![]() It stayed at that storage location through 1981. So after it closed in 1979, the diner was moved to Pat’s Towing Company yard in the Cambridgeport neighborhood, just outside of Central Square in Cambridge. Dick was kind enough to lend me this image (below) of the Englewood Diner when it was located across from Ashmont Station in Peabody Square, Dorchester….Įnglewood Diner, 1970s vintage photo by Richard J.S. But luckily it was documented by others like David Hebb and Dick Gutman. This was almost a year before I started photographing diners so I never was able to document it in that location. It closed in 1979 when the land it was on was slated to be redeveloped, replaced by a high-rise building for senior housing. When I returned her call, Laurie informed me that the restored diner is being used for corporate functions only and not open to the public (as I suspected).Īs I mentioned above, the Englewood Diner operated for years in the Peabody Square neighborhood of Dorchester. Within a couple of hours my wife Denise called to let me know there was a message from someone named Laurie at New Balance. Interior view of the Red Line Diner, Brighton, Mass.Įarly on the next week I did some digging and was able to leave a message to a department in the corporate offices at New Balance Footwear. The interior did not need much as the following photos show…. Even the roof shingles look similar though not identical to what had previously been there, giving it a period look in keeping with the original style of the diner. Certainly a reasonable facsimile of the originals… and let me be clear, this was professionally done. ![]() In looking closely at the exterior, the new steel panels seem to be painted instead of the porcelain enameled panels it originally had. So, the 25th being a Friday, I decided to take a ride over to Brighton to check out this new location the very next day, where I managed to shoot some nice photos of it. In fact a huge part of this rebirth can be directly attributed to New Balance Footwear as their Headquarters is located within a block of this property. The area was once primarily a mix of houses and somewhat run-down industrial buildings that has had a rebirth with parts of it being resurrected as an upscale office park. Red Line! According to the email, it was located down behind 38 Everett Street in the Brighton section of Boston. “Did you know about this”? I checked out the photos and low and behold, there was the former Englewood Diner looking to be completely restored on the exterior, sporting a new name…. The message that accompanied the photos was short and sweet…. I asked Roger and Daryl what happened to the Englewood and they told me that the owner of New Balance Footwear had purchased it and moved it to an undisclosed location.įast forward to October 25, 2013, when I received an email from Randy Garbin that had some attached photos from someone named Todd Purple. When we got into the yard I noticed the only diners left were the Monarch and the Olympian. The diners included the Miss Newport Diner of Newport, VT (now the Miss Mendon of Mendon, Mass.) the Englewood Diner last operated in Dorchester, Mass., and the Olympian Diner formerly of Braintree, Mass. ![]() Dave Pritchard of Salisbury had started buying old diners a number of years ago and storing them at his truck/trailer company yard in Salisbury. The diner had not been in service since the early 1970s when it last operated in South Berwick, Maine. Now on to the subject of this post……Ī year ago Denise and I had made a trip (along with Beth Lennon and Cliff Hillis) up to Salisbury, Massachusetts to meet with Roger Elkus and Daryl McGann who had purchased the former Monarch Diner, originally of Dover, NH. I will eventually do a post about it here in the near future. Better late than never! I actually turned it into a slide show movie which can be found on Youtube………. So for almost 3 weeks, I spent the extra time I had scanning all the images. Well, with all the new digital technology at my disposal nowadays, I could finally keep my promise. This plan sort of became cost restrictive when I realized how many images there were. I had promised my friend Arnie Corrado (son of former owner Ralph Corrado, Jr.) back then that I would give him copies of all the photos I had shot. The bulk of the slides came from the last weekend of operation in January of 1990 and the preparation for moving the structure on the next weekend. They were all of the photos/slides I had ever shot of Rosie’s Diner when it was in Little Ferry, NJ. I have been a little remiss in posting anything throughout November as I was scanning a bunch of slides, 180 or so (to be sort of exact). Red Line Diner, now located in Brighton, Mass.įormerly the Englewood Diner of Dorchester, Mass.
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