The story of Edison Street Events (formally known as the Organ Loft) is the story of the late Lawrence Bray. He was dedicated to the restoration and preservation of the Theatre Pipe Organ.

Lawrence’s passion for pipe organs began as a young man, when he heard and met George Wright and Gaylord Carter performing on the Wurlitzer at the San Francisco Fox Theatre.

Intrigued with the sound of the organ, he decided he would search for old theatre organs in Utah. His first acquisition was the Utah Theatre’s Robert Morton in 1946, which he installed in his uncle’s chicken coop in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Later additions included the organs from Salt Lake City’s Gem Theatre and Ogden’s Egyptian Theatre. These additions required the continual remodeling and enlargement of the chicken coop until 1956, when he sold the majority of the installation and purchased the 3 manual-19 rank Wurlitzer with two consoles from the New York Staten Island Paramount.

Lawrence combined the two consoles to build today’s Colossus five keyboard console with 378 stop tabs, which controls today’s 2,400 highly unified pipes.

Edison Street Events is the home of a one-of-a-kind historical treasure thanks to the dream of Lawrence Bray and the continuation of the operation by his nephew, Larry Bray.