Mrs. Gus's Doughboys

" Imitated but not Equaled "

On the Midway, Oakland Beach, RI
great Food | Best Friends | Great Memories
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1940-1985
889 Oakland Beach
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1924-1935
875 Oakland Beach
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1935-1940
885 Oakland Beach
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1941-1985
885 Oakland Beach
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1947-Present
875 Oakland Beach
Our History

It all started from Greece

117 YEARS AND STILL COUNTING...

 

In a tiny hillside village in Neapolis Lakonia Greece in 1907 my grandmother Eleni made doughboys for my aunt Frieda “Mrs. Gus” when she was a little girl1. In 1940 she commercialized it and till we closed in 1985 we sold approximately 20 million doughboys many times 650 dozen a day.

 

Creator of the Oakland Beach Doughboy 1940,, and the word Doughboy 25 years before Pillsbury named their chubby little dough figure. This fried Greek dough recipe which is a secret today in 2023

1.The Providence Journal Magazine, The Rhode Islander July 22 1973. p.12

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Mrs. Gus's Doughboys Oakland Beach Warwick Rhode Island

Mrs. Gus's Doughboys Oakland Beach Warwick Rhode Island

Creator of the Oakland Beach Doughboy 1940,, and the word Doughboy 25 years before Pillsbury named it