https://madisonpizza.wiki/wiki/history/Joe%E2%80%99s_Pizza_Pie?feed=atomJoe’s Pizza Pie - Revision history2026-11-08T10:17:19ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.43.9https://madisonpizza.wiki/index.php?title=Joe%E2%80%99s_Pizza_Pie&diff=10143&oldid=prevJacques: New page: Joe Aiello's restaurant at 907 Regent St. (1945), the earliest pizza business found in the Madison papers2026-10-26T18:29:03Z<p>New page: Joe Aiello's restaurant at 907 Regent St. (1945), the earliest pizza business found in the Madison papers</p>
<p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''Joe's Pizza Pie''' was Joe Aiello's restaurant and tavern at 907 Regent St., in the Greenbush neighborhood. It is the earliest business found in the Madison papers that advertised pizza. A 2008 State Journal history called it the rumored first pizza place in Madison and dated it to 1943<ref name="mc-2008-05-28-through-thick-and-thin">Wegner, A. N. (2008, May 28). [https://madison.com/lifestyles/article_5dd95b69-95b3-518b-95aa-95dcb51fd35f.html "Through thick and thin: Madison's pizzerias have come a long way from their humble start on Spaghetti Corner."] ''madison.com''.</ref>; the papers first show it in February 1945.<br />
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==History==<br />
In 1942 the building was a grocery, the Joe Reda Meat Market and Grocery<ref name="wsj-1942-11-12-p24">(1942, November 12). Business personal: purchase of the Joe Reda Meat Market and Grocery, 907 Regent St. ''Wisconsin State Journal''. p. 24. Newspapers.com image [https://www.newspapers.com/image/396966054/ 396966054].</ref>. Its store fixtures, among them a grocery display counter, were advertised for sale in January 1945<ref name="wsj-1945-01-19-p13">(1945, January 19). Store fixtures for sale, including a grocery display counter, at 907 Regent St. ''Wisconsin State Journal''. p. 13. Newspapers.com image [https://www.newspapers.com/image/402011348/ 402011348].</ref>. Two weeks later Joe's Pizza Pie began advertising every week in both papers: "JOE'S PIZZA PIE — RESTAURANT and TAVERN — 907 Regent St. — We Specialize In ... PIZZA — SEA FOODS — VEAL SCALOPINI — We Also Serve ... RAVIOLI ... SPAGHETTI ... STEAKS ... CHICKEN — Though we may not have the newest in equipment—until after Victory — we do serve the FINEST IN FOODS! JOE AIELLO—proprietor"<ref name="wsj-1945-02-02-p10">(1945, February 2). "Joe's Pizza Pie Restaurant and Tavern — 907 Regent St. — We Specialize In Pizza", Joe Aiello, proprietor. ''Wisconsin State Journal''. p. 10. Newspapers.com image [https://www.newspapers.com/image/401954200/ 401954200].</ref><ref name="ct-1945-02-02-p11">(1945, February 2). Joe's Pizza Pie advertisement, 907 Regent St. ''The Capital Times''. p. 11. Newspapers.com image [https://www.newspapers.com/image/518730913/ 518730913].</ref>.<br />
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By September 1945 it called itself "Joe's Pizza Pie Spaghetti House", with chicken dinners, French-fried shrimp, veal scaloppine and spaghetti with meatballs<ref name="wsj-1945-09-16-p21">(1945, September 16). Joe's Pizza Pie Spaghetti House advertisement, 907 Regent St. ''Wisconsin State Journal''. p. 21. Newspapers.com image [https://www.newspapers.com/image/401884239/ 401884239].</ref>. In December the ads read "REOPENED — To again serve the finest in Italian-American Foods"<ref name="ct-1945-12-07-p15">(1945, December 7). "Joe's Pizza Pie — Spaghetti House — 907 Regent St. — Reopened". ''The Capital Times''. p. 15. Newspapers.com image [https://www.newspapers.com/image/518420298/ 518420298].</ref>. No ads for it have been found after 1945.<br />
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==Pizza==<br />
* "We Specialize In ... PIZZA" (1945)<ref name="wsj-1945-02-02-p10" />.<br />
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==Former Locations==<br />
* 907 Regent St. (1945)<ref name="wsj-1945-02-02-p10" />.<br />
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==See also==<br />
* [[1940s (decade)]]<br />
* [[Item:Q3005|Joe's Pizza Pie in the Madison Pizza Wiki database]]<br />
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==Notes==<br />
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[[Category:1940s]]</div>Jacques