Road Island Diner, commercieel gebouw in Utah, Verenigde Staten van Amerika
The Road Island Diner is a commercial building listed on the National Register of Historic Places, sitting in Oakley, Utah, and built in the Streamline Moderne style. It looks like a long, shiny railroad car, with smooth curved lines, a polished metal exterior, and rounded edges that run along the full length of the structure.
The diner was built in 1939 by the Jerry O'Mahony Diner Company in New Jersey and was shown at the New York World's Fair that same year. After the fair, it moved through Massachusetts and Rhode Island before arriving in Utah in 2007, where it reopened in Oakley in 2008.
The name of the diner points directly to its former home in Rhode Island, giving a hint of its long journey across the country. Eating there today feels like stepping into a piece of everyday American life from the mid-20th century, where a counter seat and a plate of food were the norm for travelers and workers alike.
The diner sits at the corner of SR-32 and Weber Canyon Road in Oakley, and the metal exterior makes it easy to spot from the road. The building can be seen from different angles, which makes it convenient to walk around and take in the full shape of the structure.
Although the diner is now fixed in Utah, it was assembled in a factory in New Jersey and shipped in sections, which was the standard method for diners of that era. This factory-built approach meant that a diner could be ordered like a product from a catalog, then delivered and set up almost anywhere in the country.
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