Diners #116-120

The Pelican Diner in Florida was in storage about four years ago.   I have not heard that it has come out of storage unfortunately.   The Pelican spent a good fifty plus years on St. Pete Beach on the main drag.  The main drag became too popular with new buildings, and the diner went.  Mountain View sent many diners to places like Indiana and Florida, and this is just one of many that ended up down in the southern confines on the Tampa-St. Pete region.  There is a glimmer of hope, but it is going to take someone special to rescue this diner.

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma has at least five Valentines left, and not one looks similar to the other, either due to remodelings or due to the design by the manufacturer themselves.  This diner is on South Walker, south of downtown and the main drag out of town in a neighborhood that has seen better days. It is that in between neighborhood.  not quite the suburbs, not quite downtown.  Plus, I don't think this diner has any off street parking.   Plus, the door just doesn't fit too well.

The Hi-Lite is another diner that is no longer with us today.  Out on Long Island, the diner sat on Nesconset Hwy in Port Jefferson Station.  The road, like most on Long Island, is well traveled.  The diner sported some environmental features, but it was also muddled in appearance.  I did hear that the diner was demolished, but I never followed up to see what was built on the site.  A view on google maps seems to show a TD Bank on site where they place the diner.  Six years is too long for me to remember the precise location of the diner, especially with a regraded landscape.

Fortune Gardens in Babylon was another diner I visited on the same trip that I stopped at the Hi-Lite.  On Long Island you can practically hit a diner every five minutes, minus traffic.At least the diner is still alive, even if it does not serve diner food.   It is located in what seems to be downtown Babylon on West Main Street, also known as the Montauk highway and NY Rt 27A.  Much of the through traffic is found the Sunrise Highway a little north, but there is still enough traffic on every road on Long Island.

This diner is open, and serves diner food, but I have yet to eat here, even though I have been by this place about three times, if not more.  Joe's Diner, a Sterling in Taunton, Massachusetts is located just outside of the downtown.  The diner has its own parking lot, but it has no fancy foundation or landscaping.  They are a breakfast and lunch place, and I am usually headed elsewhere, with Joe's not my intended destination.  Eventually, I will get to this Sterling diner.

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