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Silk City Diners was a division of the Paterson Wagon Company, later known at Paterson Vehicle Company, established by Everett Abbott Cooper and based in Paterson, New Jersey, which produced about 1,500 diners from 1926 until 1966.
Haven Brothers Diner in Providence, Rhode Island is one of the oldest restaurants on wheels in America and was founded in 1893 (although their truck says 1888) as a horse-drawn lunch wagon. [ 1 ] History
Jerry O'Mahony (1890–1969) of Bayonne, New Jersey, is credited by some [by whom?] to have made the first "diner". [2] In 1912, the first lunch wagon built by Jerry and Daniel O'Mahoney and John Hanf was bought for $800 by restaurant entrepreneur Michael Griffin and operated at Transfer Station in Hudson County, New Jersey.
Dec. 12—IN THE DARK of night while under freezing temperatures, a Bow moving company delivered an 80-year-old diner to its new home in downtown Concord as a centerpiece of the city's Arts Alley ...
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A Mountain View Diner will last a lifetime" was the company motto. Their pre- World War II diner models usually incorporated late Art Deco styling, few were produced during the war years. Post-war, streamline styling then in vogue was used.
Alabama: Payne’s Sandwich Shop and Soda Fountain. Scottsboro. This historic full-service sandwich shop and soda fountain has the quintessential '50s diner look and dates back over 100 years. The ...
Tierney Dining Cars was an American brand of lunch wagons at the beginning of the 20th century. Its origins can be traced to 1895, when the business founder Patrick J. Tierney began to build truck-based cars modeled after railroad dining cars.