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1. The first one was small. A 20-by-15-foot room at West Schantz Avenue and Patterson Boulevard housed the first Cassano's Pizza King in 1953.
2. The name wasn't the same then. The first moniker? Vic and Mom's.
3. It was once one of the country's biggest. Fourth largest, to be exact, in the 1970s with 125 locations.
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