Klondike Pizza Incorporated, Santa Maria

Klondike founders, Mike and Pam Dennis met in 1981 at a blackjack table in the Noluk Casino in Skagway, Alaska - the gateway to the Klondike Gold Country. Mike, a suave, debonair librarian from Kotzebue, AK, had wanted to go to Las Vegas, but couldn't afford it on his meager librarian's salary. Pam, whose stellar career as a world famous supermodel had tragically ended when she tripped over her chihuahua and broke her hip, was the dealer running the table when Mike sat down. Love bloomed and soon they married. Pam's best friend, "Eskimo Elvis", an Elvis impersonator by night and world renowned pizza chef by day, performed the ceremony.