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Day to day, to day... today
Then they were old, their lives wasted away
Month to month, year to year
They all run together
Time measured by the peeling of paint on the luncheonette wall...
The faux painted middle section was a set from the film I worked on there THE LEMON SISTERS - the sisters have a shop on the boardwalk selling old collectibles and a museum in the film. But it was really nothing compared to the authentic, not a movie set CLOWN HOUSE Luncheonette next door, complete with clown paintings inside, and a clown parade early one morning on the deserted boardwalk. As I walked to set very early I thought I was in a Fellini film, the clowns prancing single file silhouetted along the boardwalk.
I felt like I was back in the 1950's when I spotted this scene, and having a Rolleiflex around my neck only enhanced that feeling.
Rolleiflex 2.8F
80mm Zeiss Planar f/2.8
CineStill B&W Film (120 film)
Developed: The Darkroom Photo Lab, San Clemente, CA
Chicago
2021
© James Rice, All Rights Reserved
Yeah, they were going to downtown, but not to see a lady. What do you mean you don’t get the song reference? Oh. I guess I’m the only Abandoned Luncheonette enjoyer here then. That’s a shame…
On the morning of April 1, 2022, with the early spring sun still rising over the greater Miami area, a morning drive into Hialeah to kick off a day of train hunting led me to cross paths with CSX Y32231, returning to Hialeah Yard after a mornings worth of work on the Downtown Spur. A northward facing #CSX2778 [GP38-2] with a three man crew aboard haul 10 cars for the yard, set to head north to Waycross on an outbound Q452. An enthusiastic, eagle-eyed conductor waves out the window, somehow having spotted me from a good distance away.
CSX has a number of yard jobs based out of Hialeah Yard to work the multitude of customers and industrial parks around the area; Y322 typically works the Downtown Spur, a roughly 3.5 mile long spur branching off the single track SFRTA mainline near CP MIAMI CANAL, running geographically east on what used to be the Seaboard Air Line’s double track mainline into their Miami station. The Spur’s few customers are typically served in the early morning hours under the darkness of night, the operation rarely seen in broad daylight from what I’ve seen [Tolga’s the expert on that, gotta give where credit is due].
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Hialeah, FL
SFRTA Mainline
Date: 04/01/2022 | 09:09
ID: CSX Y32231
Type: Yard Job
Direction: Northbound
Car Count: 10
1. CSX GP38-2 #2778
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© Vicente Alonso 2022
This old lunch counter is in an old re-done store in a run down small town in South Georgia, USA. By preserving or re-doing the lunch counter, the owners were hoping to revitalize the basically 'dead' small town area. I believe it has since closed.
Gap, PA
We had a delicious lunch at this Lancaster County luncheonette (don't you just love that name!), found while we were exploring the area. We'd been to this amish/mennonite area of Pennsylvania before but only ever for overnight stays, so it was nice to stay for more than just one night, and have some relaxed time to look around.
I came across this great retro Diner in Baltimore, Maryland, not long ago.
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Day to day, to day... today
Then they were old, their lives wasted away
Month to month, year to year
They all run together
Time measured by the peeling of paint on the luncheonette wall...
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I had pulled over to snap the EAT sign that was missing its A (Appetite), and decided to peak into the window...what a shame...coulda' been a cool place at one time...
A veteran counterman mixing fountain drinks at the Lexington Candy Shop & Luncheonette. This is, I'm told, the oldest family owned luncheonette in New York City. Although there have been a few additions, the menu remains substantially the same as it was when the store opened in 1925. Some of the equipment, like the malted milk machine, dates from the 1940's, which is also when the shop was last renovated. The owner, now in his sixties, started working here when he was a teenager, and the staff, like this vigilant counterman, has been around, pretty much unchanged, for decades. With a younger son in the wings and a long term lease in hand, the Lexington Candy Shop should be around for many years to come . I hope so, for this is one store that actually is unique and could never be replaced
Go ahead baby, go ahead
Go ahead and light up the town
And baby, I do anything your heart desires, remember
I'll always be around
And I know, I know
Like I told you so many times before
You're gonna come back
Yeah, you you're gonna come back baby
Knockin', yeah, knocking right on my door
Yes
Samuel Sutty & Son was a candy store or luncheonette or some combination of both in Hudson, New York. It has not been open in a very long time.
Hildebrandt’s is a classic Long Island luncheonette/ice cream shop which has been in business since 1927 but is struggling to survive due to a recent rent increase.
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A West Hartford institution.
Day 19/ 365
119 in 2019 - #79: Old Fashioned
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I don't know why I've always had a 'thing' for signs, however, 'Record Store', 'DVD Store', 'Coffee Shop', 'Luncheonette', and 'Hobby Store' signs are my Holy Grails.
My very first digital camera was a Canon point & shoot that had an electronic level. My first digital SLR did not have a level (I had it for 3 or 4 years, and I don't think I took one photo with a straight horizon). I promised myself that my next camera 'had' to have that feature. It didn't.................however it did have 'on demand' grid lines, which I actually liked even better than the virtual horizon feature. My current camera has the virtual horizon, and I am back to crooked horizons which have to be fixed (or made slightly better), after the fact.
Tonight's Powerball jackpot is something like $327 million. When I win, one of the first things I'd 'have' to have, is that sign. Frivolous? DO YOU SEE THAT THING READS, "8 Track?" And, they ain't using it.
Stingy Lulu’s, the East Village retro-style luncheonette, was opened in 1992 by Karacona Cinar and featured drag queens as waitresses. The storefront later was home to the Hop Devil Grill and was empty for quite some time with for rent signs visible before becoming part of a large Starbucks a few years ago that wraps around the corner of St. Mark's Place and Avenue A. We wonder what happened to those vintage Coca-Cola signs. If anyone knows where these ended up, we would love to know (hopefully they are on display somewhere and were not thrown in a dumpster).
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This week in SSC:
Reflections in Water
Well, I went down to the canal and then I went to the lake and I wound up finding what I wanted in the pond in my own yard. Funny how that goes. ;-)
I took this photo the other morning at the beginning of a beautiful sunny day.
...and for Sight and Sound
Hall & Oates from their "Abandoned Luncheonette" album (1973)
or Live at Daryl's House:
This display of Coca-Cola bottles was seen in the window of the Lexington Candy Shop/Luncheonette on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.
Two Bridges Diner. End of a dream? Two brothers opened a place they called Cup & Saucer Luncheonette almost 30 years ago in a space next door. It thrived. Then in 2017 the owners raised the rent to about $15,000 a month. The Cup & Saucer closed. When you passed by and looked in the window there never seemed to be an empty seat. The brothers reopened in 2019 in a space adjacent to where the Cup & Saucer had been. This time they called it Two Bridges Diner. I passed by today and the picture shows what I saw. It was sad to see.