MILWAUKEE PIZZA.

That is a category, and here is more history of the pioneering Caradaro Club.  "Milwaukee – despite its Italian communities in the Third Ward, Bay View, West Allis and around Brady Street – was slow to the pizza party."  The Milwaukee version of pizza came after, and is different from, the deep dish or stuffed crust style that showed up in Chicago after the War.

John Caravella – born in Milwaukee in 1905 to immigrant parents from Naples – and Joe Todaro – himself a Sicilian immigrant – opened the Caradaro Club at 326 E. Erie St. on the ground floor of a three-story building at 326 E. Erie St., below a boarding house in 1945. That’s two years after Pizzeria Uno owner Ike Sewell and/or – depending on who you believe – Uno chef Rudy Malnati invented Chicago’s deep dish version at the restaurant in the Windy City’s River North neighborhood.

The article also mentions a few other pizzerias I recall from my youth. "Vince DeMarini opened his place on Wentworth and Potter in Bay View in 1952, and Zaffiro’s would land on Farwell Avenue in 1954. Lisa’s on Oakland dates to 1960, to name but a few that would come later." There still are Milwaukee area pizzerias in the Caradaro Club tradition, most notably Calderone Club.  It's apparently still possible to get pizza in Bay View.  "Santino's Little Italy, located at 352 E Stewart St, made [Yelp's] list at No. 46 in the country."  There's a DeMarinis on Conway Street as well.  Cheese, sausage, mushroom, onion, first option!  Is it time for a road trip?