

In the early '60's he decided he wanted to start his own business a restaurant.

After serving in the Army in WWII, he was in sales for various food distributors such as Nabisco, McCormick, etc. Aloysius High School, then attended Loyola. “He was born and raised in New Orleans, graduated from St. About a year later he moved to his West Park location on the bayou side between St. “He opened in July 1964 on West Main street, across from the National supermarket. The others are in Baton Rouge, Metairie, Covington, Houston.”īob's first place was not on Park Avenue. I'm the 4th of the group and the only one still residing in Terrebonne. He had six children with my mother (his first wife) 3 boys and 3 girls.

Recollections of Bob's published here recently prompted his son Patrick to share the following history: When cancer took owner-operator Bob Schoen in 1994, Houma's popular Bob's Pizza Palace on West Park Avenue ended some 30 years of hand-thrown crusty delights.
