Deepwater Diner- Carney’s Point, NJ

The Deepwater Diner was built in 1958 by Silk City- as of our last visit, it was in great shape, with solid tasty diner food. It’s attached to a 1950s-era truck stop.

Kuppy’s Diner – Middletown, PA

Kuppy’s was built in 1938 by Ward and Dickinson. Despite it being bricked over, the diner is nicely preserved inside and has excellent food.

Another Ward and Dickinson

The Vale-Rio Diner, Phoenixville, PA

The Vale-Rio diner was built in 1948 by Paramount. We took these photos before it closed, the site now the location of a Walgreens. It’s now in storage in Pennsylvania. A drawing of it was featured on poster for an early 1990s Society for Commercial Archaeology conference.

Photo source: www.agilitynut.com

Signage- backlit plastic

Pink painted roof, pink pavement

For photos of the move, look at dcsaint’s photostream on Flickr.

Article about the move

Terminal Luncheonette – Willow Grove, PA

Here are some photos from a couple years back of the Terminal Luncheonette of Willow Grove, Pennsylvania.

Old backlit plastic sign. Missing second half of the arrow?

Brick construction with flat roof and overhang.

Excellent hot roast beef sandwich.

Double Horseshoe counter

Photo of a photo of the area in the late ’30s

Halifax- December 11, 2009

On my trip to take some more shots of the Herald Building, I found some more neat spots.

Time warp tunnel.

Double Decker Buses

Railroad car by Pier 21

Future site of the Halifax farmer’s market

Tugboats

CSS Acadia

Rainbow over Dartmouth

Economy Shoe Shop, The Seahorse, The Diamond and The Toothy Moose

Arcade Terrazzo

Senior Citizens 5755 Club

Herald Building supplement

Pardon the blurriness, these were shot through a glass brick

The Herald Building- Halifax Nova Scotia

This building, the former home of the Chronicle Herald, is currently vacant. It was built after a 1912 fire destroyed the Dennis Building on Granville St.
The Coast says it will be torn down soon, though there are no concrete plans for what is to be built on the site.

A shame to see it go. I plan to go take more pictures before they knock her down.

Western Maryland Trip – 2008

This blog’s first posts were from this trip, but I never got around to posting the rest of the photos.

I took this trip shortly after graduation in early summer of 2008. We didn’t have any definite stops along the way, but managed to find some amazing old buildings. Architecturally, the area is much as it seems to have been in the early 20th century, although now many of the buildings are abandoned.

Enjoy!

East Side School

Cumberland, MD

Broken vitrolite facade

Republican Club

Abandoned house

No trespassing in the tree.

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Some quick and dirty sharpie sketches of Little Taverns

Do-Nut Diner – Front Royal Virginia (4″x6″)
This was originally part of the Donut Dinette chain. For more on the chain, look here.

Short Stop Diner- Wheaton, Maryland (4″x5″)

Philly Diners

These photos were sent to me by my father, who recently took a trip with musician Barry Louis Polisar to Philadelphia to visit Nancy Heller, Professor of Art History at the University of the Arts, Philadelphia.

Some interior shots of the Melrose Diner before it gets re-done. The impending remodel was confirmed by staff at the diner.
This site has a good exterior photo.

The clock which used to hang above the Melrose counter until the mural was installed, I believe sometime in the 1970s. I bought and restored the clock after finding it listed on ebay several years ago.

Polock Johnny’s Polish Sausage- Baltimore, Maryland

Broad Street and Tasker. Tavern neon – Philadelphia

Museo Del Jamon – Ham Museum

Broad Street Diner, an old Fodero