The Vintage Diner

Dizzy's Finer Diner
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"During a campaign trip to Oregon in 1959, Jacques Lowe had taken a photograph that captured the couple’s iceberg-like isolation. It resembled Nighthawks, Edward Hopper’s painting of a man and a woman sitting in a nearly empty urban diner, eyes averted, silent, bored, and alone.

In Lowe’s photograph they are sitting side by side in the corner booth of a diner. She is holding a mug of coffee to her mouth and looking down at a magazine. He is resting his elbows on the table, has clasped his hands together in front of his mouth, and is staring across the table at his brother-in-law Stephen Smith, whose back is to the camera.

Sunlight streams through some venetian blinds, throwing stripes of sun and shadow across his face".
 
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