Silk City Diners was a division of the Paterson Wagon Company, later known at Paterson Vehicle Company, established by Everett Abbott Cooper and based in Paterson, New Jersey, which produced about 1,500 diners from 1926 until 1966.[1][2] Each was tagged with the year and order in which it was built; for example, 5607 would be the seventh diner manufactured in 1956.[3] Several have been listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP).
NRHP and other extant diners
- 1941 Silk City, Gilmore Car Museum, Hickory Corners, MI[4]
- Airport Diner, Kutztown, Pennsylvania
- Baby's Burgers & Shakes, State College, Pennsylvania, Silk City #3071
- Biscuits and Barbecue, Mineola, NY
- Chief Martindale Diner Claverack, NY, Silk City #5807 (NY23 x Taconic Parkway)
- Country Girl Diner, Chester, Vermont[5][6]
- Deligan's Diner (formerly the Blue Tone Diner),[7]
See also
External links
References
- North Jersey News and Information www.northjersey.com, retrieved 2024-12-29^
- Richard Gutman. American Diner Then and Now JHU Press, 2000^
- Diner FAQs^