I remember my mom making some of those earlier versions (she ran the lunch program at the Mount Lebanon School in West Lebanon in the 1950s—somehow I don't think they served pizza but I could be wrong). I also remember when my wife and I were first married (1961) we made it with the Boyardee kits. Commercially, I remember a hawker going up the stairs of Maxcy (yes, at Brown!) yelling "Hot Peetz". It was from a place that I recall being something like Ivatzio's but a search of the dozens of Providence pizza vendors shows no name like this today. Nice article.

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