While I was growing up, there was a Domino’s Pizza on Avenue L in the Canarsie section of Brooklyn. This was one of many pizza places on Avenue L. Like the other local mom-and-pop pizzerias, they had very good pizza.

Eventually, I started hearing about this “other” Domino’s Pizza — the one with the red, white and blue Domino logo — when I started traveling. I initially wondered if the two pizza companies were related.

The fact that the original Domino’s Pizza on Avenue L — along with many other mom-and-pop pizzerias in Brooklyn — closed their doors a long time ago while the big pizza chains infiltrated Brooklyn certainly — and sadly — answered my question.