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Shakey's Pizza and Pipe Organ

by Steve
Thursday, January 17, 2008

An anonymous OCThen reader asks if anyone remembers the Shakey's Pizza Parlor near Disneyland that had a pipe organ and a "nickelodeon guy"...
I'd sure like to find out anything pertaining to shakey" pizza parlor, particullarly the one near disneyland.. they had an amazing pipe organ and a nickelodeon guy, who I think was referred to as "mr nicelodeon" who played it all from the same console..
If you know anything, don't be shy to post a comment...

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8 Comments:

  • I dont remember the Shakeys by Disneyland having a Pipe Organ, though I know it was THE hang-out for Anaheim High Schoolers like myself. However there WAS a place called "Pipe Organ Pizza" that I remember and they had sound effects and stuff. They would play I believe it was "Misty" and they would have lightening and thiunder and the Organ would play. It was pretty neat and scary for a kid. I cant remember if it was on the little island at Tustin and 17th St or if it was in Costa Mesa

    By Anonymous ocgirl, at January 18, 2008 2:12 PM  

  • Oh, my gosh! I laughed when I read this. Back in the early 70's, my dad used to take our family to the Shakey's in Tustin and record us singing along with the player piano. I know he was hoping that one day we'd all make it big. We were the Mexican Jackson 5! LOL!

    By Blogger TRSimms, at January 22, 2008 6:32 AM  

  • I remember the Shakey's Pizza in HB I think it was Shakey's. My Dad and I would walk up to a very high bar/counter made of dark wood and he would hand me a sugar cube! I loved it.
    Donna

    By Blogger YourVirtualHelp, at January 23, 2008 4:15 PM  

  • I use to go to Shakeys in the 1970's on Lincolin and Dale in Anaheim. One whole wall was filled with metal, brass pipe organ and a fish tank! There was a guy who played very loud and entertained as you ate pizza.
    I remember he left that Shakeys to go to play at another one! The Anaheim Shakeys is long gone.
    This post really takes me back!

    By Blogger devin4805, at January 23, 2008 5:32 PM  

  • I remember that Shakeys by Disneyland and the pipe organ player..I also remember in the 60's as a teenage going in the wrong bathroom..as they didn't have them marked Men and Women..they had something like "Ye Olde this" and "Ye olde That" and was I ever embarrassed when I came out to laughter..fun times.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at February 02, 2008 9:21 AM  

  • I remember that Shakey's Pizza. That was the first place I ever had pizza, and my ideas of what pizza was and should be were formed by Shakey's Pizza. It was always exciting to go there and hear the music. I loved it. After moving away from Orange County to Indianapolis in late 1973 I didn't have pizza again for a few years.

    By Blogger Eric Hadley-Ives, at March 06, 2008 5:31 AM  

  • My uncle managed the Shakey's on Harbor by Disneyland while he was in college in the 70s, and I too remember that crazy organ thing as a little kid. The guy actually released an album with that music on red vinyl, and the cover had a pic of the very organ that in Shakey's...The same Shakey's had a pre-video skeet shooting game that you could play while you were sitting on the wooden tables.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at April 15, 2008 9:57 AM  

  • I do remember Shakeys! Their pizza was the bomb!! I used to go there at least once a week after school. I forgot what street it was on but I think it was on the way to the South Coast Plaza mall. I loved that mall lol!

    By OpenID jtoliver1975, at May 06, 2008 1:40 PM  

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