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Introduction From the mid-1930s through the 1950s the diner was the ubiquitous roadside eatery, offering warm comfort and relatively quickly prepared home cooking. During the heyday of diners, it was possible to establish a successful business with a modest investment and a great deal of hard work. This architectural form developed in step with the popularization of the automobile during the Great Depression and World War II period. The diner was born amidst the urban environs of the northeast during the late nineteenth. century, but by the late 1920s diners were being located farther south-and west. Like many other diners, the Tastee 29 catered to travelers on a traditionally well-worn route. The tavern or inn would have been the earlier commercial restaurant entity, developing throughout the eighteenth century and lasting well into the twentieth as a viable form of business. The smaller restaurants and diners appearing beside these older establishments could compete as the demand for quick meal convenience was required by a car-mobile society. Unfortunately, the growth of the fast-food industry, during the second half of this century, has outdone the diner by refining convenience and swift service to a corporate science. The Tastes 29 Diner, because of its dedicated and growing clientele, including some who have defected from the fast-food eateries, has managed to survive and is the last operating diner in Fairfax City.
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