Today started out dark and gloomy and went downhill. It started raining a bit before noon and rained all day and into the night. Not sure how much longer it is supposed to rain, but a nice bright sunny morning would be welcome.

Yesterday afternoon we met with friends Clark and Carol and the 5 of us went to the Organ Stop Pizza palace. It opened at 3pm and if you ordered your pizza before 4pm you got a discount of $2.00. So you can be we got our order in pronto. Evelyn and I split a large Vegie pizza and drinks. The building was built around this huge Wurlitzer theater organ. It has 4 manuals, 276 keys and 798 stops and nearly 6000 pipes.

The organ was built by Wurlitzer in 1927 and installed in the Denver theater. It was used regularly until the 1930's depression hit. Theis building has 43' ceilings. the wind is provided by 4 huge turbine blowers housed in a separate part of the building. It has been added to over the years and is currently the largest Wurlitzer in the world.

It is mounted on a rotating hydraulic 8,000 lb. elevator. Many of the percussion's (such as the xylophones, glockenspiels drums, etc.) are installed in the dining room for greater audience appeal. These sections are individually lighted when they are played.

All in all, it was a truly an experience to sit there and hear a masterful gentleman play this huge organ. He could really make it talk. He played without any music and took requests and would play most anything requested. Something anyone would enjoy hearing. The pizza was quite good as well.