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[QUOTE="LasVegasYank, post: 2550386, member: 7711"]
A delicious thread and a look back for me as I was born in New Haven and had two uncles in the business.  Both specialized in the thin crust pie so famous for the area.

My mother's brother owned Nicky's on Dixwell Avenue in Hamden, a full-service restaurant with a bar and my mother's brother-in-law owned Tolli's, more of a traditional pizza/sub joint  (still in business, as far as I know) in East Haven.

Tony Tolli and his wife Grace had a pizza joint at Savin Rock, an amusement park in West Haven, where he started making his fortune.  His trick was to open the windows on warm Spring and Summer nights which allowed the breezes to bring the aroma of his pizza's to the main concourse of the park.  He had a line most of the time waiting to get a slice or two.  His specialty was what he called a plain tomato pie.  Thin crust, sauce, herbs, Parmaggiano Reggiano cheese and a light dressing of olive oil.

Nicky put in one of the first commercial microwave ovens in the state which allowed him to do some production cooking of his Italian specialties only requiring a quick re-heat to serve.  Because of the leakage of microwaves from the earliest ovens, you had to have an FCC license to operate one.

I miss them both and the old days in general.
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