Heritage Harbor Museum( The American Diner Museum) - Oddball Museums on Waymarking.com

This museum is Rhode Island's first statewide history museum and heritage center, and is the only New England museum affilliate of the Smithsonian Institute. The beginning of the diner concept is credited to Walter Scott, a part time pressman at the Providence Journal newspaper in Providence, Rhode Island. In 1872, Scott began to sell prepared food from a converted horse-drawn freight wagon outside the newspaper's building. In doing so, Walter Scott unknowingly inspired the birth of what would become one of America's most recognized icons -- the diner.The collection of the museum also contains company records, drawings, promotional brochures and equipment from several diner manufacturing companies. This list includes the Ward and Dickinson Company, Worcester Lunch Car Company, Silk City Diners, Paramount Diners, Liberty Dining Car Company, Superior Dining Cars, Sorge Diners, Jerry O'Mahony Dining Car Company, Valentine Manufacturing, Bixler Diners, Mulholland Diners, J.J. Hennigan and his Franklin Cafe Lunch Wagons.

The Diner Museum has many items from actual diners that are integral in exhibits about individual diners, demolished diners and the various aspects of the diner industry. Some specific items are available for use in diners under going restoration. We have acquired many vintage signs from diners that were relocated or demolished

Days and Hours of Operation: 7 days a week 9 to 4 Address: 222 Richmond St # 206 Providence, Rhode Island USA 02903 What is in the collection: Diners Related Website: Not listed Price of Admission: Not Listed

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