Miss Mendon was born on the drawing board at the Worcester Dining Car Company in 1950 in Worcester, Massachusetts. After 64 years of traveling, she found a home in Mendon in the Blackstone Valley.
Miss Mendon began life as Miss Newport — Worcester Dining Car number #823. She has been repainted, re-tiled, given a bigger dining room and a modern kitchen. She’s had a long life and seen hard times, but despite everything, she has survived with grace and character.
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Miss Mendon was a rescue operation by a rich guy who loves diners. It was falling to pieces somewhere and he found it and hauled to home, restore it, and now it’s not only a pretty good place to eat, but really looks like it ought. He did add a wing because those Worcester Dining Cars are very small.
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If I was rich I would probably rescue old diners…or even old steam engines…and add them to my collection of rescued old manual typewriters (and strange fossils) ☺️Loved the photos, thank you
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That’s just what my son wanted to do. He turned out to be a bit short of funds. The diner and the restoration he could manage … but the land and all the permits and furnishing the kitchen … it was a bit much. Many people have done it in the past 25 years and we are all the richer for it.
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Mebbe Miss Mendon, tonight? Mebbe.
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Works for me!
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If i ever get near that place … “Outta my way!”
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It’s as nice as it looks, too. Good food, good service. GREAT ambiance.
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Neat diner. We used to have a couple of those around Toronto.
Leslie
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There are still a lot of them in New York, but Massachusetts, which was the birthplace of diners, had almost none when I got here in 1987. Now, there are quite a few. It has been a bit of a rebirth, you might say. For which I am personally grateful. I love diners.
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I would go out for breakfast more often if we would have such an interesting place nearby.
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We have another one — also a Worcester Dining Car — in the middle of town that serves ONLY breakfast. It is named (aptly) Mom’s Diner.
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sounds heavenly. I love recycled things 🙂
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This is recycled in the best possible way 🙂
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What a great-looking diner! (Fab photos!)
~Theadora
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It is beautifully restored … and the food’s pretty good, too!
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I would love to have my breakfast in such a cool place ! Great shots.
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So far, it has served up a pretty good meal every time we’ve been there. We have a tiny old diner in town that serves ONLY breakfast and closes in mid-afternoon for the day .. and another old place (not a diner, though) which also serves only breakfast through lunchtime. Which is where we go when we feel like over-indulging our breakfast hunger. Breakfast is my favorite meal 🙂
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Mine too. I like to have English breakfast. Continental stuff like porched eggs, muffins, baked potatoes, mushrooms, bacon, sausages, omelette are Tarun and children’ s favorite and I love south Indian dishes.
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The problem is, we eat less and less for breakfast. Now, I sometimes make “breakfast for dinner.” I love the variety of dishes. If you have any recipes to share, I’d love to have them!
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Absolutely.
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yep there’s an intimacy about diners that I love. And how wonderful it’s been saved not just as a landmark but as a working diner. We should all look this good at 64
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It’s the booths. They make you feel like you have your own little room.
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That looks like a place that serves good food.
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Indeed, it does. One of the few places in the area that does serve good food!
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Cool photos.
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And it came with a nice lunch, too 🙂
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I love stuff like this…
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A very lovely diner. And they restored it without “modernizing” it.
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