Diners #106-110

Wow, a new post and it's not too long since the last.  Lets keep this up!  No trips in the immediate future planned, but I do want to some time get down to northern New Jersey and get to the Miss America Diner.   God willing, in a month or so, I am headed to Minnesota, and will get to visit some great diners along the way.  A restored Suzie Q's in Mason City, Iowa.  and the famed Spud Boy Lunch in Lanesboro, Minnesota.  Plus a new diner for me in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin which will have me once again completing all the diners of Wisconsin!

This diner, the Miss Wakefield Diner in eastern New Hampshire originally lived just outside of Rensselaer, New York on US Rt 9.  The diner was owned by the Carpinello family before they sold the diner and it was trucked to New Hampshire.  I have not eaten here yet, as I have been distracted by too many other diners along the way.   This O'Mahony started out in 1949 and moved shortly after closing up in 1981.  They are not open for dinner, which does complicate things for me.

The Aero Diner in Willimantic, Connecticut has also moved around.  Their website tells about the two other locations in Connecticut, and how the diner needed a lot of restoration, which seems to be a similar story.  The diner was only one of two diners built by Bramson Engineering of Long Island, New York.  Mario Monti believes the other stayed on the island.  This diner sits by the Windham Airport on the famous US Rt 6, a popular coast to coast highway.  So far, the Aero is a popular place.

A rare Valentine diner on the east coast, it is one of four still left standing in Virginia.  Stone's Downtown diner sits in Hopewell, Virginia.  At the time of my one visit, the diner was open, and I was able to eat here.  I did hear that currently the diner is closed and the owners are just doing catering.  This Valentine diner is in very good condition and does seem to sit in a safe location, as it is off of main street.  I do not know any of the history of this diner, but Valentines are one of the easiest diners to move.

My first diner in Maryland that I have posted to this blog.  A rare Comac sits in Laurel, Maryland on US Rt 1, across the street from a former Little Tavern restaurant.  The Tastee diners are a chain of three diners in the northern suburbs of Washington D.C.  This diner is the youngest of the three.  I think I have only been here once, back in 2008, but somehow I feel like I have been there twice.  Comac made diners from roughly 1947 to 1951, so this was a short lived company.  The diner is in fair shape and sports a weathered Comac tag.

Clayton, North Carolina is where we will end this trip.  The diner sits on the Business route of US Rt 70 in front of a shopping center.  The diner is built by Diner Mite diners, and seeing some of the other diners, this is one of their better diners. The foyer does add something to the view, even if it does not add any color to the facade of the diner.  There are a few Diner mites in North Carolina as a few restaurant owners have tried to take advantage of the diner fad of the 1990s in the mid-Atlantic. This photo was from my only visit.


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