Protests and Pizza

ID: 2622 ~ Source: Longfellow, David L., interviewed by Stephen Sloan, May 8, 2014 in Waco, Texas, Baylor University Institute for Oral History. Access full interview here.

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Baylor history professor David Longfellow recalls a 1970 student strike at the University of Virginia and the presence of Shakey's pizza amidst the disorder.

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Shakey's Pizza Parlor

By Skylar Ray

In the 1960s and 1970s, the taste of pizza and the sound of Dixieland jazz went hand in hand for Wacoans who frequented Shakey’s Pizza Parlor. Shakey’s, the nation’s first franchise pizza chain, would become famous for pioneering a winning…