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2 unusual facts about Diner


Ruby's Diner

Ruby’s Diner is a restaurant chain that reproduces the look and feel of the classic American Diner.

The Toyminator

Jill has left Jack and he is now working in Nadine's Diner.


29 Diner

John Walsh of host of America's Most Wanted made a visit to the diner in 1999 with two bodyguards.

Alpha, Illinois

In the early 1980s, director Barry Levinson looked at Alpha's railroad car diner as a possible location for filming scenes for his movie Diner.

Boogies Diner

Boogies Diner (also known as Boogie's Diner) is a syndicated Canadian sitcom which first aired in 1994.

Capitol Diner

The J. G. Brill Company in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania built the diner unit in 1928.

Chaos and Desire

The film also stars Jean-Nicolas Verreault as Marc Vandal, a local pilot whose wife's recent death in a plane crash may be central to the tidal mystery; Julie Gayet as Catherine Rolland, Alice's lesbian friend from college who helps her investigate; and Geneviève Bujold as Colette Lasalle, the owner of the local diner who is convinced that the mystery has a supernatural explanation.

Dard Divorce

Tim slipped some E 605 into the coffee at the diner killing the mafiosi and then shoots the other party when they arrive to make the deal.

Donut Diner

At its peak, all Donut Diner locations were open 24 hours a day and was a major competitor to national donut giant Tim Hortons in Niagara and the GTA of Ontario.

Down In the Ground Where the Dead Men Go

Christie seems to have second thoughts; however, Stahma Tarr (Jaime Murray) intervenes, meeting Christie at the diner where she works and changing her mind.

Edward L. Masry

Ed Masry has a non-speaking cameo in the film Erin Brockovich as a diner patron sitting behind Julia Roberts, the same diner that cameos Erin Brockovich as a waitress.

Ellen Chenoweth

Barry Levinson's Diner, she cast many of the then relatively unknown actors such as Steve Guttenberg, Daniel Stern, Mickey Rourke, Kevin Bacon, Tim Daly, Paul Reiser, and Ellen Barkin.

Escape from Terror: The Teresa Stamper Story

Paul holds Teresa hostage until the next day, when she manages to escape him at a diner and runs to a business nearby, where she calls 9-1-1.

Flat as a Pancake

The diner photographed on the back cover of the A&M reissue is the Rite-Way Diner at 9638 Olive Blvd, Olivette, Missouri.

Frances Ashcroft

She appeared (as a diner) on MasterChef during the 2011 series, along with several other Fellows of the Royal Society.

Frogs for Snakes

Out of work actress Eva (Hershey), pays her way by working as a waitress at a diner in Manhattan's Lower East Side owned by Quint (Hart).

Gowanda, New York

Parts of the 1987 comedy movie Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, starring Steve Martin and John Candy, were filmed at the Gowanda Train Depot, as well as the Olympia Diner on Jamestown Street.

Haven Brothers Diner

Hosts Meredith Vieira and Matt Lauer (both of whom had worked at the NBC10 studios in Providence two blocks from Havens Brothers time-honored location beside Providence City Hall) had each -- independently -- chosen it as their favorite "old-time" diner.

Head of the Family

Loretta's problem is she's having an affair with Lance (Blake Bailey), owner of the town diner and Howard’s getting suspicious.

Katama

The term is also used in the street "Mattakesett Way" (runs along the east side of Katama Airpark and The Right Fork Diner to Navy Way (see aerial photo in Katama Airpark) and "Mattakesett Herring Creek" (a small tidal creek running parallel to South Beach that functioned as a herring run earlier in the 20th century; in recent years herring have returned in small numbers).

Long Walk Home

The video featured real-life scenes from Springsteen's Jersey Shore interpersed with shots of Springsteen at Asbury Park Convention Hall and at Tony's diner on Main Street in Freehold.

Maine Diner

The Maine Diner has served some famous guests, including boxing announcer Bob Sheridan, a Boxing Hall of Fame member; and Eddie Andelman, a sports radio talk host.

