Diners and Drive-Ins / Your Contributions are Welcome!

[Otto Puzzell]

A series of period photos of diners and drive-ins. I hope you'll add yours, too. The only requirement: There must be one or more automobiles pictured with the diner or drive-in.

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[Ray B.]

Great pictures!
I thought it would be a cinch for me to find pictures for this topic: I have maybe five books about diners, with many drive-ins to boot. And I downloaded a few hundred photos where I supposed there were more... But no, almost no diner or drive-in on my hard drive. I would have to scan my books.
However: I saw that your first picture (a famous one by Russell Lee or another FSA photographer), showed a café!
So, although I am in favor of strictly sticking to the topic's definition, here are, exceptionally, a few pictures of cafés by the great Russell Lee.

[Ray B.]

A few more, still by some FSA-OWI photographers.

EDI: I see that the Carl Mydans photo had already been posted by Otto. Well, you'll have it bigger...

[Otto Puzzell]

Great pics, Ray.  

Cafe's are A-OK.

[Ray B.]

Well, cafés are OK, you say, but I still found a few eateries.
First the restaurant of Union Station in Washington, which in 1938 has been, turned into a drive-in you'd say,  for the presentation of the new Mercury.

And two night scenes.

[woodinsight]

Wonderful evocative photos, thanks for showing them.....

[Ray B.]

Where is the diner?

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Here.

[Otto Puzzell]

I'm getting hungry

[Ray B.]

For that kind of topic with lots of images, my problem is my very slow connection - 608 kbits - like if I lived in the Gobi desert. I have time to trim my nails while a page opens.
Nevertheless, here are a few good ones.

[Ray B.]

Here is a period article about The Track, featured in Otto's first post (Diner 2).

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[Otto Puzzell]

Great stuff!

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Hot off the grill!

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[Ray B.]

So you got 94, huh?

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Hurrying towards page 2.

[Ray B.]

They've got a lot of them at Life, don't they?

[Ray B.]

I could get into postcards too, but...