Diners #26-30

Five more diners before I take a few days off to head to Lancaster, PA for an apple grafting event.  hoping to hit at least one more new diner in New Jersey on way down. My total is at 891, so I still need to get over 100 more diners documented.

If you are reading this,  my internet is acting up, so I will finish this later. 

The 50's Diner on Broadway in Depew is only in its third owner.  The Silk City is from roughly 1954 as Silk City only built this model for a short period.  The current owner told me that the diner vestibule on this ran the owner an extra $4000.  The diner is mostly original on the inside, except that the counter on the right hand side was removed for the addition of two rows of booths.  So for us counter people, there is only half the counter there used to be.

This photo of the New College Diner on NY Rt 299 in New Paltz shows Mario Monti  getting ready to head inside.  The diner was a featured diner in our book, Diners of New York.  We like the idea that the owner does not want to remodel.  He wanted the diner to celebrate the "Spirit of '76" so he intends to keep the diner in the style of the 1970s.  While the 1970s diners will never ever have the nostalgia like the 1950s diners, if you are a true diner fan, you need to visit this diner and relive the 1970s.  The longer you wait, the more and more these diners disappear or get remodeled.

 Yes, this is a Silk City diner.  Snoopy's Diner on Quaker Lane in North Kingstown was simply remodeled on the exterior by Erfed.  The interior does still sport its Silk City-ness.  The owners say the diner is a circa 1941 diner and it was shipped from Pennsylvania in 1969 and opened for business in Rhode Island in 1971.  On this trip, I visited the diner with Glenn Wells, a frequent road trip associate.  it was nice to get to visit another Erfed creation, as so few of them exist anymore.

Montclair State University hosts a Kullman diner. News at 11.  It did make news when Montlair State University in New Jersey contracted(or maybe a third party?) with Kullman to put a new diner on the campus.  This was another diner that I visited while traveling with Glenn Wells.  I had gone by this diner twice before in the past, once at night as the construction was going on and never ate there before this trip.  I don't remember much about the food.

North of Elmsford, there are now a bunch of big box stores where one sat a diner.  Roughly, a 1961 Swingle plied the trade until the early 2000s.  I am unsure why they closed, but they did, and the diner sat abandoned. you could tell it was being used for shelter when I photographed the diner with Mario Monti around 2006.  The diner did have a Swingle tag, and this model was popular with Swngle for a short amount of time.  The style was probably Swingle's move from stainless steel into the Environmental movement with their fake brick and large picture windows.


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