Diner for Sale: Dan's Diner Salvage drops price on Rich's Annex

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Written by Randy Garbin

We've seen this one appear on Craig's List before for $32,000! Our guess is that the ersatz museum director is hot to unload this burden. At “only” $5,000, we would remind any potential buyer that you would also be saving the seller at least $15,000 in disposal costs if it doesn't sell, netting a sale of at least $20,000. The former Rich's Annex is a large well-preserved shell of what might become a diner again, providng you invest another quarter-million or more in its restoration and another half million just to set it up. We will bet that this listing will disappear soon after we publish this post.

1932 antique Worcester Lunch Car Diner 14 x 65 Newburyport landmark - $5000 (cranston, rhode island)

Diner 708 built by the Worcester Lunch Car Company of Worcester, Massachusetts in 1932. This diner is currently on wood blocks in Cranston, Rhode Island. The size of the diner is approximately 14 feet wide and 65 feet long. It shrink wrapped. The original interior includes counter, back bar w/ refrigerator & grill hood, stained glass leaded windows, beveled glass movable windows, tile floors and tile walls. The gumwood veneer ceiling needs to be replaced and there are no original oak tables or chairs. The counter has seating for 12 stools and the large dining room could accommodate 65 customers at tables with four chairs each.

Rich's Annex Diner was nominated and accepted to the "Save America's Treasure" program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. www.saveamericastreasures.org [Editor's note: This meant that that in 2002 the American Diner Museum received a grant of $500 to help restore the diner.]

The design of Worcester Lunch Car #708 wass patterned on the style of railroad dining cars of the early 20th century, characterized by the long rectangular shape and consisting of oak wood stick construction reinforced by iron framework and platform. The upper area of two level roof arches down on both ends and project substantially beyond the walls of the left and right elevations to create protective overhangs. The front and rear roof areas have a band of monitor windows separating the upper and lower levels of the roof. The lower roof arches down from the monitor windows to the front and rear elevations.

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