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A Tribute to Michael Paul Smith, a true artist in Forced Perspective Photography
Michael Paul Smith with a diorama set up of Elgin Park courtesy of Michael Paul Smith archives I was saddened to hear the news that Michael Paul Smith had passed away on November 19, 2018. I will go...
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GoFundMe page to help defray costs in transporting a 1920s vintage Diner from...
I was contacted recently by Chris Tunnah in the last month. Chris is a restaurateur based in New York state operating restaurants as a General Manager & Consultant in NYC for the last 15 years,...
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A friend’s recent book launch leads to my first real “Diner” road-trip in...
As you may have noticed, this is my first blog post in a while. Again I apologize for the infrequent posts but I have been scanning my collection of 35mm slides and prints, which has consumed a lot of...
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New Hampshire Diner presentation, Friday, October 11, 2019 – Plaistow, NH...
I will be doing a slide presentation in conjunction with the Plaistow Historical Society this coming Friday afternoon. It will be held at the Plaistow Public Library, 85 Main Street (Route 121A) at...
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Diner Hotline Weblog – an even dozen years and counting….
I am sure a fair portion of people who read this blog are aware that Diner Hotline had started out as the first ever regular column that appeared in two of the publications made available to the...
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39 years of photographing diners (and other roadside stuff)….
On this day, 39 years ago (November 29, 1980) I took one 35mm photograph of a diner… namely, the By Pass Diner of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. This event, small in comparison to others in the greater...
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Worcester Lunch Car No. 833 demolished
I heard some sad news last week that an old diner located on Bennett Street in Lynn, Massachusetts was reportedly demolished last week. It suffered a very bad fire a little over a year ago. Listed as...
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Down & Out Worcester Streamliner comes back to life!
I am happy to report that it is not all bad news with diners closing and or being demolished lately. There is good news coming out of Pawtucket, Rhode Island that happens to be a long time in coming...
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Pet peeve time – It truly has always bothered me when people use the term...
1st pet peeve – Writers and or reporters referring to Diners as Greasy Spoons Back on March 25, 2020, Jeremy Ebersole – a current Vice President of the Society for Commercial Archeology (SCA) who makes...
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Marking 13 years of blogging, Diner Hotline style…
This coming Saturday, October 31, 2020 will mark 13 years since I started this blog. Granted I have not been very regular with my posts this year, but there is nothing “very regular” about this year...
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Celebrating a major milestone – my 40 year anniversary of photographing Diners
This year November 29th falls on a Sunday. Who knew that a tentative single 35mm photo taken on this same date 40 years ago in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, would lead me into a multi-decade mission to...
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Unique Roadside commercial structures revisited…
Back on June 17, 2008 when this blog was less than a year old, I wrote a post called Interesting places I have photographed…...
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Worcester, Massachusetts’ Corner Lunch Diner origins uncovered
I have been documenting Diners with my photos for over 40 years now and every now and then a piece of the vast puzzle of American Diner history finally shows up and fills in a blank. Especially since...
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Got Gas? – a new book recently published by Jimmy Rosen
front cover of Got Gas? back cover of Got Gas? I recently received a copy of a new book by Jimmy Rosen of Duncannon, Pennsylvania. The book is titled Got Gas? – A pictorial look at central...
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Sherwood’s Diner purchased by the Worcester Red Sox. Restored & installed...
When I first started photographing diners in the early 1980s, I revisited places in my home state of Massachusetts I recalled from earlier travels. These places were not only in the eastern part of...
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Diner Hotline blog turns 14
October 31st came and went and it was not until yesterday, November 2nd that I realized that I failed to acknowledge the anniversary of the creation of this blog. The reason that it slipped my mind...
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Forty one years since I shot that first photo of a diner in Harrisburg,...
By-Pass Diner, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. November 29, 1980 – My first Diner photo Monday, November 29, 2021 marks the anniversary of me shooting the first of thousands of “Diner” photographs. Most...
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An interesting research document on Roadside Architecture in New Hampshire…
As I am wont to do, I initiated a Google search on my name one day this past April and found it associated with an interesting research document. This document titled Post World War II Automobile Era...
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Zoom Slide Presentation on Diners in conjunction with The Society for...
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1ST @ 7:00PM EDT Larry CultreraFrom Lunch Carts to Mega-Restaurants:The Evolution of the American Diner Starting with the shooting of one fateful photograph of a diner on November 29,...
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Summer, 2022 – Notes from the Hotline… two 1950 vintage O’Mahony diners...
I have not done a “Notes from the Hotline” in quite some time and while starting to write this, I decided this format would be right for this particular post. First up on the agenda is news from my...
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