Retro Roadmap - Your Source for the Vintage, Retro and Cool Old Places worth visiting!
Your source for the Vintage, Retro and Cool Old Places worth visiting!
Vintage diners - not just restaurants that call themselves diners.
While we couldn’t eat at the Triangle Diner in Winchester VA, how could we not stop and check up on the progress of this 1948 vintage O’Mahony diner under meticulous renovation? Especially when there was free parking and restroom facilities at the “restaurant” next door (Every road scholar knows where that arrow points – even [...]
While we had planned plenty of stops planned for our Retro Roadweekend away, we hadn’t planned on seeing the bright neon signs of the Amherst Diner in Winchester, VA. But as soon as we did we knew where we were eating breakfast the next morning! Not a diner in the strict “built off-site in a [...]
While the vintage neon sign would’ve made me snap a photo, I have to thank Diners of Pennsylvania author and FB pal Kyle Weaver for recommending a visit to Kuppy’s Diner in Middletown, PA. Retro Roadhusband and I were en route to a long overdue weekend away, and what better way to kick off a [...]
Why am I calling the Reading Diner the “Diet Diner”? Because while it’s fabulously restored and maintained, it doesn’t serve any food! Instead is serves as a great addition to the Boyertown Musuem of Historic Vehicles, in Boyertown, PA. Some background: A vintage 1938 O’Mahony diner, the Reading Diner was originally open in Exeter, PA. [...]
Lookit what was waiting for me this morning at my Corporate Cube- how cool! Now I just have to find out what swell coworker left it there for me…! Mystery Solved! Work pal and all around good guy Paul Altobelli dropped this at my desk as a Thank You for hepping him to the fascinating [...]
There’s still time to sign up for the Society of Commercial Archeology‘s South Jersey Diner (and more) tour on Saturday September 17! Tour Highlights Include: Historic Jersey Roads! o Journey parts of U.S. Route 130 – before I-295 and the New Jersey Turnpike, there was only Route 130, serving early suburbanites and East Coast travelers, [...]
The Day and Night Diner on Route 20 in downtown Palmer MA is Worcester Lunch Car Diner #781. Built in 1944 it is currently open for breakfast and lunch.
We were in Ardmore, PA the other night so RetroRoadhusband and I decided to see what the Chung Sing restauarant AKA “diner that is actually a Chinese restaurant” was all about. Since we needed to grab a bite to eat it seemed like a perfect excuse for a little RetroRoadmap investigation. Let’s check it out [...]