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A scale rendition of a time and temperature display as mounted at the base of the third floor on the southwest corner of Avenue of the Americas (Sixth Avenue) and West 32nd Street across from Gimbels, in connection with a billboard for Englander mattresses ("The Finest Name in Sleep") as beginning some time in the mid-1950's (1955, according to Artkraft Strauss files in the New York Public Library) and still active as late as 1968 (though it is unknown whether it continued past then). The building housing it - with a luncheonette counter on the ground floor of that corner - has since been replaced by one of those glass-laden towers. As can be seen, the temperature was placed above and the time below, and was of the usual 1950's Time-O-Matic numeral style "J" as seen on the examples of renderings of the clocks atop the 407 Lincoln Road building in Miami Beach, FL. (The dimensions were pretty small - 3" spacing between both columns and rows - thus is pretty small in this example.)
Shore Haven Luncheonette in Bath Beach, Brooklyn has been in business since the 1950s. We love its #handpainted #signage, especially the proclamation that it has the "BEST COFFEE in BENSONHURST"! It really does have good #coffee ☕️and serves a fantastic buttered #bagel! The interior is original, complete with lunch counter and stools and they also still serve old-fashioned egg creams and malteds! Photo from 2009 appears in our newly released book "Store Front II- A History Preserved". #storefront #signgeeks #tv_typography #tv_retro #tv_retrotype #fontastic #typevstime #jj_texttypographical
Lexington Candy Shop Luncheonette's Window Display Of Coca-Cola Collection, Upper East Side, New York City
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I found this gem in downtown Passaic NJ. I don't know what's more intriguing, the vintage Coke/Luncheonette sign, or the sign above it!
my aunt gert, once a hoofer always a hoofer, knew Ginger Rogers loved butterscotch as she read it in photoplay. so she made up this dish with butterscotch pudding and chocolate oreos:
1. went to store, hair in a Vera scarf
2. flirted with butcher
3. bought 1 box jello butterscotch pudding, 1 package oreos. just regular oreos, they didn't make all that fuss with the double and the mint in those days
4. made pudding
5. watched General Hospital
6. opened oreos, ate a few, threw the rest in the pink melamine bowl
7. stared at it
8. crushed them up with potato masher
8. whipped up pudding with her giant whisk, then frothed on top of oreo chunks
9. grabbed the spatula with the red handle, did 6 swift strokes
10. 4 more strokes
11. fridgidaire, 3 hours
12. argued with sister on the phone
13. pulled it out for us as we ran the lobby intercom
14. watched us devour it, proudly, never had a bite.
Established in 1925, the Lexington Candy Shop is one of the few traditional New York luncheonettes remaining, a place where the lemonade is still freshly squeezed. I've been going here since 1979 when the original owner still ran it and very little has changed. It is now run by his son.
Lexington Avenue @ 83rd Street, New York City.
Olympus Infinity AF-1, Zuiko 35mm f2.8, Fuji Superia 400.
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photo by Andrew Moore
The Grand Luncheonette was closed in October 19th, 1997 by the city of New York. A few months later the Selwyn Theatre collapsed, taking the remains of the Grand Luncheonette with it.
Watch a five minute documentary about the Grand Luncheonette here
www.fondaboricua.com/NN_lounge.php
A History in the Making
More than a decade ago, on the corner of 106th Street and Third Avenue in the heart of East Harlem (known to us locals as ‘El Barrio’), a small unassuming luncheonette called ‘George & Ginas' was to make history. Virgenes Diaz, or ‘Gina’ as she was affectionately known, had owned several successful eateries in the neighborhood. But it was this one – her last one – which would become the East Harlem icon that today is known as La Fonda Boricua.
George and Gina’s became La Fonda Boricua in 1996 when Jorge Ayala purchased the quiet lunch spot and turned it into a vibrant local favorite. Working closely with his kitchen crew, Jorge preserved many of the restaurant’s traditional dishes and added a few of his own. Then half its current size, La Fonda Boricua would become a favorite among local residents and citywide Latinos who yearned for a place where their food and culture could proudly take center stage.
