Diners #46-50

  Just returned from a two day trip into mostly New Hampshire to see some new diners (eight more) and photograph some that I have not photographed since roughly 2000 with a non digital camera.  I'll include three of the diners I saw today and a couple others.

Located in Brattleboro, Vermont, this "diner" does not serve diner food.  Their website says it all. http://www.tjbuckleys.com/  T.J. Buckley's is housed in the shell of an old Worcester diner.  The diner has been completely gutted and the exterior has been fixed up to look less like an older diner and more like a nicely kept small diner.  I heard never heard from anyone who has eaten at the place, but maybe one day, if I hit the lottery, I will have to stop.

A Kullman diner in Hillsborough, New Hampshire.  After my third time passing this diner, I was finally able to eat here.  This is a regular model, not a Challenger, which means it has booths along the windows.  The inside is mostly original.  The floor tile-work is amazing. You really do need to see it.  You can tell where the original door is located on the front, but it is not in use anymore, as you enter through the side, into an addition.  They do a good job with their food, and a couple of days a week, they reopen from 5pm to 8pm for dinner.

The former Remember When Diner of Rochester, New Hampshire is now a Mexican restaurant.  It was very difficult getting a photo of the Starlite diner, which seems to be made up of six sections, due to the angle of the sun and the clouds.  There are actually more than a few Mexican restaurants located inside of an authentic diner.  I ate at another Starlite in Iowa which changed to a Mexican restaurant, but this was just a photo stop as there were many other places to eat at farther north.

This 1959 Kullman, with a little bit of space age flair along the roof sits on the outer edge of downtown Canton along the old Lincoln Highway.  Today, the US Rt 30 has bypassed downtown Canton, taking much of the business from this diner.  The diner sits in front of a downtown motel, still in business.  The diner, interior and exterior are still in good shape. Being a two piece diner(excluding the entryway) the kitchen is in one back corner of the diner and the dining room extends in an L shape inside.

While traveling through Yonkers with Glenn Wells of roadsidefans.com, we found this diner by chance.  I think I may have had an inkling that it might have been still there, but this diner did not make the book, Diners of New York.  We were on our way to the DeRaffele factory.  The diner is your typical mansard Mediterranean environmental diner with curved windows and stone on the exterior.  The diner has been updated with a metal mansard roof and the inside has been updated over time, though it still sports its cantilevered stools at the counter.

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