Diners #1-5

Here is the first random look at the diners that I have visited, five at a time.  Currently, I have visited 891 diners.

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 The first diner has to be the Miss Troy Diner.  This is my favorite diner due to what it meant to me.  This is the closest a diner came to being a regular thing to me.  When the owners allowed this diner to be demolished, it was a sad day for me.  They didn't have to let it be demolished, there were people willing to run the place.  The diner was a Brill, remodeled by Swingle around 1969.  Swingle put on a fake mansard roof and a fake front and replaced the windows with the windows you see in this photo.  The diner had room only for a counter and tables for two.

The next diner I do not have a photograph of.  I either went to the Village Diner in Whitehall very early in my diner insanity or before that even existed.  Me and a friend Heather C. went to the diner one night for dinner.  I vaguely remember thinking there was not much of a diner in it, as it had an addition built on to it.  The diner was sold to the Sherburne Museum in Vermont, and after it languished up there, Dan Rundell picked up the pieces of the diner and used it to help him restore his diner in Spencertown, NY  So I guess the diner does still live on.  The diner turns out to be an old barrel roof O'Mahony.  I believe someone knows the number of the diner, but don't hold me on that.

The next diner is the Four Aces Diner in West Lebanon, New Hampshire, just across the border from Vermont.  After a few failed attempts at finding the diner open for the days business, the third time was the charm.  I believe I visited this diner with my friend Andrea L. and we both had really good food.  The interior of this Worcester Diner #837, built in 1952, is very well preserved while the front of the exterior is in view, with the rest of the diner encased in the surrounding building.   This is a later model Worcester that is well worth visiting.

 It was tough to get a good photo of this diner, but I passed this Manno diner, now a pizza place, on my way to yogi Berra stadium on the campus of Montclair State.   One wishes there were more of these smaller diners in the landscape.  The zig zag style is something that is vastly under appreciated except for the rabid diner fanatics.  I got a slice of pizza. It was decent, but it is not the same as if one could sit down and get a good breakfast at this place.  You can find this diner in Little Falls, NJ at the corner of East Main St. and Van Ness Ave.

We will end with a recent photo, at a place where you can not get a bite to eat, unless you brought some food in yourself.  Closed on a sunday, and it didn't matter, this diner in Warren, Ohio is now Agree Auto Sales.  I guess the diner is still there, but it is a shame this diner, on a main thoroughfare, is not serving hash and homefries and all that sort of breakfast fare.  The diner is believed to be a DeRaffele.