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The great lunch wagon and diner companies were all centered in the northeast. The fathers of diner manufacturing in the early twentieth century were shrewd entrepreneurs such as T. H. Buckley, who founded his company in Worcester, Massachusetts; Jerry O'Kahony, who operated out of Bayonne, New Jersey; and the "Dinera-Day Tierneys," with their factory in New Rochelle, New York.$ By 1948t ' 13 manufacturers were producing-250 diners annually at an average price of $36,ooo.9 The Mountain View Diner Company, builder of the Tastee 29 Diner, was formed by the partnership of Les Daniel and Henry Strys in 1939.10 Located outside of Mountain view, New Jersey, they remained in business until 1957. They employed streamline styling from the start and their craftsmanship quality was high. The Tastee 29 substantiates their slogan: "A Mountain View Diner will last a lifetime." In an August 1941 article in The Diner magazine, the Mountain View Company claimed to have only three of their "brand new" diners on site.12 Diners dating from before WWII were often styled with late Art Deco detail. Production of diners came to a virtual halt during the war and afterwards there was a stylistic change which reflected the streamlined motifs that had been developing just before and during the war. The Tastee 29 Diner shows streamlining in its curvilinear glass brick and stainless steel prows. This information was prepared January 30, 1992 by
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