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A serious water shortage

Preserve the City Auditorium

You can hear the lush music from the Wurlitzer theater pipe organ before you ever lay eyes upon it. Once you do encounter the magnificent console hidden inside the Immanuel Organ Gym off Pikes Peak Avenue, you can see why Dave Weesner is hooked. The tall, lanky architect sits behind the pristine 350-pound organ, which rests on a 200-pound platform that’s on casters so it can be rolled into the kitchen when basketball games take over the gym. He dives into one of his favorite genres of music �...