The Weekend Roundup feature draws from some of the postings we made during this past week. It's purpose is a quick summary and one area of the blog where we don't include map links. At times we may include other items here not making the blog that may be of interest to our readers. We'd like to hear your comments or suggestions.
Sunday, August 31st will mark the second anniversary of O'Rourke's diner fire. The diner reopened February 11, 2008.
Although this 1941 Fodero Dining Car Company diner hasn't served food for many years, that could change. A recent news article here speaks of a possible move. It last saw duty as All Ears' Records store until closing in 2005.
We found several pictures of the diner online:
Agilitynut's diners website here
During this road trip we plan to visit diners in Massachusetts, Maine and New Hampshire. In addition, we'll stop in at a few diners we've already visited in the past.
Our trip began just outside of Boston, MA, when we started driving on U.S. Route 1 and continued northeast. We navigated over to Route 128 and followed it to the traffic circle exiting onto Washington Street. From there it was over to Main Street for a few pictures of a circa mid-century O'Mahony diner.
Currently not a diner, the restaurant operates as the Supreme Roast Beef.
The Weekend Roundup feature draws from some of the postings we made during this past week. It's purpose is a quick summary and one area of the blog where we don't include map links. At times we may include other items here not making the blog that may be of interest to our readers. We'd like to hear your comments or suggestions.
The Liberty Elm celebrated its first anniversary this week.
Closed: Smyrna Diner
Although the Cheyenne Diner is closed, the lights are back on for a brief time. According to this report, scenes are being shot at the diner for the film, "An Englishman in New York."
Cheyenne joins another diner in the news with a Hollywood connection. The former Ken's Diner of Birch Run, MI is being used for scenes in the movie "Whip It!"
On this date in 1893, Worcester, Massachusetts resident Thomas H. Buckley was issued design patent number D22743, titled "Design for a Lunch-Wagon Body." Here is a quote from the patent.
"In my design for a lunch wagon body, a row of windows extends entirely around the wagon body at the top portion thereof, just below the roof, except where there is a door in each side of the wagon body."
Back in November 2005 the former DeCoven Diner was moved from Duncannon, PA to storage in Monroe, CT. A vintage picture of the diner may be seen in flickr member dinerhotline's photostream here. While in storage plans were made to reopen this 1954 O'Mahony diner at a site on Duka Avenue in Fairfield, CT. Today's news reports the move is on hold until next year. Read the entire article here.
The approximate future location of Zemo's Diner, is four tenths of a mile from the former Fairfield Diner and Vegetarian Enclave in Fairfield, CT. That diner closed in October 2005. We have a picture of the Fairfield on our flickr site here.
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Zemo's Diner
Duka Ave.
Fairfield, CT
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We invite you to visit our flickr diner photostream.
The former Ken's Diner in Birch Run, Michigan is open again. According to WNEM, the former diner is being used as a set location for Drew Barrymore's movie "Whip It!"
We'll post more information as it becomes available.
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We invite you to visit our flickr diner photostream.
The Weekend Roundup feature draws from some of the postings we made during this past week. It's purpose is a quick summary and one area of the blog where we don't include map links. At times we may include other items here not making the blog that may be of interest to our readers. We'd like to hear your comments or suggestions.
These diners were added to the database:
Liberty Diner*
819 N. Main St.
Providence, RI
- from this auction.
On this date in 2007 the Victory Diner was moved from 1781 Richmond Road to storage at the Parks Department in Midland Beach, Staten Island, NY. Prior to this move it had been there since 1964. Here's a picture of this 1940s Kullman Challenger model diner at its Richmond Road location. The Staten Island Advance posted a video of the diner moving.
The diner's appeared in Easy Money and The Education of Max Bickford.
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A year ago yesterday, the diner left its long standing home at 6th Ave and Grand Street in New York City, bound for LaBarge, Wyoming. It was another case of the land below the diner being worth more than the building or the memories it contains. We found an article stating that parcel of land was one of three properties in a package bought by a developer. Purchase price was about thirty-three and a half million dollars. The diner itself sold for seven thousand five hundred dollars.
Read more...8/7/2008 Update: Today the diner was mentioned online as being for sale here. Included in the article are pictures and some background information on the diner.
Original blog entry posted 5/30/2008
Update: A link to a YouTube video of the diner being lowered onto the trailer is here.
On Tuesday the former Cosmo's diner was moved from Chesapeake, VA. Yesterday it was lowered onto it's new foundation off White House Road in Moneta, VA. We first spoke of Cosmo's in our June 23rd post. If all goes well, they expect to be up and running by Labor Day.
A picture of where the drive-in portion will be located is here.
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This past Saturday, we made another trip to this 1927 P.J. Tierney & Sons, Inc. manufactured diner. Upon arrival we noticed the parking lot was full—a good sign. Following the yellow bricks up the ramp led us to the entrance in the attached building. Once inside we looked around and there was not an empty table or stool to be found. Being that a diner's the original fast food restaurant, it was only a short wait. Although the purpose of this blog is not about food, on the way toward our seats at the counter, we took a peek to see what the locals were eating. We'll get to that in a moment.
Over the years styles changed and exteriors of diners were modified to give them a "fresher look." In the picture to the right, it would appear that the exterior is close to the original. The roof line retains its barrel shaped curvature. We found out that behind the new screened door, the original pocket door was repaired and now slides open and closed. Similar work was performed on the windows allowing them to be operable once again.Diner News and History blog is Garmin Communicator enabled. What this means is, in our posts with a link to a Google map, you'll be able to save that diner's location to your GPS. Jim Steele's blog has a tutorial on the process of sending waypoints to your GPS. Thanks Jim for pointing this out!
For testing your GPS to PC connectivity, go to Garmin's website. Though you'll need to have the browser plug-in installed, GPS connected to your computer and powered on. This process worked well, though we did encounter an issue in the waypoint naming during some of our tests.
While we include addresses and GPS coordinates in our posts, we can't guarantee their accuracy. Use of such data is at your own risk.
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On this date in 1937 Bertron G. Harley received three patents:
#2,089,058 - "This invention relates to portable restaurants known as "diners" and to building structure peculiarly adapted for housing the same. It also relates to improved features of knock-down construction for small buildings in general and to means for ventilating their interiors." View the entire patent here.
#2,089,059 - "This invention relates to portable restaurants known as diners and to
Whether you have sent us email or left comments in our blog entries, we'd like to take a moment to thank you. Hearing from you is an important part of this adventure. Over the last week or so, the blog has been a little quiet. Rest assured, we have several things in the works.
These diners were added to the database:
The Classic Diner*
Lansing, MI
- as seen on flickr here.
Diner Exhibit
Diners: Still Cookin' in the 21st Century
Culinary Archives & Museum at
Johnson & Wales University315 Harborside Blvd. Providence, RI View Map / Send to GPS* | Chuck Wagon Diner
Chuck Wagon Diner655 Western Tpke. Duanesburg, NY View Map / Send to GPS* | Road Island Diner
Road Island Diner website981 Weber Canyon Rd. Oakley, UT View Map / Send to GPS* | Tin Man Diner
70 County Rd.
North Falmouth, MA
View Map / Send to GPS* |
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