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Where Is The Comet?
Diners, Zippy & Dives 4

Above Photo Courtesy of Seth Gaines' photostream
This page has photos of our 1961 Comet
taken in front of Diners and Dives in Rhode Island.

Did you know the Diner originated in Rhode Island. The origins of the diner can be traced to Walter Scott, a part-time pressman and type compositor in Providence, Rhode Island. Around 1858 when Scott was 17 years old he supplemented his income by selling sandwiches and coffee from a basket to newspaper night workers and patrons of men's club rooms. By 1872 business became so lucrative that Scott quit his printing work and began to sell food at night from a horse-drawn covered express wagon parked outside the Providence Journal newspaper office. In doing so, Walter Scott unknowingly inspired the birth of what would become one of America's most recognized icons -- the diner.
From American Diner Museum.org

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RI Diners That Are gone.
Boulevard Diner, Wocester, MA


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Boulevard Diner, Wocester, Massachusetts
The Boulevard Diner is a Worcester (#730) from 1937. It still has the original oak and gumwood interior.
Zippy the Pin Head visited the Boulevard Diner.

5 & Dime Diner, Wocester, MA


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5 & Dime Diner, Wocester, Massachusetts
The 5 & Dime diner is a new diner made to look old. Still a great place to visit with lots of 50's decor inside.
Don's Diner, Plainville, MA


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Don's Diner, Plainville, Massachusetts
Don's Diner was opened in 1936. At that time Dons was a Sterling made diner. At some point in time the diner changed to a DeRaffle or Jerry O'Mahony style diner. Today the Diner still has its basic shape outside with a few modern changes, like vinyl siding. Inside it is still a classic diner.
Jiggers Diner, East Greenwich, RI


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Jiggers Diner, East Greenwich, Rhode Island
Jigger Diner is presently housed in a thirty-six-seat 1940 Worcester Lunch Car (#826). It dates back however to 1917. Although it was used to store paint for a nearby harware store or 10 years starting in 1983, it has been restored inside to have many of its original elements.

Dells, Cumberland, RI


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Dells, Cumberland, Rhode Island
Grandfather Franco DeLucia brought his father's frozen lemonade recipe to America at the turn of the century. Angelo DeLucia, his son, began work on a machine to produce the frozen lemonade, and on a method of making it a consistently excellent product. In 1948, Del's Frozen Lemonade acquired it's name and became the sole product sold at a little stand in Cranston, Rhode Island.
Patriots Diner, Woonsocket, RI


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Patriots Diner, Woonsocket, Rhode Island
Patriots Diner is a Diner-Mite manufactured diner made in 2002. Originally called the Blue Onion, it changed to a Scrambler's Restaurant in 2004. In 2007 the diner became the Patriot's Diner.

Blue Plate Diner, Middletown, RI


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Blue Plate Diner, Middletown, Rhode Island
Blue Plate Diner is not a manufactured diner but it is still cool. And it has a great name!