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Posted on 01/12/2009 8:54:12 PM PST by Coleus
Tums and Pepcid AC commercials were shot there. Noxema and Bank of America, too. So was part of Ang Lee's film "Ice Storm." Nickelodeon and TV Land have been there. The diner is a must-stop for location scouts who want an all-American (circa 1950s) small-town atmosphere, and artist John Baeder painted it lifelike, with a red Jeep Wagoneer and a vintage sky-blue Caddy parked outside, a full mast Stars & Stripes flapping above.
Among diner aficionados, the Harris remains a stainless steel fixture. It is on every diner-nut tour, like Diner-rama, and every list of must-sees by diner societies and clubs worldwide. It made USA Today's 50 Great Plates of America, and is a perennial favorite of The Star-Ledger's Munchmobile. Since 1951, it has stood at the corner of Washington Street and North Park Place in East Orange, a shining example, literally, of America's post-war, drive-up culture of chrome, fins and good times.
After good times became tough times, the Harris stayed, 24 hours a day, for decades. It became a time capsule, a slice of coconut custard American nostalgia. It was also a pretty good place to eat. "Fifty years is enough, don't you think?" said Bill Nicholas. Those are the 50 years Nicholas has owned it with the other Bill, his brother-in-law, Bill Marmaras. The two Bills married the daughters of Thomas Karayianis, the owner after Charles Harris.
Mary Karayianis was a cashier and Bill Nicholas was a cook when they met there in 1955, back in the days when the 125-seat diner could keep 15 waitresses hopping. Sunday night, at dinner time, Bill Marmaras was alone with one waitress and six customers at the counter. The booths, with their turquoise benches and flip-card jukeboxes, were empty.
(Excerpt) Read more at blog.nj.com ...
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[But no matter where the Harris ends up, its legacy will continue.]
Written at the end of the article. We’ll just have to pretend it’s still there..........somewhere!
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LOL, Snoopy looks like he’s having fun and Woodstock became the hood ornament..........wheeeeeee......
Too bad it’s ceramic!
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It is a panic!
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Yeah, it’s pretty cute. Wish it was a ‘real’ little car with Snoopy in it.
Late, late, 12:18 for you.
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Yup
The bell tolls for.....
I have that small resin Snoopy figure - It just ight fit in a 1/18 scale blue *98 Corvette I have
Gotta hit the sack -
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Yup, the bell tolled.
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