The Vintage Diner
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Pappy
Living the Dream
John Baeder (b. 1938) is an American painter best known for his detailed (Oil and Watercolor) paintings of American roadside diners and eateries.
Pappy's Diner, in oil, by John Baeder
Pappy's Diner, in oil, by John Baeder
Meanderer
Supreme Member
The picture did have a subtitle"Little Toy diner",that I did not understand and omitted. Now I know.
Pappy
Living the Dream
Meanderer
Supreme Member
The entrance is around the corner!Looks a little "shady" to me.
Pappy
Living the Dream
Meanderer
Supreme Member
Heart Attack Grill
Location: Phoenix, Arizona and Dallas, Texas
Price: $12.73 for a Quadruple Bypass Burger
This hospital-themed burger joint may be gimmicky, but it’s also serious as a heart attack. Although many U.S. eateries seem to fast-track overeaters to the ICU, the Heart Attack Grill has openly embraced it, offering aggressively unhealthy food while posturing as a send-up of fast food and obesity.
The menu is simple: Bypass Burgers made of 1-4 patties (containing 0 .5 - 2 lbs of meat), shakes made with butterfat, and an all-you-can-eat bar of Flatliner Fries, which are cooked in lard. Rounding out the menu is full-sugar Mexican Coke, Pabst Blue Ribbon, and Lucky Strikes (or candy cigarettes for the little ones who are aiming high). A waitress in nurse gear wheels those who finish the 8000-calorie Quadruple Bypass burger out to their car in a wheelchair. Diners weighing in over 350 lbs. eat free . (The eatery’s spokesman, 575-lb. Blair River, died in March of 2011 at age 29).
Location: Phoenix, Arizona and Dallas, Texas
Price: $12.73 for a Quadruple Bypass Burger
This hospital-themed burger joint may be gimmicky, but it’s also serious as a heart attack. Although many U.S. eateries seem to fast-track overeaters to the ICU, the Heart Attack Grill has openly embraced it, offering aggressively unhealthy food while posturing as a send-up of fast food and obesity.
The menu is simple: Bypass Burgers made of 1-4 patties (containing 0 .5 - 2 lbs of meat), shakes made with butterfat, and an all-you-can-eat bar of Flatliner Fries, which are cooked in lard. Rounding out the menu is full-sugar Mexican Coke, Pabst Blue Ribbon, and Lucky Strikes (or candy cigarettes for the little ones who are aiming high). A waitress in nurse gear wheels those who finish the 8000-calorie Quadruple Bypass burger out to their car in a wheelchair. Diners weighing in over 350 lbs. eat free . (The eatery’s spokesman, 575-lb. Blair River, died in March of 2011 at age 29).
Diner - Martin Sexton, 1996
In the song Sexton mentions "The Little Gem Diner off six niner". This is a real diner located in Syracuse, NY off Highway 690. Sexton used to hang out there when he was growing up. He claims that many of his songs were written while drinking coffee in The Little Gem.
Lyrics
You might have seen one out in Minnesota
Or maybe down by the sea in Sarasota
But they were made back in Worcester Mass
Of aluminum, bakelite and glass
Like a locomotive they were streamlined
And the blue prints were drawn up from a dream of mine
Slap 'em up put 'em on the train
Out to Michigan up to Maine
You may find a diner down in Georgia or
Carolina off the twenty by the piggly wiggly
In the country out of Waynesboro
Or when it's getting late and rainy out in New York State
You hang a louie off the thru-way
And you go and grab yourself a cheeseburger
At the little gem diner off six-niner
Diner my shiny, shiny love
In the night you're all I'm thinking of
Diner my shiny, shiny love
The cruiser pulls in where the trooper's always stop
As we dine over the chrome and formica table top
The cashier she always squints
By the gum and the bowl of mints
She's tapping her toe
To the Dean Martin on the consolette
Booth service and a cigarette we're loving it so
Side of fries, a dollar
Or the haddock plate, two ninety five
A rootbeer float a pepsi
And be sure to save some room for some apple pie
Better make it a-la-mode
Chorus
Dean Martin god rest his soul
Talkin' to me from the cereal bowl
There's a couple from the show me state
Knockin' back a little meatloaf plate
Diner my shiny, shiny love
Diner my shiny, shiny love
Diner my shiny, shiny, shiny love
Chicken and biscuits
With a side of gravy
Peach cobbler
In the song Sexton mentions "The Little Gem Diner off six niner". This is a real diner located in Syracuse, NY off Highway 690. Sexton used to hang out there when he was growing up. He claims that many of his songs were written while drinking coffee in The Little Gem.
