The Vintage Diner

[NancyNGA]

College Park, Maryland

 

[Meanderer]

The "Modern" Diner

"The Modern Diner is known for both its diner classics and its variety of ever-changing breakfast specials. The Pawtucket restaurant was chosen to be the first diner in the nation to be accepted on the National Register for Historic Places. Customized and factory-built, it is a Sterling Streamliner, a line of “modernistic” diners manufactured in the late 1930’s and early 1940’s.

Diners originated in Providence with horse-drawn canteen created by Walter Scott in 1872 to sell pies, coffee and light food to people who worked at night when restaurants were closed. Diners are an All American invention. They are the precursors of the all-pervasive fast-food outlets today. Simple inexpensive fare and quick service have always been their hallmarks".

 

[NancyNGA]

The Hullabaloo Diner, Wellburn Texas

"Built in the late 1930's, the Hullabaloo Diner traveled 1,850 miles from upstate NY to its current location. ...'Moving it down here from Albany, N.Y., cost five times more than the diner.' It took about a year to fix it up."

 

[Meanderer]

 

[NancyNGA]

 

[Meanderer]

Salton Sea

The take-away window at an abandoned diner on the west side of Yermo, California, a little community out in the Mojave Desert that's as much ghost town as it is anything else

 

[NancyNGA]

Landrum's diner, Reno, NV (canvas print)
"...came to Reno on a railroad flat car, assembled in 1947 by Eunice Landrum, who named her new diner “Landrum’s Hamburger System No. 1.” The system was intended to be a chain of hamburger shops, but the original expansion plans never developed. Eunice Landrum sold the diner in 1953 to Olive Calvert, who operated it until 1986. It has had a series of owners—and uses—since then."

(1958 Nash Metropolitan out front)

 

[Meanderer]

 

[Meanderer]

The Middle of Nowhere Diner

 

[Meanderer]

Earth Diner....It’s a hole-in-the-wall in Kamuning, Quezon City

The Good Earth - Knightsbridge, London

 

[Meanderer]

The Long Death of the Sad Little Diner On West Street

 

[NancyNGA]

Interesting. If you didn't click on the link, you'd think the first image was real, but it's a miniature sculpture, by a man named Alan Wolfson.

Another one, called Hobb's Luncheonette.

 

[Meanderer]

Thanks for catching that, Nancy! I was concentrating on the pictures.

...another of his creations:

 

[Pappy]

 

[NancyNGA]

Blue Diner, Boston, MA

South Street Diner (formerly the Blue Diner) was built in 1947 by the Worcester Dining Company to serve local factory workers. Still open, 2017.

(hope this is not a repeat)

 

[Meanderer]

BLUE DINER, Forgotten New York, Queens

 

[Meanderer]

Blue Bus Diner near Anchor Point, Kenai Peninsula, Alaska, USA.

This is a repeat!

 

[Pappy]

 

[Aunt Bea]

 

[RadishRose]

I remember that Bluebird Diner

 

[RadishRose]

"The Blue Diner", trailer

 

[Meanderer]

How Jerry Seinfeld Pays the Check

 

[NancyNGA]

After posting this, I was told this is from the movie "Forever Young."

 

[Aunt Bea]

In the days before the TSA we used to get a kick out of eating at the local airport's SkyChef restaurant, similar to the picture.

The food was pretty basic but it was quite a thrill for a little country bumpkin to watch the people and the planes.

 

[Meanderer]