Pine Bluff's Big Banjo Celebrates 50 Years

Thin-crust pizza, all-you-can-eat buffet and nostalgia galore

I took a bite of the Big Banjo pizza, and it hit me. 

The first pizza I ever tasted as a kid came from a Big Banjo oven. Back in the 1970s, a pizza place didn't exist on every corner. Pizza was, in fact, considered foreign fare, especially in South Arkansas.

Big Banjo was founded in 1974 in Pine Bluff. On Wednesday the restaurant celebrated its 50th anni…