Diner Dining, 1953
Circular signs of Gulf and Coca Cola dot in the distance across the parking lot where bright-eyed, dull-colored cars, parked outside boxy double white windowpanes, wait for their owners.
Inside, warm knotty pine paneling and tropical-ish print bark cloth curtains compliment a lamp-lit, wood trimmed, buttery-tan Naugahyde upholstered booth where a party of four half poses for this picture. The lone man finishing his dessert and the lady in blue glance toward the lens. But the hot pink hatted, tri-pearl stranded lady — dressed to match the tablecloth — sternly stares at the snow-capped coed.
All the while, the pursed-lipped pioneer woman up front and center has no idea she’s being photographed. Say cheese!
Here’s to the diner, the diners and YOU!!!
Charles Phoenix
May 3, 2012
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I bet they had the early bird special which included beverage and jello or pudding!! I love diner food, gimme a rice pudding with whipped cream please!!\
Wow, was the food really that bad?
The two women in the front makes this photo unintentional Art.
Everyone in this pic looks sexually repressed or deprived. Usually I love these pics but this one is bizarre. The woman in the red hat looks like a man. Kind of like Divine in “Female Trouble”…haha
Even the cars look depressed in those drab colors.
Looks like they just ate their post- Sunday morning church dinner and are contemplating the fire and brimstone sermon.
Boy, I wonder if they used ugly pills in the food at this place. Not a single smile nor attractive face. This must be a picture that would have been one of those “People of WalMart” pictures if there had been such a thing in the 1950s.
I love seeing the outdoors through that window. It’s serendipitous. A view into another dimension.
Great slide. What a lovely assortment of shiny happy people! Everybody looks like their knickers are too tight. The two in front especially look as if they’re ready to take a chunk out of each other.