The restaurant has been enlarged over the years. The chain broke up by the early 60’s and this unit was taken over by an employee who through hard work and perserverance made it a huge success.

Originally part of a small chain of resaturants opened by the Prince Spaghetti Company, operated as the Prince Spaghetti Houses. Just down the streetįrom the Miss Albany Diner Prince Pizzeria and Restaurant Nipper (on building)īroadway, Albany, NY. Route 9A, Albany Post Road, Buchanan, NY Salvador’s Ice Cream (Milk Can)Ĥ60 Smith Neck Road, South Dartmouth, Mass., photo circa 1980’s. Frates Dairy (another Milk Bottle shaped building)Īchushnet Avenue, New Bedford, Mass. It is currently in it’s third location and is a local landmark, used to sell souvenirs. The Big Duck was built by a local farmer to sell duck eggs in the 1930’s. A new housing development is now being built there. The restaurant closed by the 1960’s and the house was the only structure that remained to remind anyone of what had been there. Sailor Tom’s house was part of a unique roadside restaurant that was a destination from the 1940’s through the 1950’s. Sailor Tom’s Houseįranklin Street, Reading, Mass. Located on Route 129 in Wakefield, Mass., photo circa 1980’s Anyway, here are a few images of places that I had included in a power point slide show I did a couple of years ago I called “Local Roadside Memories”. These included what is generally known as “Programatic Architecture”, basically buildings in the shape of what they sell or in the shape of other things such as “ships” and “boats”. But also, being a member of the Society for Commercial Archeology since 1981, I have been moved to document other roadside places that were interesting. Over the years, I have photographed many diners.

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