New "alternate" diner on my layout

A prototype -sort of

THE AIRPLANE DINER

Penndel, Pa.

Very cool. I hope the patrons don't have to use the tiny airline bathrooms.

Very cool....creative!!! I'll have to share with my buddies at Revell Monogram!

Another beauty Lee, I love your posts. They send me into fits, full of silly ideas.

I don't remember where/if your town folk go out for ice cream, but an Americana art deco Giant Cone seems appropriate and might be a space saver of sorts.

 I saw a very old but complete, blue, Studebaker Commander(?) in the local restoration yard the other day, while on a bicycle ride. My first thought was that it belonged on Lee's layout. The Woodward cruise is this weekend in Detroit. I wonder how many times the old sleds will remind me of your layout.   

Very clever Lee.

Charlie:

Is that Constellation on top of the diner, or is the diner actually inside the fuselage, or both?

Matt

It was on top.

think it is now a gas station.

Haven't been on route 1 for about 15 years.

Used to run my 58 Plymouth Fury at Langhorn back then when it was a diner .  

There is also The Airplane Restaurant in Colorado Springs.  I had plans to eat there last time I was in that town but had to cancel.  Supposed to be fun.

Here are more airplanes in, on and around buildings. I like the whimsical ones.

Lee, you making fun of KTVU? "Wi Tu Lo" Don

Back in the boonies in northern Belize there is a big cargo jet that crashed at a remote improvised airstrip on a drug run from Colombia. I seem to recall it was a 707, but not sure. Anyway, a local family of Mennonites took the thing over and fixed up the fuselage as a residence. I left Belize in 1980 but as far as I know, the plane is still there and the Mennonites still live in it. 

How cool!  A Connie ... some are still flying ...

Kerrigan is correct - it's a Constellation. My memory was a little hazy on that (33 years will do that to you). It was not a drug plane - the airplane crashed at the airport in Belize City and the fuselage was bought by the Mennonites and hauled up to Blue Creek in the northern part of the country. It was installed on a ridge and used as a home for some time. Apparently it was later converted for use as a storage shed for a local mini-hydro project. It's still there. 

There was a big cargo plane hauling drugs that crashed at an improvised airstrip in Belize while I was living there - but it's not the same plane that became a Mennonite home in Blue Creek.

Here's a picture of the Blue Creek Constellation.