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Mickey's Diner
Mickey's Dining Car
Location: 36 W. 7th Street
Saint Paul, MinnesotaCoordinates: 44°56′51″N 93°5′52″W / 44.9475°N 93.09778°WCoordinates: 44°56′51″N 93°5′52″W / 44.9475°N 93.09778°W Built: 1937 Architect: Jerry O'Mahony Diner Company NRHP Reference#: 83000936 Added to NRHP: February 24, 1983 Mickey's Diner is a 50' x 10' classic Art Deco diner car restaurant in Saint Paul, Minnesota. It was prefabricated in New Jersey by the Jerry O'Mahony Diner Company of Elizabeth, New Jersey, in 1937 serial # 1067, shipped to Saint Paul by rail, and installed downtown just before World War II. It looks much like it did then and is still open 24 hours a day (and according to its employees, non-stop since it started). It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983 as the only building of its kind in Minnesota. It is shown in several Hollywood movies, including The Mighty Ducks, Jingle All the Way, and A Prairie Home Companion, where it is featured prominently in the opening and closing scenes.
There is an additional location in the West 7th/Sibley neighborhood of Saint Paul that is decorated in the manner of a 1950s diner rather than the factory manufactured diners of the Great Depression and the Second World War. The West 7th/Sibley neighborhood location is under different management.
See also
For other historic diners in the same architectural style see:
- Miss Albany Diner in Albany, New York
- Road Island Diner in Oakley, Utah (previously sited in Middletown, Rhode Island and transported to Utah in 2007)
- Village Diner in Red Hook, New York
Mickey's Diner has also been used in two of Alexander O'neals Videos.."Innocent", and "What's Missing Album Cover" as well as Pet Shop Boys "Where The Streets Have No Name (I Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You)" video.
External links
- Mickey's Diner website
- Mickey's Diner at the National Register of Historic Places
- A Breakfast Review from Twincitiesbreakfast.com
- Scene from the 2008 Republican National Convention in St. Paul during the riots
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