The Big Scene

Tonight we had an outing with about 40 other Workampers for dinner at Mesa's famous Organ Pizza Stop. This restaurant boasts the largest and finest Theater Organ in the world today! Its nearly 6,000 pipes, numerous percussion instruments and countless traps are masterfully presented along with electrical light accompaniment (featuring laser lights, kaleidoscope, disco ball and numerous colored spots). In the postcard photo (we forgot our camera!) you can see a xylophone mounted from the ceiling, bell chimes from the ceiling, drums mounted on the west wall, cymbals, bells, gongs, and on and on. Trumpets are at the rear of balcony out of the photo. Behind the curtain above the Wurlitzer 4 puppet cats tap dance to lively tunes. You can see the organ pipes behind the 8 louvered openings along the back wall.

The closeup photo shows the high gloss ebony and real gold leaf of the Wurlitzer "French" console. It is the largest and most elaborate design ever created by the company, containing 276 keys and 976 controls. Needless to say the organists have their hands and feet full when playing the most memorable songs - over 10,000 upon request.

As a side note, the pizza was okay.


Saturday evening First Street residents had their annual Christmas potluck and karaoke. About 114 people attending the event. Always nice to meet our neighbors up and down the street.
There are 2 more Christmas parties, one on the 22nd and one Christmas night.


This will be our first full week scheduled for work. We have been assigned to the Setup/breakdown crew along with 4 other couples and we each work 12 hours a week Thursday through Sunday. We set up the room for Thursday bingo, Friday morning Kountry Store, Friday night dance, and Saturday special events and then Sunday church services. The Large meeting room has a capacity of 1,000 and the small meeting room has a capacity of 300. It's a lot of banquet table and chairs to set up and take down but it goes really fast with 10-12 people working on it.