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Diner Hotline Weblog
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Diners, Drive-in Restaurants and other roadside stuff
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Notes from the Hotline, 9-6-2010
Say Goodbye to the Bel-Aire Diner? Me about 20 years ago in front of the Bel-Aire Diner photo by Steve Repucci As I mentioned in the last post, plans are moving forward with the redevelopment of the Bel-Aire Diner site on U.S. Rte. 1 north in Peabody, Mass. I also said there was conflicting info [...]
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Notes from the Hotline, 8-28-2010
Diner Hotline meets Diner Hunter Larry Cultrera and Spencer Stewart inside the Portside Diner photo courtesy of Michael & Spencer Stewart I have known Spencer Stewart for a half-dozen years. He contacted me back in 2004 to let me know how he was an avid Diner Buff (at the young age of 14) and that he [...]
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The Story of the The Abandoned Luncheonette, AKA the Rosedale Diner
Daryl Hall & John Oates’ Abandoned Luncheonette, 1973 Atlantic Records Album Cover Not long after I started the Diner Hotline Weblog, I mentioned that I would write about the “Diner in my Header” (the photo at the top of my blog), see… http://dinerhotline.wordpress.com/2007/11/07/diner-in-my-header/. I know a lot of “Diner People” were familiar with a similar image [...]
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Coming Soon to Diner Hotline…. the history of the Rosedale Diner and how it came to be The Abandoned Luncheonette
Larry Cultrera finding The Abandoned Luncheontette, February 26, 1982 In an early post I did on November 7, 2007 (“The Diner in my Header”), I mentioned I would update a story I wrote in 1991 for a “Diner Hunting” column in the 4th edition of Roadside Magazine about finding The Abandoned Luncheonette, the diner on [...]
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Rhode Island’s Hot Weiners (or Hot Wieners)
Richard Vittorioso sent me a message back in early June, right after I posted about visiting the A&W Drive-In restaurant in Smithfield, RI over Memorial Day weekend. Richard and I recently became acquainted in the last year and a half during the time he was writing the autobiography on his life as a radio disk jockey around the [...]
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Diner Stools for sale!
I was contacted by Jon Femia of Connecticut who recently obtained 3 vintage diner stools. He sent me some photos of these stools and they look to be in near perfect condition. Jon says he does not know where or what diner they came from and would prefer to sell them as a” lot” ( not [...]
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