The Expansion
In 2000, the stage widened, when Jorge’s brother Roberto arrived from Puerto Rico to help him expand the business. The two brothers would prove an excellent team, doubling the size of La Fonda in a year, and adding a robust catering service component to their young business.
This is the Fonda Boricua that most people know about today. From 2007 to 2008, it was also the home of some of the greatest live, improvisational latin music being performed in New York City. But soon, it became apparent that the Fonda Boricua's humble facilities were just not enough to contain the kind of musical expression that kept coming its way.
The FB Lounge
In 2008, building on the success of its Latin Jazz Thursdays, the Ayalas opened a second bar and restaurant right across the street from the Fonda Boricua called the FB Lounge. Offering an exciting menu of both the new and the traditional, the Lounge continues in the Fonda tradition of combining great food, music and art in El Barrio. The Lounge has become home to some of the most authentic live improvisational afro-caribbean and Latin music being played today. This is where New York City's best come to jam, and on any given night, you never know who's going drop by to sit in.
While it is true that many celebrities have been to The Fonda, the Ayala Brothers know that the strength of their business comes from the wonderful people of El Barrio. It is they who have made La Fonda the success it is today, and it is they who have kept the brothers focused, inspired and motivated all these years.
"Queen of Resort Hotels," featuring the World-Famous Whirlpool Thermal Baths, with guests going direct from rooms to Bathhouse in robe and slippers...400 air-conditioned rooms, including kitchenette, new Lanai Tower, and poolside Lanai Suites connecting with Hotel. Year'round temperature-controlled pool, with separate pool for the kiddies. European Plan, Diing Room, Luncheonette, Dutch Treat Grill, etc. 'PRICES TO FIT EVERY POCKETBOOK'"
X is where we are. Twin beds, table, lamp, 2 easy chairs 2 straight chairs, ice box, stove & refrigerator--dresser & large closet & a tub in bath room some rooms have no tubs (want you to take bath down stairs ha ha) only 7.00 a day. Hotel 11.50 a day.</i? Never sent.
Kansas, 1970s
Dedicated to John Updike--1932-2009
Ex-Basketball Player
by John Updike
Pearl Avenue runs past the high-school lot,
Bends with the trolley tracks, and stops, cut off
Before it has a chance to go two blocks,
At Colonel McComsky Plaza. Berth’s Garage
Is on the corner facing west, and there,
Most days, you'll find Flick Webb, who helps Berth out.
Flick stands tall among the idiot pumps—
Five on a side, the old bubble-head style,
Their rubber elbows hanging loose and low.
One’s nostrils are two S’s, and his eyes
An E and O. And one is squat, without
A head at all—more of a football type.
Once Flick played for the high-school team, the Wizards.
He was good: in fact, the best. In ’46
He bucketed three hundred ninety points,
A county record still. The ball loved Flick.
I saw him rack up thirty-eight or forty
In one home game. His hands were like wild birds.
He never learned a trade, he just sells gas,
Checks oil, and changes flats. Once in a while,
As a gag, he dribbles an inner tube,
But most of us remember anyway.
His hands are fine and nervous on the lug wrench.
It makes no difference to the lug wrench, though.
Off work, he hangs around Mae’s Luncheonette.
Grease-gray and kind of coiled, he plays pinball,
Smokes those thin cigars, nurses lemon phosphates.
Flick seldom says a word to Mae, just nods
Beyond her face toward bright applauding tiers
Of Necco Wafers, Nibs, and Juju Beads.
This building on Route 70 in Cherry Hill near the Evesham border was originally one of the many computer stores that opened in the 1980s when the PC revolution was beginning. Most were in shopping centers, but some were larger freestanding units like this. This building replaced an Arthur Treacher's Fish and Chips restaurant, before that there was a small luncheonette here.
It's Sunday morning! let's brunch all together!
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Guten Morgen
Alpenoberkrainer mit Ivanka und Otto
Dove's Luncheonette
Chicago, Illinois
(May 5, 2015)
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The Woolworth Building in Bakersfield has been converted into an antiques collective. The luncheonette is still operated.
