Mike Engle locates rare Valentine diner in Gardiner, Maine December 31, 2008

A Valentine Double Deluxe model. This image is from an article
published in the Summer 2003 issue of Kansas Heritage entitled
“Nothing Could Be Finer Than A Valentine Diner”.
A while back entrepid diner hunter Mike Engle ( co-author of “Diners of New York”) clued me in to a pdf file of an old newspaper clipping that was found in a search [...]

New scratch-built Diner models December 30, 2008

Star Lite Diner, Worcester Lunch Car No. 817, circa Dec. 1948
Photo courtesy of the Medford Police Department
I have been working off and on in my spare time since April of 2007 on 2 “HO” size scratch-built models. Originally I was just going to make a smaller version of a model I built back in 1995, [...]

A Diner Christmas December 19, 2008

Back in 1983, my pal Steve Repucci decided to give me a personalized Christmas gift. It was totally a surprise to me. It was a sheet of paper (or maybe two, I did not find the original copy for this post) neatly typed by Steve’s sister-in-law, Linda. It was a poem Steve wrote, basically rewording [...]

Lowell, Massachusetts’ Four Sister’s Owl Diner gets make-over December 14, 2008

The Owl Diner, circa mid-1980’s photo copyright Larry Cultrera
I got an email from Bob Higgins recently. He wanted to let me know that something was happening with the Four Sister’s Owl Diner in Lowell, Mass. He asked if I knew anything about it and that he thought he heard that Richard Gutman had possibly been [...]

The closing of Norm’s Diner was shortlived (as we had hoped!) December 9, 2008

Just last month we posted the news that Groton, Connecticut’s Norm’s Diner was closing. It was mentioned that owner Norm Brochu was looking for someone else to run the place after the previous manager Dan Logan decided not to continue running the diner and concentrate on his other business, Dano’s Pizzeria and Lounge. Well thanks [...]

Notes from the Hotline 12/6/08 December 6, 2008

Tim’s Diner, Leominster, Mass. Photo from early 1980’s

A more recent photo of Tim’s Diner, Leominster, Mass.
Breakfast at Tim’s Diner
Steve Repucci and I got together today for breakfast at Tim’s Diner in Leominster, Massachusetts. Tim’s is probably the smallest Silk City Diner in existence. Usually the Paterson Vehicle Company (manufacturers of Silk City Diners) built a [...]