Notes from the Hotline, 3-29-09 March 29, 2009

More info about NEBA Roast Beef restaurants
I recently got a comment on the blog from Glenn Dispoto of Hollywood, FL. He was referring to my post from Odds and Ends from the Hotline, 7/3/08. This post featured some of my roadside related (non-diner) photos. I ran a photo of a former NEBA Roast Beef restaurant located in Quincy, Mass. [...]

Camden, NJ’s Elgin Diner in trouble March 22, 2009

Elgin Diner, photo copyright June 1993 by Larry Cultrera
I saw a news item about the Elgin Diner of Camden, NJ last night and it was not good news for this beautiful 1958 vintage Kullman diner. According to the article it said the diner has been closed for some time and that the parking lot behind [...]

Local Roadside Memories slide presentation postponed March 18, 2009

Unfortunately my slide presentation slated for tonight was postponed at the last minute due to a physical plant emergency which basically closed the Medford Public Library for the evening. Barbara Kerr of the Library and also of the Medford Historical Society (who was hosting the program) called me earlier to say that there was a [...]

Georgetown Diner aka Randy’s Roast Beef aka Fat Boy’s Diner March 12, 2009

Randy’s Roast Beef, photo copyright circa 1981 by Larry Cultrera
Back in late 1980 and early 1981 when I first started documenting diners in northern New England I was basically covering as much ground in the Metro-Boston area as humanly possible (being that I lived here). I was doing a pretty good job of photographing all the diners I [...]

Newspaper article featuring Mill Pond Diner and Dick Gutman’s Diner exhibit at Culinary Arts Museum March 5, 2009

Mill Pond Diner of Wareham, Mass., photo copyright – Larry Cultrera
A newspaper article appeared in the March 4th edition of Cape Cod Times and capecodonline.com written by Gwenn Friss features the Mill Pond Diner of Wareham, Mass. and an interview with Dick Gutman (for historical perspective) with an extensive mention of the Diner exhibit at [...]

Review of John Baeder Retrospective Video March 2, 2009

A couple of weeks ago (Ok, maybe it was almost a month ago) I mentioned about the video retrospective on my good friend John Baeder’s career, (see my post from February 5th below). For those of you who do not know John, he is the premier painter of diners, his paintings done in the photorealist style have [...]