![]() ![]() ![]() What was happening here was the conjunction of three post-war American trends: a deep nostalgia for the late Gilded Age, the spread and deracination of pizza, and the incipient growth of franchise restaurants. (Yes, the Gay Nineties.) Literally, these were places where you could sit down, order a mediocre pizza and a pitcher of beer and be entertained by a banjo-player dressed in a striped shirt and straw boater. For example, when I was growing up in Northern California in the 1970s, there were three regional pizza chains built around a Dixieland Jazz theme: Straw Hat, Shakey's and the Gay Nineties. Sometimes, decades later, you realize that something that seemed mundane at the time is, in retrospect, really odd. Shakey’s Pizza and Ye Olde Pub, Seattle, WA, 1960.
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