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1950s Diner Back in Willimantic |
By Cara Rubinsky |Associated Press Writer | February 17, 2005
HARTFORD, Conn. -- After three decades and a 120-mile roundtrip, the Windham Diner is headed home to Willimantic.
Developer Michael Haddad jumped at the chance to purchase the diner a distant relative once owned, even though he had to move it 60 miles from Waterbury to Willimantic.
"I'm an impulse buyer," Haddad said. "Willimantic has had its problems in the past, and I thought this would be a nice touch."
He paid $10,000 for the stainless steel diner and twice that amount to move it from Waterbury, where it sat shuttered for five years. |
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Waterbury Diner Takes Road Trip |
The Waterbury Connecticut Republican American
Copyright 2005 | Thursday, Feb. 17
Willimantic businessman loaded a 30-ton piece of Waterbury atop a
flatbed trailer Wednesday and prepared to haul it early this morning
to a new home in the Thread City.
If all went as planned, South Main Street's former Valley Diner set
out at 2 a.m. today on Interstate 84 for downtown Willimantic,
arriving around 6 a.m. in the community where the decades-old diner
is believed to have originally landed around 1950.
It's also where Mike Haddad plans to re-open the remodeled eatery
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Rose Bowl to beome retail store?
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Randolph, VT
By Robin Palmer Times Argus Staff
If a pending sale of Randolph's Rose Bowl goes through as expected, the Route 12 bowling alley will be replaced with a retail store.
A local resident, Wayne Warner, is hoping the deal falls through and he will be able to keep the long-standing bowling alley open, however. If not, Warner says he plans to buy the bowling equipment and lanes and open a bowling center elsewhere in town, possibly on Beanville Road where he lives.
Tony Voyer has been trying to sell Randolph's Rose Bowl for seven years, since he moved out of state to Little River, S.C. Formerly of Morrisville, Voyer had owned a second bowling alley in Morrisville, the former Morrisville Bowl. That bowling alley sold two years ago and is now an Agway. |
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Old diner comes with a special bullet hole
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from The Cincinnati Post
A recent story in the New York Times told of a boarded-up diner in Hell's Kitchen called the Munson and that it was for sale for $33,500.
The author, Dan Barry, painted a twisty little portrait on velvet of "a squat little diner whose red-and-yellow neon and blue-and-silver exterior evoke another, distant New York, one in which sobering coffee and late-night pancakes sit better in memory than in truth."
Fred Fasman's name is dropped near the end of the story. Fred's grandfather was a Jew who left Russia when the Bolsheviks took over, made a pile of money in America and lost it all in the Depression.
Instead of jumping off a building, he and his wife opened the Munson Diner. Their maids became their waitresses. Fred was working the grill by the time he was 16, nearly half a century ago.
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The Last of the Sauerbraten, and an Era |
The New York Times - By Coey Kiolgannon - Published: February 7, 2005
The demise of a beloved neighborhood restaurant can feel like a death in the family. But the closing Saturday night of Niederstein's, the 150-year-old German restaurant on Metropolitan Avenue in Middle Village, Queens, was like the death of a way of life.
For Julie Duignan, 66, of Middle Village, the closing was "the total end of an era."
"It's so sad," she said. "When we heard, we all started crying. I've been coming here since I was 4. My kids got married here and I had my mother's 65th and 70th birthdays here.'
"Niederstein's is the way the neighborhood used to be. It was a reunion every weekend. There's nothing like this, and there never will be."
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Fate of Old Theater to be Discussed |
WINFIELD, KS
The Winfield Cinemas building sits vacant on Main after parent company B&B Theatres closed it with the opening of the new Cowley Cinema 8. The public is invited to discuss the fate of the Winfield theater at a Thursday meeting.
The public is invited to discuss the future of the Winfield Cinemas building Thursday evening at 6:30. Joni Rankin, Winfield Main Street manager, will host at 1007 Main.
B & B Theaters, which owns the building, will give it to a non-profit organization for a dollar, Rankin said. B & B closed the Winfield Cinemas when it opened its new Cowley Cinemas 8 near Strother Field in December. |
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Saturn V boosters launch restoration
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By Dahleen Glanton
Tribune national correspondent
Published February 6, 2005
Chicago Tribune
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. -- The giant, aged rocket rests on its side on the grounds of the Marshall Space Flight Center, a neglected and nearly forgotten symbol of a bygone era. Its once-shiny surface is spattered with rust and mold. Birds build nests in its huge engines and weeds peer out from beneath its body.
Still, those who come to see this Saturn V rocket are awed by its splendor, just as they were in the late 1960s when other Saturn Vs launched three astronauts to the moon. The 363-foot-tall rocket could rattle the earth with its fiery thrust then travel into space at speeds up to 25,000 m.p.h.
Only three Saturn V rockets remain from NASA's program of moon expeditions that ended in 1972. Rockets used during missions were destroyed in stages during the launch or re-entry.
