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Y'know, sink, I've misunderestimated you all these years.

A Republican who appreciates the glorious sounds that only a pipe organ can produce can't be all bad. I take back everything I said about you behind your back.

Unfortunately, your AADD seems to be as much a hindrance to your enjoyment of music as it has proven too often to be when discussing various politicians -- especially people you don't agree with.

That is, you tend to make things up when your memory fails you. A little attention to facts will help, even though your general impressions are often 75-80% correct. That's often good enough in the world of ideas, but won't suffice in the real world we live in, where a foot is not "about" 12 inches and the precision craftsmanship employed in building pipe organs requires somewhat more attention to detail than some folks on this forum are capable of.

When dealing with the King of Instruments, you can at least get the name of the builder right, right?

Take note, or take notes if you please:

The Grand Court organ in Wanamaker's (now Lord and Taylor's) was indeed the world's largest at one time, but you should know that Wicks was hardly big enough to produce such an instrument in 1904. Your second guess of Aeolian-Skinner won't do, either, as the combined company only came into being during the Depression.
The Los Angeles Art Organ Company (long since defunct) built that six-manual monster organ for the St. Louis World's Fair. John Wanamaker later expanded and enlarged it with numerous ranks including some of the most beautiful strings I've ever heard for his Philadelphia store, as you will no doubt agree if you have the Virgil Fox recording of "Come, Sweet Death" played on this intrument.
"Pneumatic" organs are air-powered, i.e., pipe organs. "Electronic" organs play through loudspeakers. Could you be confused by the "tubular pneumatic" term? The old tracker-type organs did require some athletic ability if too many stops were drawn, as the whole thing was connected mechanically to the console with an elaborate system of levers and rods to push and pull valves to let air into chests and pipes. The tubular-pheumatic system came into use a hundred years ago to make the organist's job easier, but it lacked the touch-response of the tracker types and the speed of newer electrically-powered action, and was a maintenance nightmare so nobody uses it any more, although trackers continue to be built, for what reason I can't figure. (The most recent is what some would call a Mickey Mouse organ. Aaaaarghhhh!) Money, maybe. They're about twice as costly as equivalent organs with electro-pneumatic action.
Those long-ago Gus Farney albums your mother sold at a garage sale still show up from time to time on eBay, or at your local Goodwill store if you're lucky. Warner Brothers isn't likely to reissue them on CD, but it would be nice if they'd let someone else do it so a new generation could hear Farney's playing.
The console of the organ he played, controlling the pipes at the Organ Loft in Salt Lake City, has "just" five manuals, not six.
To my knowledge, the former Chicago Stadium organ -- a Barton, not a Wurlitzer as you proclaimed in your post #55 -- is the only "theater" style console with six. (On unified instruments such as this, more manuals don't necessarily mean more ranks of pipes, since most every voice is available on any manual for versatility. Adding more manuals makes it a little difficult to arrange the stop keys for the organist's convenience. We don't all have long arms, and you can't play standing up.)
It's doubtful that light bulbs will pop if the Atlantic City Convention Hall organ ever gets cranked up to full sonic strength, although it would be a thrilling experience to hear it. Like you, I'd pay top dollar for the experience.
If high-volume rock concerts can't blow out light bulbs and shatter windows, why should a pipe organ which produces, for the most part, music and not noise?

OK, I've been pretty severe with you, sinkspur, but you left yourself open.

If you ever want to expand your collection of organ music, BTW, let me recommend the Organ Historical Society's catalogue as the most complete on-line source of both classical and theatre organ recordings, plus some books you won't find at Amazon. If you join, you get a discount on some products. I've ordered from them for years and am very satisfied with their prompt service.

You being a Texan, sink, you probably know of Fulton Lewis, Jr. He was a red-baiting radio commentator, in the employ of H. L. Hunt. His program ran all over the place, several times a day where I lived. H. L. paid for it all. That was before talk radio, and equal time rules applied.

He was also an organist. Had a Wurlitzer (I think) in his home. So did Herb Shriner, the Hoosier humorist. Small world, huh?