Lyrics
You might have seen one out in Minnesota
Or maybe down by the sea in Sarasota
But they were made back in Worcester Mass
Of aluminum, bakelite and glass
Like a locomotive they were streamlined
And the blue prints were drawn up from a dream of mine
Slap 'em up put 'em on the train
Out to Michigan up to Maine
You may find a diner down in Georgia or
Carolina off the twenty by the piggly wiggly
In the country out of Waynesboro
Or when it's getting late and rainy out in New York State
You hang a louie off the thru-way
And you go and grab yourself a cheeseburger
At the little gem diner off six-niner
Diner my shiny, shiny love
In the night you're all I'm thinking of
Diner my shiny, shiny love
The cruiser pulls in where the trooper's always stop
As we dine over the chrome and formica table top
The cashier she always squints
By the gum and the bowl of mints
She's tapping her toe
To the Dean Martin on the consolette
Booth service and a cigarette we're loving it so
Side of fries, a dollar
Or the haddock plate, two ninety five
A rootbeer float a pepsi
And be sure to save some room for some apple pie
Better make it a-la-mode
Chorus
Dean Martin god rest his soul
Talkin' to me from the cereal bowl
There's a couple from the show me state
Knockin' back a little meatloaf plate
Diner my shiny, shiny love
Diner my shiny, shiny love
Diner my shiny, shiny, shiny love
Chicken and biscuits
With a side of gravy
Peach cobbler
Aunt Bea
SF VIP
- Location
- Near Mount Pilot
Diner - Martin Sexton, 1996
In the song Sexton mentions "The Little Gem Diner off six niner". This is a real diner located in Syracuse, NY off Highway 690. Sexton used to hang out there when he was growing up. He claims that many of his songs were written while drinking coffee in The Little Gem.
Lyrics
You might have seen one out in Minnesota
Or maybe down by the sea in Sarasota
But they were made back in Worcester Mass
Of aluminum, bakelite and glass
Like a locomotive they were streamlined
And the blue prints were drawn up from a dream of mine
Slap 'em up put 'em on the train
Out to Michigan up to Maine
You may find a diner down in Georgia or
Carolina off the twenty by the piggly wiggly
In the country out of Waynesboro
Or when it's getting late and rainy out in New York State
You hang a louie off the thru-way
And you go and grab yourself a cheeseburger
At the little gem diner off six-niner
Diner my shiny, shiny love
In the night you're all I'm thinking of
Diner my shiny, shiny love
The cruiser pulls in where the trooper's always stop
As we dine over the chrome and formica table top
The cashier she always squints
By the gum and the bowl of mints
She's tapping her toe
To the Dean Martin on the consolette
Booth service and a cigarette we're loving it so
Side of fries, a dollar
Or the haddock plate, two ninety five
A rootbeer float a pepsi
And be sure to save some room for some apple pie
Better make it a-la-mode
Chorus
Dean Martin god rest his soul
Talkin' to me from the cereal bowl
There's a couple from the show me state
Knockin' back a little meatloaf plate
Diner my shiny, shiny love
Diner my shiny, shiny love
Diner my shiny, shiny, shiny love
Chicken and biscuits
With a side of gravy
Peach cobbler
Back in the day my Aunt used to stop at the GEM after a night on the town to get her unemployment book signed so she could prove that she was out looking for work!
Doc Good sold out but the GEM is still going strong!
Falcon
DV8
- Location
- So. California
Now I AM hungry ! That looks SO good this morning.
