American Diners Were Perfect... Until We Let This Happen

At a booth in the Athens Diner in Harrison, New Jersey, a little chrome box sat at the end of the table, and a dime dropped into its slot bought you one song. You flipped the metal pages with a knob, found a letter and a number, pressed two buttons, and the music came out right there beside the ketchup while your coffee went cold. This is how the most perfect room in America got let go. In this video: ✓ Walter Scott's lunch wagon in Providence ✓ The move to the suburbs in the 1950s ✓ Time magazine's 1954 suburbs story ✓ The mall food court Pawtucket. Harrison. Arlington. What was your diner called, and what town was it in? Tell us what you ordered, who stood behind the counter, and whether the place still has its lights on. Leave a good tip. AmericanDiners #DinerHistory #ClassicDiner #RetroAmerica #Nostalgia