Hi, I'm brand new to these forums, and am I glad I found this thread!
Until a month ago, I was the organist at Angelino's Restaurant in San Jose, CA. Open since 1972, the eatery featured a surprisingly lush 3/13 Wurlitzer/Hybrid organ. I started there 1985, and was the last regular organist from 2001 'til it closed almost a month ago. The "pizza pipe organ" is now extinct on the West Coast.
Here in San Jose, the fully restored Fox California Theatre has been featuring the newly-installed 4/22 WurliTzer. It's a hybrid organ, although assembled from exclusively Wurlitzer components by a buddy of mine named Ed Stout. The four manual console came from the Uptown Theatre in Chicago! I've listened to the organ in this wide, tall, slightly shallow, and accoustically live auditorium from several postions in the orchestra and balcony, and I gotta tell ya: they don't come much better than this. Just a gorgeous, full on, hit you on in the face Worlitzer sound.
There's also the organ belonging to Nor-Cal ATOS, at the Berkeley Community Theatre, 4/40 Wuritzer, 2 consoles, one from the Toledo Paramount, the organ's nucleus, and the master console is from the Center Theatre in NY, NY. I've recorded this organ, and it's definitely an experience to perform on one of those humoungous "Fox Special" scale consoles.
The Castro Theatre in SF has an exceptionally fine Wurlitzer (4/21), as does the Paramount in Oakland (4/26 Wurlitzer). Speaking of Oakland, I used to be the sub organist at the Grand Lake theatre, under house organist Jim Riggs, in 1987-88. This is another fine 3 manual Wulitzer-hybrid in a real, neighborhood theatre.
I hope this gives a quick "taste" of the Bay Area Theatre Organ scene.
Dean