The New Buffalo Restaurant
3298 Susquehanna Trail
Duncannon, PA

A postcard of the place showing an older sign. The restaurant itself still looks about the same.

Native American Handicrafts. There were billboards all over for this place, an old looking tourist type shop.

Giant dragon.

Lo-Ellen Motel

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Cool bridge by the river

Miniature statue of liberty in the middle of the Susquehanna. Not sure what the story behind it is, but it’s on an old railroad bridge support.

Horseshoe Bar and Grill

A few signs

SeaBash

Hershey’s

The Royal Sub Shop – The next best place to home

Take a look how the windows have been painted over. My guess is with that enormous expanse of glass and with the grills, the place turns into a giant oven in the summer and that was the easiest way of solving it.

The kitchen

It has a bit of an unusual interior setup, with the kitchen and service area are between the windows and the counter, instead of the usual arrangement of having it along the blank back wall.

The entrance is around back.

And it’s currently on the market.

Care for a milkshake?

It would seem this place bought an old airplane, cut off the tail and crashed it through their roof so that they could make a visual pun about chicken wings. Regardless, it’s pretty cool, and has a historical president. See here.

Under all that lies a mostly in-tact 1950s Silk City diner. We didn’t stop in this time, but last we did, it was a great little place.

And these big creepy statues are just down the street at another restaurant.

Open breakfast and lunch. We hit it after it had closed for the day.

110 15th St, Duncannon, PA

Angie’s is a true truck stop diner. Open 24 hours, with a diesel station, scales and a gift shop.

It’s almost impossible to tell what’s under all the remodeling when viewed from the outside. Stone, enormous multi-pitched mansard roof with a dormer.

Look at all those trucks. This is hanging over the cash register, from back in the days when it was the Trail Diner. For more pre-remodel photos, take a look at Diner Hotline.

Enormous Kullman with a dining room addition off to the left. Addition to the right? L-Shaped diner? double graft? Whatever it is, it’s a huge place.

The dining room is still almost entirely in-tact. It’s that nice transitional style between exaggerated modern and environmental. The Jetsons meet George Washington. Big picture windows, terrazzo, tile, exposed beams and flue light fixtures.

The original terrazzo floor, counter and backbar are still there, but all the walls of the diner are gone, leaving just the outline of the place in the floor of the larger structure.

The White Diner is located at 548 Penn Pike (Rt. 309) in Tamaqua Pennsylvania.

It started out its life as two Tamaqua and Lansford interurban trolleys/railcars. They were placed in an L shape, over a creek, on a plot of land between 309 and the railroad tracks. The one parallel to the road serves as the main diner, the one perpendicular as the dining room. A kitchen addition joins the two.
Here’s a photo of what the car looked like in its operational years, and another in its early years of operation, taken in the 1930s.

Here’s another shot, from the 1940s. The neon reads “Jake’s White Diner”. The diner advertises Counter and Booth service and adjoins a gas station.

It’s all still there, but has been bricked over, mansarded, and the windows have been replaced.

The gas station has been re-purposed as additional dining area, and additional construction has joined the two. The main entrance has been relocated to the vestibule just past the trolley, between it and the gas station.

The trolley car housing the dining room/ bathroom faces away from the road and has escaped modernization and environmentalization to a greater extent. The lines of the trolley are still evident.

The back of the diner.

A great diner backbar. There’s a big window so you can see what’s going on in the kitchen.

Flex-o-unit stainless

Terrazzo floors. Formica. Red topped chrome stools. What’s not to like?

More removed remodeling. Pretty amazing underneath. The original windows are still in the outer wall, behind more paneling.

Heres a section in the dining room where the paneling has been removed.

Chowder. My dad got the Friday haddock special with enormous hand cut fries.

The homemade macaroni and cheese. Just like my great aunt used to make.

There will be a bunch more pictures to come, but they were taken with the 50D, and I didn’t pack a card reader for it, so this one shot is all I have for now.
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Owner Mike Conroy

I had a tenor guitar lesson this morning with Marcy Marxer. It’s a cool instrument- I recommend checking them out.