Tag: Historic Diner Cars

5 properties

  • Worcester Lunch Car #806 has had a long life and many names but continues to attract new entrepreneurs who want to make a go of the restaurant business

    South Providence | Built: 1947 | Decade: 1940-1949

  • One of two remaining Sterling Streamliner diners manufactured in the late 1930s by the J.B. Judkins Company left in the country

    Pawtucket, RI | Built: 1941 | Redeveloped: 1987 | Decade: 1940-1949

  • This 70-year-old diner car sat on blocks for 10 years before being restored and reopened as a classic breakfast and lunch diner

    West Side | Built: 1947 | Redeveloped: 2011–2013 | Decade: 1940-1949

  • A 90-year-old eatery is demolished, only to find two diner cars buried within a wooden structure built-up over time

    Chepachet, RI | Built: 1907, 1929 | Demolition: 2022 | Decade: 1920-1929

  • A 60-year history slinging good, hearty diner food evaporated into a cyclone of legal battles. The diner itself is still unrestored.

    Smith Hill | Built: 1937 | Redeveloped: 2016 | Decade: 1930-1939