Tag: diners
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Then and now: The Oasis Diner
A look at an old stainless-steel diner that got a second life in Plainfield, Indiana.
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single frame: America’s Diner
Polaroid photo of a brand new Denny’s diner.
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Published: My photo of a stainless-steel 1950s diner on US 40 in Plainfield, Indiana
A photo I made in 2009 of a 1950s diner on US 40 in Indiana was published in a book about restored Indiana historic structures.
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Sons at diners photographed with box cameras
It was an intriguing idea, to photograph my sons in front of diners with box cameras. Too bad I got just two photos made before they both grew up!
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Captured: Oasis Diner
It’s a gleaming stainless-steel 1954 Mountain View diner, shipped by rail from the New Jersey factory and opened for business on US 40, the old National Road, just east of Plainfield, Indiana. It served there for more than 50 years before hard times befell it and it closed. That’s how I found it when I…
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Goodbye, Whitehouse Restaurant
Logansport’s Whitehouse Restaurant closed its doors for good on Saturday after 73 years. Little family-run diners used to be typical; every town had at least one. They began disappearing in the late 1970s, by my estimation, as fast-food and diner-style chain restaurants really caught on. I think that the wide availability of places like McDonald’s…
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Straightened, widened, and moved
My last post mentioned how the National Road and US 40 has been repeatedly straightened, leveled, widened, and outright moved. As I began this trip west down the National Road from Indianapolis, I came across three out of four of those right away. This image from Bing Maps shows the road around the Marion-Hendricks county…