Silk City Diners

Silk City Diners was a division of the Paterson Wagon Company, later known at Paterson Vehicle Company, established by Everett Abbott Cooper and based in Paterson, New Jersey, which produced about 1,500 diners from 1926 until 1966.^[1][2] Each was tagged with the year and order in which it was built; for example, 5607 would be the seventh diner manufactured in 1956.^[3] Several have been listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP).

Silk City Diner 4655 in Clinton County, Ohio

Tom's Diner, circa 1930, was built in Paterson, NJ by the Silk City Dining Car Company

NRHP and other extant diners

• 1941 Silk City, Gilmore Car Museum, Hickory Corners, MI^[4]
• Airport Diner, Kutztown, Pennsylvania
• Baby's Burgers & Shakes, State College, Pennsylvania, Silk City #3071
• Biscuits and Barbecue, Mineola, NY
• Country Girl Diner, Chester, Vermont^[5][6]
• Deligan's Diner (formerly the Blue Tone Diner),^[7] Silk City #4824. Formerly in Peekskill, NY; now in private hands in Massachusetts.
• Delta Diner, Delta, Wisconsin
• The Diner, Horseheads, New York
• Doyle's, Selbyville, Delaware
• Exmore Diner, Exmore Virginia Number 45103
• Fezz's Diner, Coudersport, Pennsylvania
• Kims Classic Diner Sabina, Ohio
• Lawrence Park Dinor, Lawrence Park, Pennsylvania
• Miss Albany Diner
• Norm's Diner, Groton, Connecticut, 1953. Formerly Paula's, and Tugboat Annie's^[8]
• Roadside Diner, Wall, New Jersey^[9][10]
• Route 30 Diner, Ronks, Pennsylvania^[11]
• Village Diner, Red Hook, New York
• Silk City Diner, Lounge, and Garden, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania^[12]
• Tic Tock Diner, Clifton, New Jersey^[13]
• West Shore Diner, Lemoyne, Pennsylvania

See also

• Fodero Dining Car Company
• Jerry O'Mahony Diner Company
• Kullman Dining Car Company
• Mountain View Diners Company
• Worcester Lunch Car Company