Frontier Foodie: August 12, 2015 - Organ Stop Pizza

Thursday, August 13, 2015

August 12, 2015 - Organ Stop Pizza - Mesa, Arizona

I visited on August 12, 2015 for the very first time with Sandy Wilts and Irma Heasley. Sandy, Irma and I shared The P.S.M. – cheese, pepperoni, sausage and mushroom pizza…Sandy had wine…Irma ordered a soft drink and I ordered a pint of Bud Light.

The music began about 5:30 p.m. with Lew Williams on the Mighty Wurlitzer…the largest Wurlitzer in the world. He played a lot of my old favorites…Chattanooga Choo Choo…Pink Panther….Sentimental Journey…Alley Cat…Stars and Stripes Forever…and on and on…

This is a must visit for every person who comes to stay with me.

The Organ Stop’s Wurlitzer theatre organ was built for the Denver Theatre and was installed in 1927. Organ Stop Pizza purchased it in early 1970s and undertook the mammoth task of rebuilding the instrument. Several additions were made to the instrument by acquiring parts from other ill fated Wurlitzers. The resulting 23 rank organ was installed in the original Organ Stop Pizza facility in 1975.

Over the years Organ Stop Pizza has enlarged and improved this organ as an ongoing project. The resulting instrument boasts 78 ranks, 17 tuned percussions and innumerable traps and effects and is the largest Wurlitzer in the world.

There is a game room for the children in your party. I think though that any children will enjoy looking at how everything works and listening to the songs.