The Bendix Diner in Hasbro Heights, New Jersey is an example of Art Deco style and neon signage A Bayonne, New Jersey, man by the name of Jerry O'Mahony is credited by some to have made the first "diner".The Jerry O'Mahony Diner Company of Elizabeth, New Jersey, produced 2,000 diners from 1917 to 1952. Only an estimated 4 O'Mahony diners are known to still be operating, including one in Church Presley, South Derby shire, England, and a 1938 model in Summit, NJ along with the Road Island Diner in Oakley, Utah. One of the original ones displayed at the 1939 New York World's Fair, made by Paramount Diners, is still in operation as the White Manda in Jersey City.
As the number of seats increased, wagons gave way to pre-fabricated buildings made by many of the same manufacturers who had made the wagons. Like the lunch wagon, a diner allowed one to set up a food service business quickly using pre-assembled constructs and equipment.Interior of the 1938 sterling manufactured diner in Wellsboro, Pennsylvania - note curved ceiling
Until the Great Depression, most diner manufacturers and their customers were located in the Northeast. Diner manufacturing suffered with other industries in the Depression, though not as much as others, as people still had to eat, and the diner offered a less expensive way of getting into the restaurant business as well as less expensive food than more formal establishments. After World War II, as the economy returned to civilian production and the suburbs boomed, diners were an attractive small business opportunity. During this period, diners spread beyond their original urban and small town market to highway strips in the suburbs, even reaching the Midwest, with manufacturers such as Valentine.
As the number of seats increased, wagons gave way to pre-fabricated buildings made by many of the same manufacturers who had made the wagons. Like the lunch wagon, a diner allowed one to set up a food service business quickly using pre-assembled constructs and equipment.Interior of the 1938 sterling manufactured diner in Wellsboro, Pennsylvania - note curved ceiling
Until the Great Depression, most diner manufacturers and their customers were located in the Northeast. Diner manufacturing suffered with other industries in the Depression, though not as much as others, as people still had to eat, and the diner offered a less expensive way of getting into the restaurant business as well as less expensive food than more formal establishments. After World War II, as the economy returned to civilian production and the suburbs boomed, diners were an attractive small business opportunity. During this period, diners spread beyond their original urban and small town market to highway strips in the suburbs, even reaching the Midwest, with manufacturers such as Valentine.
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