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Diversified Diners ships another restored gem
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- Published on Friday, 09 July 2010 19:39
On July 7th this 1949 Silk City Diner made it’s way across northern Ohio to Ottawa Ohio for a German entrepreneur. Matthias Kaplanow who fled East Germany as a youth attended Rhodes State College in the 1980’s (recipient of the Outstanding Alumni Award 2010). During this time, he adopted the German populated town of Ottawa as his second home. Touring the East Coast of the United States, he discovered diners and for many years dreamt of owning one. Last year, he purchased a diner from Diversified Diners and had it restored to fulfill his dream, calling it the Hometown Diner.
The diner last operated as the Silver Diner in London KY from the 1970’s until 2007 when Steve Harwin of Diversified Diners purchased it.
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