I’ve been looking up Arizona ephemera recently and one of the things I crossed paths with was Organ Stop Pizza in Mesa. Apparently, you needed gimmicks to get people to go get pizza (isn’t good food enough?) so enter the Mighty Wurlitzer which apparently has superseded the pizza as the star attraction.
Meanwhile, I was plowing through some mp3 blogs and ran across House Plant Picture Studio, who (when they aren’t searching for the grave of Karen Carpenter) took the time out to post some mp3s from the 70s-era Organ Stop Pizza album (scroll down).
Wow, seeing that sign brings back memories. Since I grew up in nearby Tempe, my family used to go there at least once a month. The pizza wasn’t good, but the organ was fantastic … and LOUD. The organ player took requests. I know this because he played the Star Wars theme for me once!