Winter Hours and Special Christmas Week Hours for Organ Stop Pizza
Event Category: Food Showcase
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Until mid-April 2023:
Mon – Thur 3:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Friday 3:30pm – 9:00 pm
Saturday 3:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Sunday 3:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Special Christmas and New Years hours
Friday 12/23 – 3:00 pm -9:00 pm
Saturday 12/24 – 3:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Sunday 12/25 – Closed
Monday 12/26 – 3:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Tuesday 12/27 – 3:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Wednesday 12/28 – 3:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Thursday 12/29 – 3:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Friday 12/30 – 3:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Saturday 12/31 – 3:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Sunday 1/1 – 3:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Originally opened in 1972, Organ Stop Pizza is home to the “Mighty Wurlitzer” the largest and most valuable theatre organ in the world, worth more than $6 million.
Organ Stop Pizza’s Wurlitzer theatre organ was originally built for the Denver Theatre in 1927 where it was used until the early 1930s. With the advent of the talking picture and the Depression, the organ was rarely heard and it was ultimately silenced when a fire in the auditorium caused extensive damage to the organ’s relay.
Today, Organ Stop’s instrument has been embellished from its original state and is now the largest Wurlitzer Theatre Pipe organ ever created. The console, where the musicians sit to play, is an exact replica of a Fox Special console, the largest console ever designed and built by Wurlitzer. Through the years, several rare sets of pipes have been added to the organ, including a massive set of 32-foot wood diaphones, which are visible from the front of the building.
Located in Mesa, the 18,000-square-foot Organ Stop Pizza restaurant was designed specifically to enhance the Wurlitzer’s sound. The building’s 46-foot ceilings provide unparalleled acoustics so the instrument can “speak.”
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