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  • A slice of nostalgia for sale: At diner, time for the next course

    01/12/2009 8:54:12 PM PST · by Coleus · 28 replies · 1,633+ views
    star ledger ^ | 09.09.08 | Mark Di Ionno
    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...
  • Proud to SERVE (NJ Diners)

    11/23/2008 5:13:34 PM PST · by Coleus · 10 replies · 606+ views
    northjersey.com ^ | 11.16.08 | ELISA UNG
    "How do you feel, good?" Eva Diakakis says to a longtime customer, Murray Rifkowitz, who is in for his daily breakfast at the Bendix Diner. To his son, Sheldon: "You want more coffee, Shelly? More coffee?" Diakakis grabs the pot of decaf, delivers their egg whites, potatoes and wheat toast. She makes it all look easy, when in fact under her quiet manner is a trove of knowledge honed from spending the past 27 years waitressing at the Hasbrouck Heights diner.  She knows that Murray Rifkowitz has health issues and requires salt-free food, and she even makes sure he occasionally...