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The diner is a purely American form of building. The first diner was the Pioneer Lunch wagon, operated by Walter Scott, of Providence, Rhode Islan4,, in 1872.2 By 1884 lunch wagons had developed from walk-up eateries to indoor stool-at-counter service restaurants. During the second decade of the twentieth century, the lunch wagon became less of a mobile restaurant, and the introduction of elaborate materials and decorative features became part of the customized package for purchase. During the 1920s the lunch wagon was more often called a diner because of its similarity to railroad dining cars.3 It was during this period that the diner began to take on its classic form: a stationary restaurant that included the luxury of booths (initially an idea to attract more families and female patrons)-" Essentially, by the 1930s, the business of Constructing and operating diners had become a fine-tuned system as had the manufacture of the automobile. With the popularization of industrial design, the diner evolved from a humble wooden wagon to the streamlined Modern design of the 1940s. The streamline strain of American modern architecture was derived through several sources. Coming originally from high-style architectural movements such as European Art Deco and the early International Style, American architects and industrial designers translated these styles into uniquely American forms that evoked static movement through the use of shaping and modern materials such as highly polished stainless steels The streamline designing proliferated: for example, the shimmering stainless steel curvilinear shape of a classic like the DC-3 airplane was alluded to by vacuum cleaners and irons. Beginning in the 1930s, the Machine-Age restaurant was manifested in the diner. It was the common man I s restaurant of the future. The design references to actual railroad dining cars became popular at this period. This has led to the erroneous assumption that Diners were an offshoot of the railroad and trolley car industry. Retired railcars and trolleys were often converted into diner-style eateries during the 1910a and the 1920s, and they successfully influenced the roof lines of diners through the 1940s. The Tastee 29 shows this influence in its simple monitor-style roof.
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