Pizza may have been first sold in Gardner at the former Buffo’s Spaghetti House
Mike Richard
What’s happened to all of the pizza joints in Gardner?
Of course, I am being facetious, but at one time there was more than a dozen places in the city where you could purchase a pizza pie in these parts.
It nearly became a joke of sorts that a city the size of Gardner had more pizza joints per capita than most communities statewide.
However, that number is dwindling to the point where now there are only eight places in Gardner to buy pizza.
The Gardner Scene: It’s been 50 years since 1971!
Many readers will no doubt remember some of these events like they happened only yesterday
Mike Richard
Special for The Gardner News
If you can remember the last time you saw a cigarette advertisement on television, remember the first time you heard a toilet flush on television or bought Carole King’s “Tapestry” album when it first came out – then you’re old enough to remember 1971.
Why is it that each year, as we get older, it’s so hard to believe that things that happened a full half-century ago really don’t seem that long ago after all?