#96-100

I am a terrible slacker.   To get these out of the way, I will look at five diners which have either been demolished or probably do not have much time left.

The Prospect Mountain Diner in Lake George was a double wide Silk City diner.    Originally located a little up the road with the name of the Point Diner, it was located in front of a Bowling Alley on the main drag in Lake George for many years.  As you can see, the diner suffered a terrible fire, and was sadly replaced by a Diner-Mite diner.  This Silk City was in top notch shape up until the fire.  The diner burnt down about six months after Rose, the night hostess passed away, unexpectedly.  She was a fixture at the diner.

Tops Diner once stood in Rotterdam.  The diner was built by Paramount, as was the addition placed on the right side of the diner, as it became more popular.  The diner replaced the Sodium Diner(believed to have been a Paramount) from 1939.  The original diner received its name from the sodium lights used on Route 7 from downtown Schenectady, westward.  This diner was demolished in favor of an on site restaurant called Tops, an American grill.

The next demolished diner spent the good part of its life in Oneonta, where the current Neptune Diner is now located.  That is because this was the original Neptune Diner.  The original diner had a cedar covered mansard roof, but otherwise this is what the Neptune looked like when it was in Oneonta.  When Kullman built a new diner around 2000, the old diner was trucked down the road to Otego where many people attempted to make a god of it with this diner.  After too many failed attempted, the diner was just demolished.

The Thruway Diner in New Rochelle was obviously built by DeRaffele, who are also located in the same town.  DeRaffele was also hired to remodel the diner.  See, originally the diner was one of the neatest googie/space age looking diners in the country, before it was post-modernized as you see here.  The flared windows and chrome and mirror finished glass on top.  Many diners went for this style in the 1990s in the metropolitan areas.  Unfortunately, the land was sold to a drug store chain and that was it for the diner.

This is Ruthie and Moe's Diner from Cleveland, Ohio in its better days.  when I went by the diner two years ago, it was boarded up and had most of its panels missing.  Sadly, what seemed to be a thriving diner could not make a go of it just outside of downtown Cleveland.  There was a second diner attached, but that had a fire and had to be replaced by an on-site building.  This diner may follow soon, from the way it looked.



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