Well, the Kumm Esse Diner in Pennsylvania is safe after all! Not much diner news at all otherwise so lets get to the diners.
It's a different angle for a diner photo, but this is the best side of Sharyn's Diner in Marcy, New York. Supposedly this diner started out in Frankfort, and moved up to Wurz road in between North Utica and Utica before moving to NY Rt 49 just outside of Utica, on the way to Rome. In recent years, this road was bypassed by the Utica Rome Expressway, but still does a decent business, just not the truck business like it used to do. On the front side of this five digit Silk City Diner #51112 the bottom stainless had been covered over by stone. Before the current incarnation, the diner did a good business at Betty''s Diner and before that the Jet Diner. Confusion does reign as a stick built diner down the road did call itself the Jet Diner in the 1990s.
Supposedly I have eaten here, but it must have been so long ago, that I have forgotten about it ever happening. This DeRaffele two piece diner sits a block down from the Worcester factory in Worcester, Massachusetts. You can tell from this photo and also by looking at the left side of this diner that it is falling into a state of disrepair. It must also have a good amount of rot, visible and hiding too. In my latest trip with Glenn Wells, we were too late to get a bite at the Corner Lunch, but we did snap some photographs.
Geets Diner in Williamstown, New Jersey is located on US Rt 322 more affectionately known as the Black Horse Turnpike. The diner sits at an intersection, a highly popular location for a diner in a suburban area and has a sports bar addition where I ate with a group from the SCA on a tour of diners and other stuff in southern New Jersey not that long ago. This diner makes me want to write run on sentences for some reason. I just don't know what to say about it. The diner sports a lot of shiny chrome from a remodeling and in a way looks like a larger Starlite diner. Inside it does look a lot more like a diner, albeit a brand new diner, but still.
The Seaport Diner in Port Jefferson Station on the Nesconsett Hwy is just another diner on Long Island. Each diner seems to have its own idiosyncratic style in appearance, but many share different pieces. The Seaport has a fairly large entrance, but not as large as others. The windows are flat and above them are pieces of shiny glass. I did not go inside as this was on my whirlwind trip, so I can't tell you how they affect the interior. The diner even has a little stone on the right side, topped with glass block. True Long Island style! Diners need to be over the top on Long Island, or they just get passed by, as two miles down the road is the next diner, in most cases.
The only diner in Iowa I have not eaten in, that I know still exists. Still not sure if the Clamshell Diner in Muscatine is back open or not. The Valentine diner sits, fenced in, facing the Mississippi River with just a road in between it and the mighty river. The diner was moved to this location in the semi recent past and also looks like it was sided over too. Iowa is longer than I always think and this diner is a good 5-6 hours away from my usual home base of Lanesboro, Minnesota when I am out in the midwest, so unless i know for sure it is back open, I will probably not be in Muscatine any time soon.
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