Showing posts with label Diner with car theme. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Diner with car theme. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 11, 2025
Thursday, November 30, 2023
just outside Boston, Casey’s Diner has been going strong since 1890, when it was a mere four-stool operation in a horse-drawn wagon that Fred Casey purchased. The current diner was built in 1922 by the Worcester Lunch Car Company and it has passed from father to son for four generations.
It was originally a lunch cart wagon, and was located in Framingham, Massachusetts.
It was relocated to South Avenue in 1977 to make way for a bank parking lot.
The tiny establishment has only ten stools, all of which are frequently occupied by locals
Thursday, November 18, 2021
Wednesday, November 17, 2021
Monday, March 11, 2019
The Collin's Diner, maintaining a diner in the same location, in the 2nd iteration, for about 100 years. The orig was a horse drawn food cart
It's even been in a JK Simmons movie
"Collins Diner," by Ralph Goings is considered to be one of the more important works in photorealism.
https://wusfnews.wusf.usf.edu/post/get-real-exhibit-displays-works-top-photorealists-tampa-museum-art
http://www.collinsdiner.com/flyer.pdf
Tuesday, September 18, 2018
the owner of New Balance Footwear, bought a restored diner, and it's used for corporate events... sounds like it's at the corporate headquarters
Dave Pritchard of Salisbury had started buying old diners a number of years ago and storing them at his truck/trailer company yard in Salisbury.
The diners included the Miss Newport Diner of Newport, VT (now the Miss Mendon of Mendon, Mass.)
the Olympian Diner formerly of Braintree, Mass. as well as the Monarch.
the Englewood Diner last operated in Dorchester, Mass. was purchased by the owner of New Balance Footwear had purchased it and moved it to an undisclosed location, where the restored diner is being used for corporate functions only and not open to the public
It was sold the diner to Dan Johnston in the year 2000. Johnston purchased it for $20,000, moved the diner to the town of Holden. Johnston talked about reopening it and another was possibly attaching it to his house for private use. None of that ever happened and in fact, according to Randy Garbin of Roadside Online, Johnston even had the diner listed on Ebay for a short time.
While in Johnston’s possession, the diner ended up taking its longest round trip to be in a big budget Hollywood movie! Johnston was approached by Dreamworks Production Company in 2001. Dreamworks wanted to use the diner in a scene of the movie “Road to Perdition” starring Tom Hanks and Paul Newman. According to Garbin as quoted from his book Diners of New England, Dreamworks reportedly paid Johnston nearly $40,000 giving Johnston the first option to purchase it back after the scenes in the movie were completed.
The diner was transported to the Chicago area for the film and Johnston bought it back for less than half his original sale price. As Garbin noted the time-frame of the film was set in 1931 while purists would note that the diner is from 1941…
Johnston sold the diner to Dave Pritchard in 2003. That is when the Englewood came to Salisbury where it stayed until 2012 and ultimately purchased by New Balance Footwear.
https://dinerhotline.wordpress.com/2013/12/03/englewood-diner-becomes-red-line-diner/
Wednesday, March 08, 2017
the collection of Willis Johnson, and one of the largest diners of the private collections
he even had the Liberty Chopper from OCC... wow.
This diner is twice the size of most small restaurants!
Photos from http://clubs.hemmings.com/mid-tenn/willisjohnson.html
A good article about him here http://www.tennessean.com/story/money/tech/2016/04/14/franklin-businessman-shifts--demand-tech-takl/82980834/
Tuesday, December 20, 2016
Friday, April 12, 2013
who test pilots B-25's, gives them a dead cat bounce, and walks away with charm? Mel Gibson in the movie "Forever Young"
I love the blue tails with red and white striped rudders
Monday, November 03, 2008
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