Though the three remaining were designated National Historic Landmarks, the rockets languished outside NASA visitor centers for 30 years while their exteriors deteriorated. The one housed at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida was restored in 1996. Now a race is on to restore the other two.
"The Saturn V is a monument to man's technology in the 1960s. It is by far the largest and most successful rocket ever built by any nation," said James Lovell, an astronaut on the Apollo 8 mission and the troubled Apollo 13 flight. "One of the tragedies of our space program is that, with all the research we had done, we decided not to continue building Saturn V rockets."
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In the Yukon, visitors seek the elusive mammoth
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By Ed Readicker-Henderson
Florida Sun-Sentinal
Posted February 6 2005
Travel is always a learning experience, and here's what I learned today: If I had been a caveman, I would have died young and hungry.
In Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, I find myself with an atl-atl in my hand.
"Hold it like this," the museum guide from the Beringia Centre says. The Centre is dedicated to showing that during the last ice age, this upper left corner of Canada was actually quite warm and toasty. It was part of a vast steppe -- think Wyoming plains -- called Beringia, which also covered most of Alaska, stretching into Siberia. It was a region of giant steppe bison, beavers the size of ottomans and sloths the size of Volkswagens; hunting them were the first North Americans, who'd just come across the Bering land bridge.
And so the atl-atl, the height of caveman technology: They could bring down a woolly mammoth with these things. The guide shows an elderly lady how to hold the yard-long throwing stick part of the atl-atl. Together, they knock an arrow into its base. "Now -- just like you were throwing a baseball."
The lady uncoils, the arrow flies 40 feet and whacks the cutout of a cave bear.
After my turn, while I check for blood on my feet and on the arrow that hit them, the lady has the manners not to laugh. "I used to play a lot of softball," she explains. |
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Marcy's Diner Withstands Time
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Marcy, OH
At the edge of Fairfield County, four miles south of Lithopolis, sits a little village known as Marcy, Ohio.
It was never incorporated, so residents who live there simply refer to it as the Crossroads, because it separates Fairfield County from Pickaway County.
Every small village seems to have its own unique flair. For Marcy, it may be the village's only business -- the Marcy Store and Diner, of which the store portion has been open for more than 160 years.
On any given morning, expect to find a group of farmers, retirees and friends congregating around one big table drinking coffee and talking about life.
"(This place) has come to mean different things to different folks," said Bryan Black.
The 44-year-old farmer has lived in Marcy all of his life. The business is about half a mile away from his farm. Black and his older brother, Barry Black, also a farmer, are among the "regulars" at the business.
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Earth moving begins for drive-in theater |
Nina Finch and Phil Radosevich are planning to bring back a bit of Americana to Centerville - a drive-in movie theater. Just south of the Mystic exit on Highway 2, the planned area is the site of the former Sunshine Mine. Earth moving has already begun on the property.
Once the outdoor theaters dotted the state's landscape, situated on the edges of towns and cities. Urban sprawl and the demand for land ate most of them up, and were never replaced. There are now only three drive-in theaters in Iowa - Newton, Maquoketa and Sioux City.
Radosevich said if all goes well, the theater will be open by May. He hopes to develop the site as time goes on, possibly including a picnic table area. He also hopes to have events like an auto night where area residents can bring their antique cars and watch such car classics as "Bullet" and "Christine."
The drive-in was invented by Richard Hollingshead of Camden, N.J., who was interested in both cars and movies. He experimented in his driveway by mounting a 1928 Kodak projector on the hood of his car and projected a movie onto a screen nailed to trees in his backyard. The sound was provided by a radio placed behind the screen.
Hollingshead patented the drive-in theater in 1933 and with $30,000, he opened the first one in his hometown. Admission was 25 cents for the car and 25 cents per person.
©Daily Iowegian 2005, originally published here;
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=13724710&BRD=1284&PAG=461&dept_id=179799&rfi=6
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Diner still ‘Court’-ing new customers after 40 years |
by SUSAN L. SERBIN, Daily Times Correspondent
01/23/2005, Copyright The Daily Times
MEDIA, PA
When Charles Adams was in junior high -- admittedly some years ago -- there was a diner across the street from his school. He used to look at it and say, "Some day I’ll have a place like that." Adams has done that, and more. He and his actual and extended family are celebrating 40 years at the Court Diner, the Baltimore Pike landmark in the county seat.
The restaurant is marking the anniversary the weekend of Jan. 29-30 with a 10-cent cup of coffee, complimentary cake and the good food and service for which it is known.
The Court is going into its 41st year, to be exact, having opened in 1964. Adams had a partner, Steve Stephano, who retired in 1985. Charles’ son, Nick, has become a partner. One of them is generally on the premises throughout the long 6 a.m.-11 p.m. day.
"My dad would be here all day if he could," said Nick, who is almost always at work in the kitchen. |
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