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The DINER.

Dagwood

Practically Family
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554
Location
USA
I ate at the Pacific Dining car last week with MK. Quite a snazzy joint with well made steaks and waiters dressed to serve the elite.

The bread just kept coming.

Had lunch there today.

Place in still super snazzy, service is great, food is amazing! Ghost of Raymond Chandler still in the air...
 

59KUSTOM

New in Town
Messages
21
Location
Worcester, Massachusetts
Living right smack in the middle of the diner mecca of New England, I make it a point to hit at least one a month. I have 2 copies of "Diners of New England" by Randy Garbin. One stays on the shelf to be revered & one stays in my truck to use as a reference on my journeys. Sorry, folks, but pictures are at least a month away. I got a new camera, but this ancient computer of mine can't handle downloading the pics. I should have a shiny new 'puter by the end of May & then I'll catch up with some pics.
 

p71towny

Familiar Face
Messages
85
Location
Fort Wayne, IN
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Powers burgers. Right across the street from where I work. Is it wrong to think they smell good at 9:00am when I'm walking into work??
 

Dinerman

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Bartender
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10,562
Location
Bozeman, MT
Originally the Short Stop Diner, this place in Wheaton, MD recently closed, and has just re-opened as the Island Hut. It was built by Kullman in the mid '50s.
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10,560
Location
My mother's basement
Nah, I didn't snap the pic. It does capture the place well though. I'm not a photographer by any means.

Well, my hat is off to him, or her. A local press photographer, maybe?

I know enough about photography to know that I'm not much of a photographer either. But these newfangled digital cameras make taking pictures so inexpensive that I can get that one truly good shot in a thousand without bankrupting myself.

I take it this Powers place is something of a local institution, then? The building looks like it has survived pretty much unchanged for several decades.

That's among the things I miss about the Midwest of my early years, and what I enjoy about visiting there. We get precious little of that sort of thing out here in the Northwest, where the cities are generally newer and the residents are less rooted and where anything more than a couple of decades old is often deemed outdated and in the way of some "higher" use. Heck, we don't even pay off the notes on our (publicly funded) professional sports palaces before we tear 'em down and build new ones.

But then, as was observed long ago, poverty is the friend of preservation. Most of what are considered "landmark districts" out here were depressed areas for quite some time. (And would be seen as nothing out of the ordinary by East Coasters and Midwesterners.) The buildings survive because no one wanted to buy the underlying property and demolish the structures and build something new. I hear that downtown Detroit is quite the case study.
 

shazzabanazza

Practically Family
Messages
537
Location
New Zealand
I wish we had diners in New Zealand! They are awsome! The only diner's we have here is Burger King. I like to make miniatures and at some stage when Im not so busy with kids and studying, I intend to make a miniature diner :D
 

Story

I'll Lock Up
Messages
4,056
Location
Home
Like a hand to glove, the Great Depression touched on timeless characteristics. Sacrifice. Economy. Generosity within community.

Booyah has not necessarily stood this test of time.

The hobo-stewish mix of beef shank, chicken, oxtails, rutabaga and more will be served for lunch April 30 at the Greater Midwest Foodways Alliance’s “Midwest Eats! Foodways of the Great Depression.” The program runs through May 1 at Kendall College, 900 N. North Branch (west of Halsted).

http://www.suntimes.com/lifestyles/...ats-program-to-re-create-depression-food.html

Also posted here
http://www.thefedoralounge.com/show...-quot-Midwest-Eats-quot&p=1223187#post1223187
 

Dinerman

Super Moderator
Bartender
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10,562
Location
Bozeman, MT
Prospect Diner. Columbia, PA
1955 Kullman
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White Diner- Tamaqua, PA. Great food.
Converted trolley cars
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under all that is
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Blue Comet Diner. 1957 Mountain View. Remodeled in 1970s, remodeled again recently
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Tamaqua Diner- 1930s Bixler. Recently remodeled.
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Dinerman

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Bartender
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10,562
Location
Bozeman, MT
Beacon Diner. 1941 Paramount. Remodeled.
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The Creamery pool hall. 1940 Jerry O'Mahony. Remodeled almost beyond recognition.
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under all that is
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Dinerman

Super Moderator
Bartender
Messages
10,562
Location
Bozeman, MT
East Shore Diner- Harrisburg
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Angie's Family Restaurant. Duncannon, PA.
Originally looked like
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but has been remodeled into
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Treetopflyer

Practically Family
Messages
674
Location
Patuxent River, MD
I used to go to Tommy's Deluxe Diner in Middletown, RI when I was Stationed in Newport. When it looked like this-
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In 2007 they moved it to Utah and renamed it the Road Island Diner. Now it looks like this-
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