Oh my goodness! The memories you have brought back! I grew up in the late 50's and 60's too. I think the first pizza I had was my mom's homemade pizza--I still have the recipe in her handwriting. The crust was biscuit-like: flour, baking powder, oil, salt and milk. She made a sauce from tomato paste, the meat was bulk breakfast sausage, and we grated up a chunk of mozarella. She had a grater that was round and fitted inside another thing that held the cheese against the grater. You just turned the crank and grated cheese came out the middle of the grater. We used to fight over who got to grate the cheese (until we got older anyway). The first time I made pizza for my husband, I used Mom's recipe--he didn't like it, b/c he liked yeast crust. We ate homemade pizza every Saturday night early in our marriage and when our kids were growing up, though I made four pizzas at a time, and froze some so that I didn't have to start from scratch each week. The first restaurant pizza I ate was a Mama Mia's, which was the place to hang out when I was in high school. The pizza there was thin crust and yeast-based. There was a pizza place in Estes Park, CO, that made a crust I tried hard to replicate, but never could quite get it right. It tasted both yeasty and biscuit-y. I had thought that it included cornmeal, but years later realized that the crunchiness I liked was probably semolina. The golden years of television! I remember Betty Furness--I wondered why that name sounded so familiar when I first read it, but the video answered that question! And the Wonderful World of DIsney! Our next door neighbors had the first color TV in the neighborhood, and we could see it from our kitchen window over the sink. They watched Disney too, so my sister and I would do dishes with our family TV on for sound, and watch it through the window on the color TV next door! Sometimes our neighbors would wave at us during a commercial. :-)

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