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It is generally accepted that the name "diner" as opposed to "lunch wagon" was not widely used before 1925. The company produced 651 diners between 1906 and 1957, when manufacturing ceased. All of Worcester Lunch Car's assets were auctioned in 1961.
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.
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.
A diner is a type of restaurant found across the United States and Canada, as well as parts of Western Europe and Australia.Diners offer a wide range of cuisine, mostly American cuisine, a casual atmosphere, and, characteristically, a combination of booths served by a waitstaff and a long sit-down counter with direct service, in the smallest simply by a cook.
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 ...
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.
Diners hold a special place in America’s food history, becoming a popular restaurant choice in the first half of the 20th century but with few of them remaining in their original form today ...
MASON — A 122-year-old former train station turned beloved breakfast and lunch spot is for sale. The Mason Depot Diner, a family-owned and operated restaurant on Mason Street, went on the market ...