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With over 1500 restaurants in the US and a dozen other unfortunate counties, his signs are everywhere - towering over freeway off-ramps, lining downto...Written on 05 February 20122 comment(s) · Read More
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Highway 99, was the main north–south highway of "The West" until 1964. Beginning in Calexico, California at the Baja California, Mexico and U.S. sou...
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Here in Upstate New York, there are a lot of (potentially) beautiful old Main Streets, lined mostly or completely with handsome old brick buildings fr...
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Here are two views of another of Virginia's "Waysides," which once served motorists the way "rest areas" do now on the interstates. Ho...
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“The Artist” is a charming movie, deserving of all the Golden Globes awards it received, and then some. (Watching that otherwise uninspired awar...
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Coney Island rising
02-07-2012
It's no Luna Park, but happily, more people continue to rediscover the charms of Coney Island. Out of towners flock to... Read more
A faster train to Rutland
02-07-2012
Vermont has embraced passenger rail service like no other state. As much fun as it is to drive through its... Read more
Ride Trains: Flying on Amtrak's Cardinal
02-05-2012
Amtrak train takes in scenery between New York and Chicago Amtrak's Cardinal is not a big train — just one sleeping... Read more
Miss Albany closes -- Diner in danger
02-03-2012
UPDATE: The diner will actually close this weekend, February 12. You still have time to visit for one final meal.... Read more
Chagrin Falls shows soft heart for its hardware store
01-29-2012
Who says that the internet hasn't helped the local business? It's all in how you use it. In the Era of... Read more
Hollywood to theaters: Upgrade or die
01-26-2012
As if small, independent and historic theaters have enough to worry about. Soon they won't even have any films to... Read more
Classic downtown theater preserved and repurposed
01-24-2012
When one thinks of Los Angeles, the notion of a traditional downtown isn't the first image to come to mind.... Read more
Pittsfield diner stays in the family
01-17-2012
Good to see this diner stalwart still going strong. 55 years later, Pittsfield diner is still all in the family By Dick... Read more
Libby's goes Greek
01-17-2012
Would it be too much to ask that the new owners simply preserve this rare Worcester diner and keep it... Read more
New hardware for Amtrak
01-13-2012
For all the money that Congress and the President tossed around since 2009, you'd think Amtrak would have all-new-everything by... Read more
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Show me the breakfast
Best Breakfast Eats in Missouri by Ann M. Hazelwood Reedy Press, St. Louis, Missouri, $14.95 Ann M. Hazelwood is a show-me native... Read more
Herd on the Highway
We originally published this article in 2002 in issue #3 of By The Way magazine, and republish it in honor... Read more
Customer pays bill with loving video tribute
It's a rather dizzying tour of Daddypop's Tumble Inn Diner in Claremont, New Hampshire, but if you want to see... Read more
Sundae Driving
Despite consolidation, a 1930's-era regional dairy makes transition into 21st century intact "Gosh, they just like 'em all, you know?" That's how... Read more
Five Days Five Diners
Five day road rip to Boston. Combining my two loves – boxing and diners – made for the near-perfect working... Read more
A Giant Pickle Barrel for Teenie Weenie Cartoonist
Nearly restored, Grand Marias's tribute to one its own, William Donahey, creator of the Teenie Weenies. (Photo courtesy of the... Read more
Atlantic City Gamble: A fine idea on paper
Every Father's Day, I like to take my daughter on a train ride. This year I had the bright idea... Read more
Roadside Approved Link: OnlynDetroit.com
Because of its current state of unfortunate affairs and its rich industrial and cultural history, we are in search of... Read more
Charlie's Reopens!
Kicked off its long-time location by a greedy landlord, Charlie's Diner sat on blocks for three years as owner... Read more
Hope runs out: The American Diner Museum unloads i…
Diner Museum diner blowout sale underway! As regular readers know, this website has for the past ten years kept a close,... Read more
In the Temple of Pie
Good pie nourishes not only the body but also the spirit. It requires generous measures of dedication, heaping cupfuls of... Read more
Six Days a Week
Story and Photos by Helen Anne Gately "You tryin' to stay out of trouble?," Scott greets Dan as he enters the... Read more
Dan's Diner: How to get into roadside heaven
We had some discussion of late about the idea of creating the opposite of the Lou-Roc Award, given to an... Read more
My Brothers' Place: The New Lord of the Rings
Onion rings. Thanks to some genius, most places now serve those awful, bloated, pillow-like "beer-battered" onion rings. Everywhere from Applebee's... Read more
Atlantic City Gamble: Seeking charm and a ride bac…
Finally recharged, we had a few more items on the agenda: More beach, amusement park for Roadside Girl, dinner at... Read more
The Jersey Shore Uncovered: A Revealing Season on …
By Peter Genovese Rutgers University Press, Rutgers, 2003 $14.95, 225 pages, hardcover Genovese does it again. By combining his true reporter nature... Read more