Color photographic print shows a local bus on North Street in Hingham Square in front of the building that replaced the Hingham Square train depot, which was demolished in 1949. The new building has a number of signs including one for the "New Haven Railroad Station" and the Hingham Pastry Shop and Luncheonette. Barba's Market can be seen across the Square.
In the collection of the Hingham Historical Society [2013.16.106].
The mural outside Veselka was painted by Arnie Charnick. Veselka, at 144 2nd Avenue, was first established in 1954 by post-World War II Ukrainian refugees Wolodymyr and Olha Darmochawal. Veselka, the Ukranian word for 'rainbow,' was initially a candy shop and newsstand until 1960 when the Darmochwals combined it with an adjacent luncheonette. During the 1960's, Veselka became a counterculture social center. Today the New York institution, one of the last Slavic restaurants that once proliferated the neighborhood, is owned by Darmochwal’s son-in-law, Tom Birchard, and run by his grandson, Jason Birchard, and cranks out 3,000 hand made peirogis a day and 5,000 gallons of borscht a week.
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Hinsch's Diner in Bay Ridge Brooklyn NY - July 13th 2010 I love the early 40's Neon sign and the Main external achitectural design. I eat here often. Yes, they have great egg creams & Black & Whites.
When I first arrived in Fort Pierce in the fall of 1948, the bus station was on Avenue A, half a block west of US-1. Soon after that, they built this new one on 4th Street several blocks north of the old location. The far end of the building was a "Bus Station Luncheonette" and I worked there as a dish washer. I also waited on customers at the lunch counter or at tables. When a bus rolled in we worked like crazy for about 20 minutes, then when riders finished their meal and returned to the bus, we cleaned up. No paper plates or plastic cups in those day. It was just a ton of dirty dishes.
The lucheonette door is the one past the sign. The larger door was the main entrance to the waiting room. White travelers used this room, but black travelers had to use a smaller one in back with an entrance next to a row of garbage cans. White people had comfortable seats, but black people had backless wooden benches. They also had to order food through a small window into the kitchen, because they were not allowed in the luncheonette.
I think Fort Pierce still has a bus station, but not in this building.
Alas, my dear Florent....which I've been going to for some 20+ years has closed, due to unscrupulous greed, forcing their rent to go from $5000.00 a month to somewhere between $30,000 to $50,000, according to reports...sad, Floernt has been a staple in my repitoir of places friendly to, no, EMBRACING the LGBT community with open arms, since way back when Jackie 60 was THE happening party close by...I have taken many of you there...so those lucky enough to have had the warm embrace, and fantastic food, thank you for being with me, to laugh & dine with me at the fabulous Florent...there are no plans for a relaunch...Au Revoir friends, I hope that we'll meet again...
RESTAURANT FLORENT®
“French diner?” “Gallic coffee shop?” “Chic, quirky luncheonette?” People have tried to describe us in many ways over the last fifteen years. Lately, they've even been referring to us as a “New York institution.” (We're not quite sure anyone or anything should be an institution.)
We like to think of ourselves as serving solid French bistro fare at non-exclusive prices in a low-key, congenial, 'downtown' New York atmosphere. What keeps that atmosphere ignited is our eclectic clientele and the vision of our owner Florent Morellet.
The media has recently declared our neighborhood, the historic Meat Market district, New York's hottest, hippest area. They've dubbed Florent its unofficial mayor, although he's still negotiating for Queen.
When he originally opened in this decidedly unfashionable spot, it was to give New Yorkers a reliable, round-the-clock eating establishment away from the hype and glitz of the “scene.” Things change, but Florent's beliefs haven't. Good food. Good people. And, as we're French, some good, strong opinions to keep it all bubbling.
Restaurant Florent
69 Gansevoort St.
New York, NY 10014
OPEN 24 HOURS, 7 DAYS A WEEK
A trip down memory lane... I used to drop by this place for lunch on my trips to the Metropolitan Museum of Art while in high school and college. The neighborhood has changed a lot since. The food is OK, just straight up diner food. But it's one of those places that would make me very sad if it ever went away. It doesn't look like it will close shop any time soon and I'm hoping it'll stick around a while longer :)
I know, it's just a piece of toast. But it was toasted just right.
