Diner for 'Wrong side of the tracks'....(finished 1/8/14)

Looks real nice.

That's good-lookin' and good-cookin' Dave!

Love it!

Dave,

Nice Interior!

Dave

Being from Jersey, the home of the road side diner, you did a super job with this one.

Actually it reminds me very much of one located in Middletown, Pa.

It is so cozy you can almost flip your own eggs if sitting at the counter.

My kind of place.

I've been to Billy Goats several times and always order a Pepsi with my cheeseburger.

"Swamp cooler"...I thought those hung off of old car windows....

Nice work Dave, but I might humbly suggest a cracked window pane or two via a scribed line on the glazing....just a thought- but what do I know{ask my wife}.

Good idea.......

I had sealed the building to foundation so I had to be careful and not pop the window out.....but you get the idea!!!!

Thanks All!

PS....yes...we had a auto swamp cooler on our 64 Studebaker wagon....but they made them for buildings too......but they only work well in arid places.....we lived in LA at the time!

Looks nice!

Looks like a winner .

     Norm

Lol, dang that was fast! Ok, yet another offering from way left field...only because I think you'll like the idea.

Pull out the pin vise and make a bullet hole in that cracked area?...really seedy side of town...

You are definitely on a roll, Dave. Great job!

Jerrman

Very nice.

jackson

Calling it finished......for now......

Until I start building the entire block this one is done. I made the sign today. Named for a local Diner that my Grandmother scolded me for going to when I could have stopped at her house to eat!!!

I finished up the interior....adding some plates (with food) in front of the customers and some stainless to walls.

Sign is double sided, plastic sheet and square strip stock...painted and sign I created in CorelDraw glued to it.

When I install it on the 'street' I will add more junk, litter and details like trash cans around back.

Thanks for looking!!!

So very cool, Dave....well done!

Totally unrealistic!  It's too good looking to be on the wrong side of the tracks!

Seriously, very nice job on the diner.

--Greg

I can smell the fries grease aroma steaming through that stack.  Very nice.  Looks cozy.  Are the waitresses friendly?

Dave...Great job!  I really like the details....especially the interior.

Alan

Great job, Dave!  You really nailed the look of this type of diner.

Art

Super job, Dave! Proof that plastic buildings don't always have to look like plastic buildings.

It made me hungry just looking at your pics. 

Fine job Dave. This place needs a few calendars though.

William Least Heat-Moon said in his book Blue Highways that he could judge a diner by the number of calendars on the wall. The best ones had three or four.

Pete

"Here's how Blue Highways reveals the secret to eating well on the road: "There is one almost infallible way to find honest food at just prices in blue-highway America: count the wall calendars in a cafe.

No calendar: Same as an interstate pit stop. One Calendar: Preprocessed food assembled in New Jersey. Two calendars: Only if fish trophies present. Three calendars: Can't miss on the farm-boy breakfasts. Four calendars: Try the ho-made pie too. Five calendars: Keep it under your hat, or they'll franchise.

One time I found a six-calendar cafe in the Ozarks, which served fried chicken, peach pie, and chocolate malts, that left me searching for another ever since. I've never seen a seven-calendar place. But old-time travelers - road men in a day when cars had running boards and lunchroom windows said AIR COOLED in blue letters with icicles dripping from the tops - those travelers have told me the golden legends of seven-calendar cafes."

No maps are needed to travel Blue Highways. Just make sure you eat your veggies and don't make Grandma smack you with that big wooden spoon of hers and enjoy your pie."

Plus a paper building can look ......good!

(I should have noted my White Castle thread as the paper reference)

That's a fine looking diner.  The interior looks great!

Thanks for sharing.