This old Silk City was used as a location for Cyndi Lauper’s “Time After Time” music video. It now sits empty, in poor condition.
Great freestanding neon
Kitchen addition is narrower than the diner.
My girlfriend, Anna and me in front of the diner.
Peeling Paint. Torn Sign.
The specials are still displayed.
Puddles of water, algae and mold
I picked this up the other day at an antique shop and thought you all might appreciate a decent quality version of it up on the blog. Enjoy!
The West Shore Diner of Lemoyne, PA. After a 4:30 start time, we hit the West Shore Diner. We were the only non-regulars at the place at the time. It’s had a recent re-paint, this time in blue. Here are some older shots.
. It’s a very early Silk City.
Interior of the West Shore Diner
Midway Motor Inn Motel.
Byram Diner – Stanhope, NJ.
Tom’s Diner. New Jersey.
Cliff’s Dairy Maid – Ledgewood, NJ
Yankee Diner – Charlton, MA
Drive In – Leicester, MA
Drive In – Leicester, MA
Lee’s Diner is a 1951 Mountain View, serial 322. While at first glance it looks pretty well original, with two great freestanding neon signs. Closer inspection reveals an interesting series of additions and alterations. A dining room was bumped out the left hand side of the diner some years ago. The side stainless was removed at that point and put on the front wall to create an original looking facade. The left hand side is stucco or something of that sort, shaped and painted to match the stainless. The original vestibule wasn’t much bigger than a telephone booth, and since my last visit has been enlarged. A similar trick was pulled on the vestibule, with the original stainless used to make a several-foot enlargement look more or less original.
Nice old Seeburg Consolettes.
Hot Meatloaf sandwich with mashed potatoes and gravy.
The interior of the diner is still very original, with the exception of replacement booths.
Ka-Chunk.
Mountain View builder’s tag.
Inlaid “P.” in the terrazzo floor.
The older of the two neon signs.
The manufacturers of factory built diners marked their product with builders tags, just like the badge on a car or a kitchen appliance. I’ll be adding more as I go through my photo archives, but if you have any variants or builders from your travels or collections that you’d like to share, I’d love to see them!
Unfortunately, this grand old theater collapsed earlier this year.
Here are some shots I took of it back in June of 2006.
I went here for lunch today with my boss, Julia Caswell Daitch. It looks like it does mostly a carry-out business, which is what we ended up doing. I had the Jerk Chicken, she had the Chicken Curry. Both were excellent.
This diner is a 1950s Kullman Dinette model, and originally operated as the Short Stop Diner. The window counter is still there, but now there are also tables. The backbar equipment, grill, refrigerator, etc. has been removed. The counter and floor have been replaced. But the stools, stainless and Kullman tag are still in-tact.
My father, a frequent companion on my diner hunting expeditions and road trips, has recently started his own blog, with his fantastic photographs and writing.
Check it out! NeonDreamscapes
This one is in someone’s front yard, or maybe it would be more accurate to say that their house is in the former diner’s back yard. The diner looks to be a homebuilt, probably dating from the 1920s or 1930s. It has a brick front, with “DINER” painted in block letters on the front, just as it would have been on the enamel panels of a factory built diner of that period.
Diner Hunter 