Diner Hotline Blog Celebrates 1 Year Anniversary! October 31, 2008

It is almost hard to believe that I posted my first entry 1 year ago today! Since then I have made 118 posts and this blog has garnered over 23,000 hits. It has been more successful and more widely received than I could have imagined. As I mentioned in the very first post, this blog [...]

Notes from the Hotline, 10/23/2008 October 23, 2008

Rhode Island’s Liberty Elm Diner receives
nice review from Providence Journal

Liberty Elm Diner, photo copyright April, 2008 by Larry Cultrera
Check out this great review from Journal Food Editor Gail Ciampa of Providence’s own Liberty Elm Diner.
Liberty Elm diner mixes classic look, local flavor
PROVIDENCE — The Liberty Elm is a diner with a difference. Now that may [...]

Diner Hotline (and yours truly) mentioned in Newspaper article about a new restaurant to be opened in Medford, Massachusetts by Maury & Tom Carroll October 16, 2008

Carroll’s Restaurant, circa 1982 photo by Larry Cultrera
Todays Medford Transcript (Massachusetts) has an article on Maury & Tom Carroll’s latest endeavor, their new restaurant which is to be called 55 High, (the address is 55 High Street). The interior of the new establishment will be a very contemporary, wonderfully appointed space featuring upholstered furniture, wood & granite surfaces as [...]

A little glimpse into my Diner postcard collection October 9, 2008

I have been collecting old (and new) postcards for around 30 years or so. It started with some old postcards of my hometown of Medford, Massachusetts. After that I expanded into some postcard views of things like the former Pleasure Island Amusement Park, an early “Disneyesque” theme park that operated from around 1960-69 and was [...]

Philadelphia’s Domino Diner burns in July, formerly Carroll’s Diner of Medford, Mass. October 1, 2008

Domino Diner, circa 2005 – Larry Cultrera

Carroll’s Diner, 1948-1962, Courtesy of the Carroll family
Intrepid Diner Hunter Mike Engel of NYDINERSDOTCOM (see my blogroll) left a comment on my flickr site, specifically on my photo of the Domino Diner. His comment reported that this 1948 vintage O’Mahony diner (with a 1963 updating from Swingle Diners) had [...]