Overview of mural
Detail of Little Tavern
“The Spirit of Wheaton” 1990.
The former location of the Wheaton Little Tavern. The frame of the sign is still standing, but the insert has been replaced.
Site Plan of the corner, showing where the Wheaton Little Tavern was originally.
Info on mural and its location
The Deepwater Diner was built in 1958 by Silk City- as of our last visit, it was in great shape, with solid tasty diner food. It’s attached to a 1950s-era truck stop.
Kuppy’s was built in 1938 by Ward and Dickinson. Despite it being bricked over, the diner is nicely preserved inside and has excellent food.
Another Ward and Dickinson
The Vale-Rio diner was built in 1948 by Paramount. We took these photos before it closed, the site now the location of a Walgreens. It’s now in storage in Pennsylvania. A drawing of it was featured on poster for an early 1990s Society for Commercial Archaeology conference.
Photo source: www.agilitynut.com
Signage- backlit plastic
Pink painted roof, pink pavement
For photos of the move, look at dcsaint’s photostream on Flickr.
Here are some photos from a couple years back of the Terminal Luncheonette of Willow Grove, Pennsylvania.
Old backlit plastic sign. Missing second half of the arrow?
Brick construction with flat roof and overhang.
Excellent hot roast beef sandwich.
Double Horseshoe counter
Photo of a photo of the area in the late ’30s
On my trip to take some more shots of the Herald Building, I found some more neat spots.
Time warp tunnel.
Double Decker Buses
Railroad car by Pier 21
Future site of the Halifax farmer’s market
Tugboats
CSS Acadia
Rainbow over Dartmouth
Economy Shoe Shop, The Seahorse, The Diamond and The Toothy Moose
Arcade Terrazzo
Senior Citizens 5755 Club
Pardon the blurriness, these were shot through a glass brick
This building, the former home of the Chronicle Herald, is currently vacant. It was built after a 1912 fire destroyed the Dennis Building on Granville St.
The Coast says it will be torn down soon, though there are no concrete plans for what is to be built on the site.
A shame to see it go. I plan to go take more pictures before they knock her down.
This blog’s first posts were from this trip, but I never got around to posting the rest of the photos.
I took this trip shortly after graduation in early summer of 2008. We didn’t have any definite stops along the way, but managed to find some amazing old buildings. Architecturally, the area is much as it seems to have been in the early 20th century, although now many of the buildings are abandoned.
Enjoy!
East Side School
Cumberland, MD
Broken vitrolite facade
Republican Club
Abandoned house
No trespassing in the tree.
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Some quick and dirty sharpie sketches of Little Taverns
Do-Nut Diner – Front Royal Virginia (4″x6″)
This was originally part of the Donut Dinette chain. For more on the chain, look here.
Short Stop Diner- Wheaton, Maryland (4″x5″)
Diner Hunter 