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Route 40 Classic Diner
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Straight from the camera with no processing except for resizing and cropping. The day I took this, the sky was clear, blue and sunny and only an occasional cloud in the sky. This used to be the Blue Bird Diner in Mattoon, Illinois, original date unknown. It was bought and moved to its current location near Brownsville, Pennsylvania in 2006. It is Moderne style architecture with flat roof and glass blocks. I don’t know the material of construction.
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very cool!
I could imagine it being a bright and cheery place with all that natural light.
I hope the food is up to par!
Zeno! They have a loyal following.
Nice capture UP of a rare diner.
I believe, but could be wrong that PA has the most diners?
The mixed fruit pie and coffee were excellent and the service congenial. I have some interior shots that will be posted.
I can provide some details about this place. I’m from Mattoon. For years and years, Mattoon was home to a great little Italian restaurant called Tomaso’s. It was very popular, and my parents were engaged there. Tomaso’s was famous for an extensive Pinocchio collection. Memorabilia was up on all of the walls. Then the owners sold it, and the new owners eventually demolished it.
In its place, the Blue Bird Cafe was built. I believe it was a pre-fab sort of diner. In other words, you put most of it together from a kit. I never ate there, and I heard bad things from the people who did. The fact is that the food was not good.
And then there’s the other part of the story. The Blue Bird Diner became the most visible piece in an incredible tale. The diner was only there for a year or two when the U.S. Marshals Service seized the property and many others in the area. The Marshals Service attempted to sell it, but it didn’t get many good offers.
The restaurant sat empty for a few years. I believe it was finally sold separately from a bakery business located behind the diner. Several individuals from the small town were implicated for their role in a major scandal that was sort of a combination pyramid scheme and outright flim flam job. Many individuals spilled the beans on the main crooks, and those guys went to prison.
Here’s a Wikipedia link about the scandal itself:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omega_Trust
I just don’t want you to get the wrong idea. The Blue Bird Diner isn’t a historic restaurant by any means. Instead, it’s a reminder of what some truly bad people did in a small town, and seeing it makes me wish I could have one more lasagna night at Tomaso’s. I’d sit right next to the 3-foot-high wooden puppet.
It’s interesting, though, to see what happened to that building. We always heard that it had been moved in pieces to Pennsylvania.
Ronald, many thanks on the Illinois origins . . fascinating! I hope you find a worthy equivalent to Tomaso’s!
It looks like it’s stainless steel. Did you get a chance to eat there?
P.S. I saw from your comment that the pie was good, so I guess you did eat there!
LOL. Here’s what happened to our other Italian restaurant last winter.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mpd2l17/sets/72157623049881583/
Now this place was even more beloved. People cried when it burned.
Thom, stainless steel sounds good to me! It was brilliant in the sun.
Ronald, that is some set . . very powerful and sad.
Wow, a beautiful old diner with a past! It looks great!
love those old diners!!, this one is quite large & deco-ish….
Thank you . . amazing outside and in.
this is such a cool looking place! im looking for my poodle skirt now!!!!
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Thank you, maeame . . and behave yourself! lol
Thanks for mapping this, I’ll have to look for it next trip to Brownsville!
The diner is spic and span and, for me, a total delight. Thanks for the view and comment. Hope you make it there!
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Thank you, federico.paul.
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Thank you, paspog!
Nice find – well seen!
Thank you. I did have pie and coffee but nothing like the savory looking items you’ve been producing!
I revel inside the submit. Substantially cheers once more. Terrific.