct two points. Be sure when referring to the carousel to spell the name "B&B Carousell" (with two L's). That was its unique spelling...

•* Walter Johannes Wilhelm Wurl (May 13, 1881-Jan. 21, 1951) -- born and died in Martinsville/North Tonawanda, New York; wife: Ella (Eleanor Henriette Louise Schulz) Wurl (1881-1975). Foreman in Wurlitzer's Music Dept., known there simply as "Walter Wurl." Noted on roll masters in Herschell Carrouse...