This building on Route 70 past Greentree Road at Deer Park in Cherry Hill was Ralph's Barber Shop. I got my first haircut here. It was originally Renda's Market and Luncheonette. This building, the neighboring one in the background and a small strip center were demolished soon after this shot was taken and a Wawa Food Store was built here.
The Cup & Saucer is located on Canal Street, in Chinatown, New York City. My ex wife remembers this place when she was a little girl growing up there, and tells me that this place has not changed at all. That's something I really love about New York City. Parts of it are so modern, and changing all the time, but there are a lot of areas like this, remaining unchanged for decades.
I hope that this place always stays as she remembers it. I grew up on Long Island, and when I go there now, I can't even recognize it anymore. Everything has become so different then I remember. That makes me kind of sad. I wish at least a few things could have stayed as they were..
A circa-1968 site plan of the shiny new shopping hub. It spanned 1,064,900 leasable square feet on a single retail level and contained fifty-seven stores and services.
BROOKFIELD SQUARE TENANTS 1968:
BOSTON STORE (with Garden Terrace Dining Room and freestanding Auto Center) / SEARS (with Coffee Shop and freestanding Auto Center) / J.C. PENNEY (with freestanding Auto Center) / T.A. CHAPMAN / KOHL'S FOODS / F.W. WOOLWORTH (with Harvest House Restaurant) / WALGREEN DRUG (with luncheonette) / BROOKFIELD SQUARE CINEMA (single screen) / Allied Radio Shack / Atlantic City / Baker's Shoes / Baldwin Wurlitzer Organs & Pianos / Barricini Candy / Bresler's 33 Flavors Ice Cream / Brills Colony Men's & Boy's / Brookfield Federal Savings & Loan (outparcel) / Brookfield Music Center / Brookfield National Bank (outparcel) / Brookfield Square Barber Shop / Evenson's Gift Shop / Fanny Farmer Candies / Florsheim Shoes / Fountain of Flowers / Four Seasons Casuals / Harris, Upham & Company Stock Brokers / Hobby Horse / House of Fashion Beauty Salon / House of Nine ladies' wear / Johnny Walker Men's & Boy's / Julie Ann Fabrics / Kaiser Shoe Boat / Kinney Shoes / Lane Bryant / Marianne Shop ladies wear / Marshall Camera West / Mary Lester Fabrics / Memory Lane, Incorporated Cards & Gifts / Miles Shoes / Militzer Bakery / Nobil Shoes / Parklane Hosiery / Regal Shoes / Richman Brothers men's wear / Rose Jewelers / Shirley's Maternity Fashions / Singer Sewing Center / Spencer Gifts / Spic & Span Laundry / The Added Touch Fireplaces / The Grand ladies' wear / The Sidewalk Cafe / The Swiss Colony / Tie Rak / Travel Guide, Incorporated / Waldenbooks / Women's Wear
Quinoa Pancake
With lemon-ginger rhubarb compote, granola, lemon crema and Burton Farm maple syrup. ($?)
Dove's Luncheonette
Chicago, Illinois
(May 5, 2015)
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Hinsch's Diner in Bay Ridge Brooklyn NY - July 13th 2010 I love the early 40's Neon sign and the Main external achitectural design. I eat here often. Yes, they have great egg creams & Black & Whites.
A cabin at the Gettysburg Motor Lodge/Quality Inn, 380 Steinwehr Avenue, is a nod to the motel's past. From the info panel:
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In 1938, in time for the 75th Anniversary of the battle, Curnal Butt and his three daughters opened the Green Gables Tourist Cabins advertising “running water, luncheonette and confection service….”
In 1956, Paul and Jean Witt replaced the cabins with the Gettysburg Motor Lodge, the first modern motel in Gettysburg.
In 1996 their sons, Gary and Paul Jr., had Cabin #3 returned to the site and restored as a reminder of the early lodging industry.
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We just returned from a trip there via the Lincoln Highway. Lots of pics from that trip on my new blog: www.lincolnhighwaynews.com/
A restored Woolworth Variety Store currently operating under the name Bakersfield Woolworth Antique Mall.
This place is remarkable both inside and out!
Yes, the Woolworth Luncheonette is still operating with great prices and wonderful food.