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Article: Diner sandwiches revisited.(Hot and Hearty)
- Article from:
- Vegetarian Journal
- Article date:
- July 1, 2003
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A diner is "a restaurant usually resembling a dining car in shape."--Webster's Dictionary
THE DINER ERA
In the past decade there has been a revival of interest in diners. While most of us think of diners as pop culture--a piece of Americana, nostalgia in its purest form--they were the common man or woman's restaurant in a unique American style of architecture in the '50s. Though fast food chains replaced many of them in the '60s, diners are now considered classic example of American cultural history. In 1998 seven diners we added to the National Register of Historic Places.
Diners were not an offshoot of the railroad industry but an evolution ...