A Look Back on January 28th

Over the years, today was a busy day for diner news. We've posted some of the news summaries in this column.

1/28/2008
NorthJersey.com wrote that several New Jersey diners were to be featured in an episode of "Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives."

1/28/2007
WNYT-TV reported about the closure of the Speedway Family Diner, in West Lebanon, NY due to fire.

1/28/2004
In the Portland Press Herald, Josie Huang wrote of the efforts Randall Chasse was pursuing to find the Miss Portland Diner a buyer.

1/28/2004

LaVerne's Diner Interior
| Pittsburgh
Photo by flickr member
theamericanroadside,
and appears here under
Creative Commons

Dan Gigler wrote of the passing of LaVerne Yorkgitis, owner of LaVerne's Diner in his Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article. His article touched on the history of the diner. While the diner was open, its future was uncertain.

About two and a half years later, another Pittsburgh Post-Gazette writer, Marlene Parrish, wrote that the diner was sold to a local businessman a few months after LaVerne's passing. The photo to the right shows the interior, when the picture was taken on February 17, 2008.

1/28/2001
Jenna Russell, writing for the Boston Globe noted Ted's Diner in Milford, Massachusetts would have to move. Plans for the site was a new fire station.

Ted's did move, however it was eventually demolished in 2002.


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