Organ Stop Pizza, Mesa AZ.

Organ Stop Pizza is a place in Mesa AZ. I grew up in Mesa and this was the place that I went for almost everyone of my birthdays growing up (there was no Chuck-E-Cheese). We came on other occasions too as the ambiance is great and admission is free. The pizza is pretty good too but maybe a smidge more expensive than some of the other pizza options out there (large 14" 1 topping pizza is $15.79).

The main attraction is a Wurlitzer Theater Pipe Organ, that was built back in the day of silent pictures when theaters had an organist play the background music for movies. This one though has been tricked out and put on steroids. It has an insane amount of pipes and is also connected to drums, xylophones, pianos, woodwinds, trumpets, and too many special effects to name.

When we walked in my kids caught a glimps of the organ an the music that was playing wasn't too familiar right away and my son later said he was expecting to hear opera music all night. Thankfully the selections ended up being mostly music my kids knew with music from Star Wars, musicals, and Disney movies. They had request cards that we tried to get my kids to fill out for requests but they didn't know what to put down until they started hearing some of the other songs played, but as luck would have it, once they got the hang of it they were excited when something they requested came up in the stack. We were also surprised when some music that you wouldn't associate with a pipe organ was played like Bohemian Rapsody by Queen, and Play That Funky Music by Wild Cherry.

We've been there twice now on this trip and will probably go again as we still have a couple of months in the area. Here are a few YouTube video links, but they aren't mine