The End of an Era for New Bedford’s Great Diners

As soon as the go-to hangout for teenagers, the American diner is without doubt one of the most beloved remnants of mid-century America. The query is, will these prefab O’Mahony’s, Worcester Lunch Automobile and Tierney’s ever have a renaissance like they did again within the Fifties?

The New Bedford space had its fair proportion of nice diners, and nonetheless does. One, although, that is vanished into the diner hereafter is the basic Inexperienced Diner that was on Rockdale Avenue within the South Finish.

At the moment, we mentioned goodbye to Paul Tsonis, Inexperienced Diner’s longest proprietor. He and his hard-working household constructed a fantastic popularity by staying on high of every thing, and that onto itself is a herculean activity within the restaurant business.

Households used at hand down companies, technology to technology, however lots of the children who had been introduced up serving to mother and pa within the kitchen realized the backbreaking tempo and stress that is married to proudly owning a diner, and determined this is not the trail they’d wish to be on for his or her profession.

Occasions have modified. With a plethora of latest restaurant genres popping up, I do not see a major cultural change occurring to deliver again the diner. Jake’s Diner and Mattapoisett Diner are going nice, however there’s not a requirement for extra diners on the SouthCoast.

Diners have been a part of American life for over 140 years. They’ve performed an essential function in feeding households for reasonable, in addition to a major function in artwork, from Regular Rockwell to Edward Hopper. Barry Levinson’s basic movement image Diner had the blue-plate magic to begin a revival throughout the nation that helped deliver again the recognition of diners – however I do not see modern-day tradition repeating that development.