Diners #111-115

Five more diners.

Occasionally, chains take over diners.  Often the diner is totally buggered up.  Fortunately, the franchise owner of this Subway has fought the corporate honchos and requested this former diner to stay as original as possible.  The inside has been changed; no counter, but the ceiling is original, and one day, who knows, maybe someone will rebuild a counter and bring back the diner days.  The only bad news is that the diner isn't in the best of neighborhoods, which usually isn't good for independent businesses.  This is a Mountain View diner, as they were aggressive in Indiana in the 1950s

A Worcester diner in Portland, Maine.  The Miss Portland was recently moved and an addition dining room and kitchen etc was added to the diner.  The diner is also surrounded by some new development.  Fortunately, the interior and exterior of this diner is in good shape.  I was only here once.  The diner was at its first location from 1949 to 1964. The diner stayed at its next location until 2004 when it was donated to the city of Portland, which ensured its safety.  The diner was sold in 2007 and moved to its current location in 2008.

Mel's Diner in Fremont sits right off of a four land limited assess highway which is known as US Rt 30.  Mel's is actually the second Starlite diner in Fremont as there is another one off of a different exit.  This diner started out in Jacksonville, Illinois as the Rocket Diner and then moved to Carter Lake, Iowa, a suburb of Omaha, Nebraska before moving to Fremont.

The Landmark Diner in Ossining, New York was remodeled by DeRaffele in a post modern style.  I do not know any of the diner's history, so I can not tell you how old this diner is, but it does seem to have a 1970's environmental diner footprint.  Ossining was home to a Bixler diner in the 1930s.  This diner sits on busy US Rt 9 between Peekskill and the Tappan Zee Bridge.  DeRaffele remodeled a handful of diners in their typical retro style with plenty of right angles.

There are two trolley diners in Chatham, Virginia, a little village on US RT 29 almost into North Carolina.  This streetcar from Reidsville, North Carolina was brought to Chatham in 1937 and operated by the same owner until the 1970s.  It operated for a short time in the 1980s, but has sat idle since that time.  Fortunately it is historically recognized for its significance to the community.  Today, the diner is registered on the Virginia Landmarks Register and the National Register of Historic Places.  It would be nice to see the diner working once again, but hopefully at the very least, it will be preserved.


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