If you’ve a dream to own a modular stainless steel Diner they are still being manufactured by Diner-Mite in the USA- but they’ll deliver internationally! According to their website in 2003 they “Re-Introduced the Happy Days Diners line of Low-Cost Diners. Learn more at www.DinerConcepts.com”
Providence, Rhode Island claims the first lunch wagon (1972)according to a Smithsonian Magazine article A Life Devoted to the American Diner. About Richard Gutman –an American Diner Expert “Johnson & Wales University’s Culinary Arts Museum in Providence, where Gutman has been the director and curator since 2005”
“The first stationary lunch car, circa 1913, was made by Jerry O’Mahony, founder of one of the first of a dozen factories in New Jersey, New York and Massachusetts that manufactured and shipped all the diners in the United States” Smithsonian Magazine
Other Diners I’ve posted
I posted an endangered diner in New Jersey in 2012
I’ve been to the 11th Street Diner at South Beach, Miami.
Very cool. I went and looked it up! https://eleventhstreetdiner.com/
Gosh, I remember eating in diners often as a kid. My father knew where all the good ones were. Today, there’s one with great food in Sharon, PA called Donna’s Diner.
Maybe I should drive up from Pittsburgh and do some research?
Oh yes, indeed! We ate there before Thanksgiving and thought it was good!
I bet the toast is much better than from Charlie’s Hot Wheels roller toaster. dc
It was!
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Plus Mickey’s Diner in St. Paul, Minnesota! Never been, but it’s been here since 1939.
Your meals look delicious. I will take diner fare to Michelin-starred restaurant food any day. 🙂