![]() A year later, in 1946, just down the street, at the corner of St. New York and Las Vegas were not the only cities where restauranteurs, celebrities, and alleged mobsters commingled. Segreto would later run Elmwood Plantation and Broussard's, both restaurants the Metropolitan Crime Commission had strong suspicions were linked to organized Italian crime. The younger Segreto would later move to Las Vegas where he managed the famed Louis Prima, a family friend, in the autumn of Prima's life. Ah, to be mentioned as a pizza town in the same breath as New Haven, Chicago, Detroit, and New York. 1945 would lend a ton more prestige in the American pizza world. What a great thing for the city if he or she could open up a Segreto pizza parlor and emblazon it with "New Orleans style pizzas since 1945." The dearth of long lived NOLA pizza parlors is illustrated by Venezia and Tower Pizza being the oldest operating pizza vendors in town. I hope there is some restauranteur remaining in the Segreto familiy. Owned and operated by Joseph John Segreto, it was a real travesty when his son, Joe, owner of Eleven 79, died in 2015. Pizza, owing to it being delicious, customizable, and cheap, soon spread from Segreto’s. Louis Segreto’s Restaurant and Bar began serving pies to a neighborhood of soon-to-be upwardly mobile Italian immigrants and children of Italian immigrants. And thus, we are able to establish that at 809 St. ![]() Are there records showing pizza existed in New Orleans before 1945? None that I can find in my searching through the N.O. ![]() Was there pizza in New Orleans before August of 1945? I have no doubt. Not surprising was its location in the city: the French Quarter, which by this time, was colloquially known as the Italian Quarter. Surprising to say the least, as New Orleans experienced a similar immigration of southern Italians during the same period as New York. The documentable birth of pizza in New Orleans starts 40 years after New York’s pizza history began. ![]()
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