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Downtown recreates the drive-in experience
Randy Garbin (Latest News)Downtown Lafayette, Louisiana brought foot traffic back to downtown with a recreation of a drive-in. According to this report, viewers watched "The Never Ending Story." Acadiana's Multi-Media News Station
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Hoard and Historian
Randy Garbin (Preservation)Anyone visiting the Bus Stop Diner in Carteret, New Jersey will treat themselves not only to some good food in a renovated space, but a gallery of poster-sized vintage linen postcards featuring streamline and art deco Greyhound stations as well. My company performed those renovations in 2006, and...
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Gateway Diner update
Randy Garbin (Latest News)Yesterday I drove out to Trooper, Pennsylvania to meet with Steve Harwin of Diversified Diners at the forlorn Gateway Diner. Closed since 2003, this diner now stands in the way of a radical redevelopment of the property at the junctions of Route 363 and Ridge Pike in that town. At one time,...
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Shawmut Diner publicly for sale
Randy Garbin (Diner for Sale)Though this isn't the first time we've heard of the Shawmut Diner going on the market, it is the first time Phil and Celeste Paleologos have announced it publicly. It's a beautiful diner, kept in great condition by its owners and it deserves another 30 years or more serving the community.
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Tossing Mom off the roadside
Randy Garbin (Preservation)Another diner relegated to the history books. Photo by Michael Rosol. I just received word tonight from Woodbridge Patch that the demolition of Mom's Diner in Avenel, New Jersey is complete. You will no longer find it listed in the Diner Finder. Clearing this rare early 1950s Fodero diner from the...
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Elizaville Panoramas
Randy Garbin (The Road Geek)Thanks to the Photosynth iPhone app by Microsoft, we can capture some amazing panoramas. While the new(ish) iPhone5 has panorama software built into the camera, Photosynth allows for a much wider scope of image. While not practical, it is possible to capture an entire spherical image. Today we...
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Roadside Issue 33: Ambler Lights Up!
Randy Garbin (Roadside Magazine Back Issues)After setting up shop in Ambler, Pennsylvania, Roadside Magazine covered the town's burgeoning revival, which today is in full bloom (and we called it!). We also stop in for something to eat at the Bus Stop Diner in Carteret, New Jersey, and at O's Eatery in Chatham, New York. Roadside Magazine...
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Roadside Issue 34: Thrills in the Hills
Randy Garbin (Roadside Magazine Back Issues)Roadside Magazine visits the historic and charming Knoebel's Grove Amusement Park in Elysburg, Pennsylvania. Plus, we cover a diner exhibit in Napa, California, the justly famous Red Arrow Diner, in Manchester, New Hampshire, and we sample the classic pork roll Jersey sandwich! Click here or on...
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Can the Saco be saved?
Randy Garbin (Greetings From...)The Saco Drive-in bills itself as the second oldest ozoner in the country (presumably after Shankweiler's), and it too faces extinction thanks to the digital conversion besetting the industry. This video report from Channel 6 in Portland, Maine explores the issue in some detail. See the video...
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The Diner Buyers
Randy Garbin (Diner for Sale)So, you want to buy a diner? As it happens, I still field calls and emails from people looking to buy a real, stainless-steel clad, vintage diner. Not as many as I once did, but they still come in because I do maintain a "Diner for Sale" category at the Diner Finder. I no longer make it a point of...
Diner history made: DeRaffele builds double decker diner
- Published on Tuesday, 24 November 2009 09:21
In our interview with Phil DeRaffele in 2006, he spoke of this diner going to the Roslyn neighborhood in Queens, New York and he showed us the plans. Many times, we've wondered about the viability of such a beast, and now we'll get the chance to see how it works. Roadside wishes owner Lou Tiglias the best of luck with this new direction in diner design.
The new Landmark Diner on Northern Boulevard in Roslyn puts its most unusual offering front and center: an elevator.
The facade of the new double-decker - which opened Monday just 120 feet east of the old premises - is dominated by a windowed elevator that takes customers from the ground into what is, for diners, terra incognita: a second floor.
The Landmark, say its owners, is the first prefabricated double-decker diner in the country.
At 11:30 on its first morning of business, customers were oohing and ahhing over the swanky new decor. Matthew Korn of Roslyn, a regular, finished up an egg-white omelet and pronounced it just as good as the omelets in the old location.
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