Retro Diner Postcards
Road trips are starting to seem a little pointless. These days it seems like you can go to pretty much any small to medium sized American town along a highway and it’s the same as the last one. Main Street USA consists of a bunch of chain restaurants and gas stations, and it has been cloned in to every town in every state. There was a time, though, when family owned diners were a lot more prevalent, and the Coffee and Chrome website celebrates this era. It features a museum’s worth of postcards from retro diners. Marvel at their unique décor, like this little number the website describes as “the only bar in the world with Elephant Man’s disease.”Take a look at the old Cliff House before it was transformed into the rather nondescript tourist trap it is today.
The Scandinavian side of me really wants to have a dine in the swank looking Fjords Smorg-ette. It sounds very cute. I hope they put the Rakfisk in little dresses.
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I ate at the Cliff House several times in the early ’60’s. It was very formal with white tablecloths and tuxedoed waiters, but the food was very good. I used to order the abalone which I think cost about $4.00 and came with creamed spinach, a baked potato (with the obligate sour cream and giant pepper mill) and iceberg lettuce salad with Russian dressing. I am old.
Comment left on July 26, 2008 @ 10:44 pm