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Shakeys Pizza, Novato, CA January, 1965, 24 years old, just off the boat from over 4 years overseas in the Far East and Southeast Asia.
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Pizza Hut

Wabash, Indiana about 1978. I was about 12 or 13 yrs old.

Man I remember Mom making them at home from scratch long before I got a store bought version

I don't remember my 1st , must not of been very good.


Mike

Store bought version was in the mid 60's at Pizza Hut

probably Jim Dandy's pizza joint, but can't be sure as food most of the time is not memorable enough for me to note it.


there's some other firsts however that I'll always remember

Ain't that the truth!

My mom would make it and home and it was great. On special occasions we would get to got Aurelio's Pizza when it was in an old shop in Homewood IL, circa 72.(I was 8) http://aureliospizza.com

A few years ago we went back for the first time since we moved in 1980 and it was every bit as good as I remember. It still defines pizza for me.

I remember being kinda surprised that there were actually stores in big cities that made pizza. Ours were made from a kit that came in a little yellow box, Jeno's if I recall correctly. We loved em and they were often requested for birthdays.

Bill's Pizza Place in Stevens Point, WI around September 1962. I think I have the name correct, and I have to say it was love at first bite.

Roma's

Wafer-thin, a wisp of sauce, sprinkle of cheese, a hint of pepperoni (or sausage), the only vegetables were on the cover's picture - and they were great.

My Mom had a friend who worked for Roma's, and would supply us with broken, or damged "pies". I didn't know there were pizzas with inch-thick ingredients 'til I was older, and on my own.

My mom made her pizza from a Chef-BOY-AR DEE kit. Don't remember the first time I ate pizza at a restaurant.

1954 at age 7 at Festina's on S. Virginia Ave. Reno NV. It was owned and run by an old local Italian family, and the food was fantastic.

Back in the fifties my mom used to make 'em with those "do it yourself" things where you got all the needed stuff in one package and made it at home. First one I ever remember from a pizza shop was in 1962 or 63 when we travelled about 50 miles to the V.A. hospital in Batavia NY to visit a great uncle who was a WWI veteran and had a minor operation. Dad took us to Pontillo's Pizza and it was great. By the later 60's IIRC Pontillo's had expanded to the Rochester area where I grew up and while they were still good; by that time they had a lot of competition.

Around 1968 at Pasquale's Pizza on Woodward Ave. in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, just south of the round bank and just around the corner from Skateland skating rink.

Pretty soon after that we also discovered the Chef Boy-Ar-Dee pizza kits and we'd add goodies like mushrooms, black olives, bacon, sausage and such to them.

This and Lime Kool-Aid at every birthday party....

Pizza Hut, fall of 1976, in college.... boy, what a revelation to a kid from the hills of Arkansas!

Pittsburgh Pa 1960

My first, too . . . without the lime Kool-Aid, though. The powdered parmesan in those boxes was nasty ! ! !

Somewhere back in the mid- to late fifties, Dad, Mom, and I went down to the Southside Cafe for supper. Dad looked at the menu, asked what this "Pizza Pie" was (I imagine it was frozen) and to the complete and total shock of Mom, did something adventuresome and risky by ordering it. As I recall, he was less than impressed. I imagine that I had a taste, but I can't recall anything about the taste.