Mathieu Boogaerts

2006 – Le Grand Dîner (Tribute album for Dick Annegarn, with songs Les tchèques, and Bébé éléphant (duet with -M-)

Meet Virginia

"Meet Virginia" has a music video that takes place in a country diner and stars the actress Rebecca Gayheart.

Mel Sharples

Mel has always had three waitresses working at the diner - his longest-employed waitress was rambunctious Florence Jean Castleberry, better known as Flo; Vera Louise Gorman-Novak, was a shy, nervous woman from Boston; and Alice Hyatt who was born in New Jersey.

Mickey's Diner

The original Mickey's Diner appears in several Hollywood movies including The Mighty Ducks, Jingle All the Way, and A Prairie Home Companion.

Minto, New Brunswick

Currently, Minto has a Tim Hortons, Twins Pizza, Silver Dragon, Omega, Station House Pub, The Sun Rise Diner and Myjakins.

Music for Nitrous Oxide

Track seven features an audio clip of C.H. Evans who played Jack in Hap's Diner, in David Lynch's film, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me.

North Moore Street

The same West Broadway/N Moore corner has also been the location for the diner set of It Could Happen to You (1994 film), a set site for Zoolander (2001 film) and, in 2006, the location for a free-standing billboard advertising the animated film Enchanted.

Nurse Betty

In a small Kansas town, Betty (Renée Zellweger), a kind and considerate diner waitress, is a fan of the soap opera A Reason to Love. She has no idea that her husband, Del (Aaron Eckhart), a car salesman, is having an affair with his secretary and that he intends to leave Betty to pursue a relationship with the secretary.

Olympia Cafe

During the 1970s, there was a real-life Olympia Cafe on the Upper West Side of Manhattan which was very similar to the diner in the sketch.

According to Don Novello, who penned the first Olympia Cafe sketch, the diner was based on the Billy Goat Tavern on Lower North Michigan Avenue in Chicago, which is still operating (and part of a small chain).

Purple Onion

"D's Diner," a tribute to a Sebastopol, California restaurant, features sitar player Gabby La La in addition to the triple-bass onslaught of Claypool, Norwood Fisher (Fishbone) and Lonnie Marshall (Weapon of Choice).

Quality Cafe

The restaurant ceased to function as a diner in late 2006 but has appeared as a location featured in a number of Hollywood films, including Training Day, Old School, Se7en, Ghost World, Gone in 60 Seconds, The Stepfather, What's Love Got to Do with It and Catch Me If You Can.

Selfless, Brave and True

At Granny's Diner, Greg (Ethan Embry) is enjoying apple pie and learns that Regina (Lana Parrilla) had bought it for him as thanks for finding Henry.

Steve Tyrell

He recently produced That's Life, the debut album for Sony recording artist and winner of the 6th season of America's Got Talent, Landau Eugene Murphy, Jr. The album's vocal tracks were recorded at Wire Road Studios in Houston, Texas with the remainder of the album being recorded at Capitol Studios and Schnee Studios in Los Angeles and Deep Diner and Kilgore Sound in New York.

Superwoman Pt. II

The video then cuts to Lil' Mo working at a diner where she spots her love interest (portrayed by Jensen Atwood) exiting to attend a county fair.

Swimmer One

In 2006, Swimmer One collaborated with Edinburgh based theatre group Highway Diner on a show entitled We Just Make Music For Ourselves which was performed in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Biella, Italy.

The Irish Filmography

Back to the Future (1985) has a detailed entry, owing to a scene in the Diner at the beginning when local bully Biff Tannan refers to Marty's father as 'Irish' in a derogatory fashion.

U.S. Route 66 in California

This oversight has since been corrected; the diner remains open, complete with memorabilia of the roadside Texaco which is no longer in operation at the site.

Who's Gonna Save My Soul

A couple sits at a booth in a diner, while the woman (Friday Night Lights star Aasha Davis) breaks up with her boyfriend (Saturday Night Live writer and The Lonely Island band member Jorma Taccone).

Why I Left Harry's All-Night Hamburgers

A young man tells his story about growing up working at a greasy spoon diner near Sutton, West Virginia.


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