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Embassy Grille, AKA Market Square Diner (with Brill diner primer)
This blog post is ultimately about the Embassy Grill (or Grille), a diner that lived most of its operating life fairly close to the factory that built it. But before I get into the details (as I know...
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New Roadside related books in my library…
I have recently added 3 new (to me) books to my ever increasing personal “Roadside related” library that I highly recommend to anyone who has an interest, whether in passing or as an avid aficionado!...
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Author Event @ Barnes & Noble – Nashua, NH
This coming Saturday, June 20, 2015, I am doing an author’s event for my book New Hampshire Diners: Classic Granite State Eateries at the Barnes & Noble store located at the corner of Daniel...
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Ralph A. Corrado Jr, long-time owner of Rosie’s Diner passes away
Throughout the last almost 35 years of documenting diners with my photographs, I have made a lot of friends. A huge portion of those friends are kindred spirits who are also traveling the great...
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Another Author Event, August 15th at Barnes & Noble – Portsmouth/Newington, NH
I have another Author Event for my New Hampshire Diners book is slated for the New Hampshire Seacoast area, tomorrow – August 15th at the Barnes & Noble store at Fox Run Crossings, 45 Gosling Road...
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The former Fish Tale Diner of Salisbury, Mass. suffers fire damage
The restaurant currently known as The Deck, located at the Bridge Marina on Rings Island, hard by the bank of the Merrimack River in Salisbury, Massachusetts suffered a fire on August 22, 2015. Within...
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Nashua, NHs Yankee Flyer Diner mural due for restoration
Yankee Flyer mural – August, 1997 photo by Larry Cultrera Back in the mid 1990s I received some newspaper clippings in the mail about a proposed mural depicting the long-gone Yankee Flyer Diner. This...
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Diner Hotline weblog – 8 years old today!!!
October 31, 2015 is of course Halloween, but also the date marks the 8th anniversary of the creation of this blog! As some of my readers know, Diner Hotline started as the first regular column to ever...
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Marking 35 years of documenting Diners!
The very first photo I ever shot of a diner… The Bypass Diner of Harrisburg, PA (now known as the American Dream Diner). November 29, 1980 photo by Larry Cultrera Well, it’s Thanksgiving weekend,...
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Two more Author Events for New Hampshire Diners book, both in March, 2016
I have two more author events in March of 2016 for my book, New Hampshire Diners: Classic Granite State Eateries. The first one is a Power Point presentation/Lecture at the Nashua Public Library on...
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Diner Hotline back from 7 month Hiatus
yours truly sitting at the counter at the original Red Arrow Diner in Manchester, NH Well, I know it’s been a while, but I was thinking it is coming up on the 9th anniversary of starting this blog...
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Contrary to popular belief, Diners in the Bay State did enter the modern era…
I recently posted a group of photos on my Facebook page which gave me the idea for this Diner Hotline blog post! Back in the late 1950s, the designs and size of diners were evolving past the railroad...
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Diner Hotline’s ninth birthday
Well, another year has gone by. October 31st marks nine years since I started this blog. Now granted, I have hardly posted in the past year but intend to make up for it as the weeks go by. I am already...
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New Hampshire’s Mary Ann’s Diner – three locations – great food and service!
” Roadside sign for Mary Ann’s Diner, Salem, NH. August 28, 2016 photo by Larry Cultrera 36 years ago (November 29, 1980), when I first started documenting diners with my photos, I was pretty much a...
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Today marks 36 years since shooting my first “Diner” photograph!
November 29, 1980 is a very significant date in my life. I was visiting my pal Steve Repucci in Harrisburg, PA on the long Thanksgiving Day weekend. We had moved Steve down to Harrisburg on the...
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10 years of Blogging – Diner Hotline style!
I know I have been largely absent from blogging this past year. This has been to my on-going project of scanning all of my 35mm slides (diners and other things, etc.) as well as another personal...
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37 years down the road…
It is still hard to even wrap my brain around the fact that I took my very first “Diner” photograph 37 years ago on November 29, 1980! Although my interest in Diners goes back to the 1950s when I was...
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Singer-Songwriter to do East Coast Diner Tour to promote album.
I recently heard from Alexi Paraschos, a self described soul/pop artist currently living in Philadelphia. Hailing originally from the Boston suburb of Newton, (he graduated Newton North High School,...
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11th Anniversary for Diner Hotline blog
Well, another year has rolled around. October 31st marks the 11th year this blog has been up and running. Granted, I have not posted much for most of this year as I have been feverishly scanning the...
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Marking 38 years of documenting Diners with my photographs
My first attempt at photographing a diner. In this case, the By-Pass Diner of Harrisburg, PA – November 29, 1980 It is still amazing to me that the photo featured above would ever snowball into...
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