Three prospective buyers are interested in Pitman's beleaguered Broadway Theatre, the historic movie house's court-appointed trustee said yesterday.

The old-time cinema had to shut down after U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Judith Wizmur converted its case from a Chapter 11 reorganization to a Chapter 7 liquidation on March 29. Voorhees lawyer Andrew Sklar was appointed trustee of the theater.

"I've shown it to several parties," he said. "It looks like there's some interest in keeping this as a live theater as opposed to a movie theater."

It's a diner in a diner state, at one of South Jersey's most well-known spots, distinguished by a classic red neon sign.

Maybe that's why it's so hard for the owner of Olga's Diner, John Stavros, to acknowledge that the landmark, which has been in his family since 1960, is actually for sale.

Despite a listed asking price of $9.75 million - or $75,000 per month for a lease - Stavros appears to be a reluctant potential multimillionaire.

"It would be my saddest day and my happiest day," said Stavros, 74.

Abandoned buildings, country churches and modern constructions combine in an online presentation about Southern Culture.

David Wharton, director of documentary projects for the Center for the Study of Southern Culture, explores this relationship between the past and the present in his photo essay “Roadside Architecture.”

If you were to plot the popularity of an architectural style on a Wall Street chart, you'd first see it take a quick nosedive from near- universal acclaim to near-universal distaste. After 50 years or so of hugging the bottom, it would start a little upward tick with small-scale rediscovery and "What were they thinking?"-style wonderment.

In another decade, you'd find it rocketing up through rekindled appreciation and into widespread admiration again.

Shortly before noon yesterday, Joe Chiodo stood with his back against what used to be the window counter in what used to be his bar. The windows were boarded, scrawled on the outside, "Bye Joe, we love you!"

The doors of Chiodo's Tavern opened for the last time in 58 years at 11 a.m. for an auction of all of the stuff that used to hang on the bar's walls and ceiling. The line was so long it mazed from the door to the far end of the bar and back again, serpentine-style, so people waiting to register to bid could be in from the cold, and still there was a long line on the sidewalk waiting to get in.

It's not a classic car or parts, but it's a significant element of the auto culture.

The diner -- with its polished aluminum walls, chrome stools and Formica counters -- is as vital to car enthusiasts as gasoline, and soon Hershey's Antique Auto Museum will have one within its walls.

The restored Floinn Cafe will reopen inside the museum April 24 during a ceremony that begins at 2 p.m. Doughnuts and coffee will be served.

White Plains, NY - An Elmsford diner got its day in the sun this week when Samuel L. Jackson and Edie Falco plopped into a booth overlooking Route 9A to film a scene in their upcoming movie, Freedomland – also starring Julianne Moore.

The Red Fox Diner is the latest Westchester County location to “star” in the upcoming Freedomland film, based on a best-selling novel by Richard Price. The crew shot two days last week at the old police station in New Rochelle and are also spending time in several locations on the streets of Yonkers.

Howard Johnson's, one of the last functioning remnants of the rough-and tumble, Runyonesque Times Square of yesteryear, will be torn down sometime this year, the New York Post reported April 19.

The restaurant and the land it sits on, a prime site on the northwest corner of 46th Street and Broadway, was recently sold for "more than $100 million" by longtime owner Kenneth Rubinstein to Jeff Sutton's Wharton Acquisitions. Sutton plans to flatten the four-story edifice and replace it with a gleaming new retail outlet.

The 90-by-75-foot screen of the Bowl Drive-in Theater on the Boston Post Road was lowered to the ground by a demolition crew.

It was the last physical obstacle in the way of a 20-acre industrial park planned by property owner Joseph E. Celentano.

Opening in 1953, the Bowl Drive-In enjoyed its heyday that same decade. With the overall decline of drive-in entertainment, it’s last gasp was showing X-rated movies before it closed in 1984.