- 29 Diner
The 29 Diner is a
diner inFairfax, Virginia located near the intersection ofRoute 29 (Lee Highway ) &Virginia State Route 123 .History
The 29 Diner opened on
July 20 ,1947 . It was built by theMountain View Diner Company ofSingac, New Jersey . In 1973 the Tastee Diner company bought the location and it became the "Tastee 29 Diner".In 1992, a declaration was made for the diner to be a
historic landmark . Marc Christian Wagner, an Architectural Historian from theCharlottesville based Preservation Associates of Virginia organization wrote the statement of significance. The opening of the statement declares:Thus, in 1992 the Tastee 29 Diner was added to the list of
National Register of Historic Places .In the late-1990s Fredy and Ginger Guevara (Ginger being a former waitress of the 29 Diner in the mid-1960s) bought the location and restored its original name of 29 Diner.
For years the diner was open twenty four hours a day, seven days a week, with the exception being
Christmas Day . As of September 2008 the diner closes Monday nights due to the recession facing the United States.Culture
Fairfax, Virginia mayor
Robert Lederer has made a recent annual tradition of dining at the 29 Diner on Thanksgiving.John Walsh of host of "America's Most Wanted " made a visit to the diner in 1999 with two bodyguards.Bill Griffith featured 29 Diner in theJuly 23 ,2003 installment of "Zippy the Pinhead ".External links
* [http://www.29diner.com/ Official website]
* [http://www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/VA/Fairfax/state.html National Register of Historic Places - Fairfax County, Virginia]
* [http://masonwiki.wetpaint.com/page/29+Diner?t=anon 29 Diner at MasonWiki]
* [http://members.aol.com/vkff2000/last2003.htm 2003 Val Kilmer Film Festival (mention made of 29 Diner)]Navbox
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