Here we are again – it’s November 29th and as always, I like to make note of this day, now 43 years ago when I shot my first 35mm photograph of a diner. There I was on my second road trip to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, two days after Thanksgiving visiting my pal Steve Repucci who I had helped moved just short of 3 months earlier to the capitol of the Keystone State. Myself and my brother Rick as well as friend Scott Drown had driven down from Massachusetts the day before, the Friday after Thanksgiving and basically hung out that afternoon in Steve’s apartment. We decided to go to breakfast the next morning at the nearest diner to where Steve lived which turned out to be the By-Pass Diner on Herr Street. This is when I “broke my cherry” so to speak and turned my camera lens toward taking this first tentative photo…
The By-Pass Diner, Harrisburg, PA
November 29, 1980 photo by Larry Cultrera
Since then I have photographed just short of 900 different diners throughout a good portion of the eastern United States, from Maine to Virginia and Tennessee as well as a few in Florida and one in Georgia and into the midwest area counting a handful in Ohio, Michigan and Illinois.
In this blog post I want to highlight the diners that I have photographed in the Capitol region of Pennsylvania. I will start with another view of the By-Pass Diner…
By-Pass Diner – Harrisburg,
February 19, 1984
Dempsey’s Diner – Harrisburg,
April, 1987
Dempsey’s Diner – Hershey,
April 19, 1987
Ray’s Diner (AKA East Shore Diner) –
Harrisburg, February 19, 1984
Riverview Diner – Harrisburg,
March 20, 1982
West Shore Diner – Lemoyne,
August 9, 1981
Decoven Diner – Duncannon,
November 28, 1981
Trail Diner – Duncannon,
August, 1981
Blue Diner – West Hanover Township,
March 22, 1982
Bill’s Friendly Diner – Hummlestown,
April 3, 1983
Highspire Diner (AKA Friendly Diner) – Highspire,
March 27, 1982
230 Family Diner – Middletown,
February 26, 1982
Kuppy’s Diner – Middletown,
May 1, 1987
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