Traveling through north east America this summer, we came across a true American phenomenon: the diner.

History according to the American Diner Museum
The origins of the diner can be traced to Walter Scott, a part-time pressman and type compositor in Providence, Rhode Island. Around 1858 when Scott was 17 years old he supplemented his income by selling sandwiches and coffee from a basket to newspaper night workers and patrons of men’s club rooms. By 1872 business became so lucrative that Scott quit his printing work and began to sell food at night from a horse-drawn covered express wagon parked outside the Providence Journal newspaper office. In doing so, Walter Scott unknowingly inspired the birth of what would become one of America’s most recognized icons.

Below is our photo essay of the diner we visited and fell in love with in Shirley, Massachusetts.

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The American Diner Museum