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A quick history of Baltimore’s Hollywood Diner
- Published on Tuesday, 21 February 2012 18:37
The Hollywood Diner has been run by the Cheseapeak Foundation for at least the last twenty years, and it looks like its poor record of establishing and maintaining a sense of continuity with a string of managers has the city looking elsewhere for a steward.
Diner Days: A timeline of the Hollywood Diner
By Richard Gorelick | The Baltimore Sun
Last week, Baltimore City announced it will soon begin searching for a new operator of the Hollywood Diner. Its current incarnation, the Red Springs Café, will close at the end of March, according to city officials.
Here’s a look back at the diner’s history in Baltimore:
1981 — Location scouting begins for the MGM production “Diner,” which is to be filmed in and around Baltimore. The Hilltop Diner, the northwest Baltimore hangout that inspired Barry Levinson’s screenplay, has by now devolved into a liquor store, unrecognizable as its former self.