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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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Posted at 2010-07-10 11:02:25
Does that truck-cab match the diner's interior?
Is that just karma or a relflection of Matthias Kaplanow's sense of esthetics?
Visitors will notice some subtle changes to the site since Monday night. Because the upgrade and redesign that I implemented last November didn't go as smoothly as I had hoped, I opted to start from scratch instead. Two months later, the site looks pretty solid so far, and had the added bonus of a new, easier-to-use system for our Riding Shotgun bloggers.
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Posted at 2010-07-10 11:02:25
Does that truck-cab match the diner's interior?
Is that just karma or a relflection of Matthias Kaplanow's sense of esthetics?
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