![]() It was very stylish with large plate glass windows. I can only conjecture that the flat roof of the diner had problems over the years and the owner added this slanted roof over the structure.Īs one can see, this was a fairly small diner for the time period. This photo and the following three photos were shot in August of 1983 showing this diner in great detail. The ad depicted this very diner and stated the owner was Sam Schwartz (hence the name Sambo’s).Īdvertisement from May, 1956 issue of Diner & Drive-In magazine The ad was featured in a rare edition of the trade publication “Diner & Drive-In” magazine dating from May of 1956. ![]() Ironically, I received a scan of an ad from Jeff Kunkle of Vintage Roadside a few years ago. it was a pretty rare configuration built by Paramount Diners of Haledon, NJ. ![]() The next diner heading east on Pleasant St. There is currently an “L” shaped modern professional building on this site. The diner itself was gone by the late 1980’s, reportedly destroyed in a fire. The obituary mentioned that he was the owner of the Paramount Diner/Catering for 35 years. Mister Ciosek passed away on Apat the age of 93. In doing some research for this post I came across an obituary from the Fall River Herald News dated Apfor Peter Ciosek. The only big difference is the windows on the side of the addition which were covered in the earlier shots are now uncovered, at least on the outside. No more T-111 has been installed (or finished for that matter). Here we see the diner in April of 1984 looking to be in similar condition. In this second shot from the same visit in July of 1981, you can see the diner was attached to a larger building in the rear which itself was attached to what looks to be an old gas station-type building. The diner was just being used for a catering operation at this time. It looks like the owners were covering the exterior with T-111 wooden panelling. I do not know the exact date as it was taken just before I started the diner log in July of 1981. This is from my first visit to document diners in Fall River. Paramount Diner/Catering at 171 Pleasant St. As I understand it, this operated at this location as the State Diner circa 1940 and was renamed the Paramount Diner later. I suspect it was brought here from elsewhere (possibly the former Romeo’s Diner of nearby New Bedford). I was checking through some Worcester Lunch Car Company info and could not find a Worcester Diner of this style and size that was delivered brand-new from the factory to Fall River. This was a barrel-roofed Worcester Lunch Car dating from sometime in the 1930’s. The first diner, heading from west to east on this street was the Paramount Diner/Paramount Catering located approximately at 171 Pleasant St. Back in the 1980’s, Fall River still had 5 diners, 3 of them were located on Pleasant Street. ![]() ![]() To start off this little tour, I am going to take you for a ride down the main thoroughfare known as Pleasant Street. In this post I am going to talk about the South Coast city of Fall River. As the last 30 years have gone by, the amount of diners in these towns have also dwindled. The cities of Lowell, Attleboro and Lynn come to mind. I have probably written this before (in the book for sure), that back in the 1980’s, the old mill towns in Massachusetts still had high concentrations of diners left over from earlier decades. ![]()
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