Main Street Diner
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| National Register of Historic Places | |||
 The Lanna Thai Diner in 2011 |
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| location | Woburn , Massachusetts , United States | ||
| Coordinates | 42 ° 30 '30.5 " N , 71 ° 9' 37.3" W | ||
| Built | 1952 | ||
| architect | Worcester Lunch Car Company | ||
| Architectural style | Stainless steel diner | ||
| NRHP number | 00001340 | ||
| The NRHP added | November 22, 2000 | ||
Today's Lanna Thai Diner (formerly Jack's Diner , Stella's Diner or Main Street Diner ) is a diner built in 1952 in Woburn in the state of Massachusetts in the United States . It is one of the so-called "stainless steel dinners", as it consists largely of stainless steel, and was entered into the National Register on November 22, 2000 as part of the Multiple Property Submission Diners of Massachusetts MPS under the name Main Street Diner of Historic Places (NRHP). However, the current name is used in the following.
description
The Lanna Thai Diner is the only diner in Woburn and was one of the first of the Worcester Lunch Car Company's stainless steel type . It was custom-made in 1952 with the build number # 834 and is therefore not a series product. With a seating capacity of just 30 to 36 people, it is one of the smallest versions of this type of diner. The connection between the exterior made of steel and the interior made of wood is unique.
The diner is on the southern border of a business district in northern Woburn, just off Massachusetts Route 38 , which at this point is called Main Street and which gave the diner the name with which it was entered in the registry. Despite its proximity to a neighboring building, the diner is free and occupies its own property. It is the outside with stainless steel ( English stainless steel clad) connected to horizontal email -elements in royal blue showcases color. The central entrance is roofed and has a vestibule with a square base, the original door of which has been preserved. The rounded hipped roof with asphalt - shingles covered. A second entrance on the north side is not used and has no steps. Fluted pilasters support the construction between the windows . The kitchen is housed in a concrete extension at the back of the diner.
The interior is dominated by an L-shaped counter with 12 bar stools, while on the west side there are seats with tables. The original color scheme of light blue, cream and black - also on display in Wilson's Diner in Waltham - is still preserved in the original, as is the foot bar and the tiled walls below the windows.
Historical meaning
The Lanna Thai Diner is one of the first “Stainless Steel Diner” of the Worcester Lunch Car Company and illustrates the company's efforts to adapt its products to the changed market requirements after the Second World War . Before the diner was built in 1952, the Shipper's Diner, also built by the Worcester Lunch Car Company in 1937, was in the same location .
In 1937 the Shipper's Diner was one of a total of 41 restaurants in Woburn, but the only one called a diner. The building, which is still in use today, was delivered and set up as Jack's Diner on May 22, 1952 , but the name of the operator at the time was not recorded. Apparently it is a replacement for the restaurant car that was used in the same place until 1952. The owner is also not named in the city records until 1970.
The dinner plays an important role in the development of the diner in Massachusetts because the manufacturer is recognized by him the effort, his older restaurant cars with barrel roof and email to modernize nose cone, as they were under increasing competitive pressure. The steel diners could be built much larger due to the sectional design and also offered new shapes and surfaces that the company had not previously had in its range. As a result, Worcester Lunch Car Company customers began to complain that the company was building "nothing up to date".
In 1952, the company therefore began to develop its own interpretation of the “Stainless Steel Diner” and delivered the Lanna Thai Diner as one of the first examples of this new development. Nevertheless, the owner Philip Duprey persistently refused to purchase new tools for the production of the stainless steel diner, which ultimately led to more and more customers turning to competitors and the Worcester Lunch Car Company had to cease business in 1961 after it had died in 1957 had sold last diner. In 1975, what was then Stella's Diner was immortalized by John Baeder in a painting.
See also
literature
- Kathleen Kelly Broomer, Betsy Friedberg: National Register of Historic Places Registration Form. (PDF) National Park Service , October 2000, accessed on July 21, 2016 (English, accessible via the "NR" button).
- Richard Gutman: American diner then and now . Harper Perennial, New York 1993, ISBN 978-0-06-096956-1 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ National Register Information System . In: National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service . Retrieved November 2, 2013.
- ↑ a b c cf. Broomer / Friedberg, p. 5.
- ↑ cf. Broomer / Friedberg, p. 6.
- ↑ a b c cf. Broomer / Friedberg, p. 7.
- ↑ John Baeder: Diners . Abrams, New York 1995, ISBN 978-0-8109-2611-0 .