Route 66 Valentine Diner

by Priscilla Burgers

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Route 66 Valentine Diner

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Priscilla Burgers

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Photograph - Photography

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***2 TIME CONTEST WINNER***
ROUTE 66 VALENTINE DINER by PRISCILLA BURGERS

This Valentine Diner was opened for business on Route 66 in 1956 in Shamrock, Texas by M.L. Porter and his wife, Alta and was known as the Porter House Cafe. It was closed in 1964 and is now on display at the Route 66 Museum in Clinton, Oklahoma. The Valentine Manufacturing Company in Wichita, Kansas built Valentine Diners between 1938 and 1954. They were the only significant diner manufacturer outside the northeast. The Valentine Diner was a small, boxy diner which was radically different from any other manufacturers. They had between five and ten stools around an L-shaped counter and often featured a take-out window. There were no tables and a lot of the time it was "standing room only." In order to pay the $5000 that these diners sold for, the owners were to place 10% of their daily gross income in a lock box that was situated by the front door of the diner. Each month a man from the train would come by, open the box, and send the payment to the manufacturer. The trainman was the only person that had a key to the lock box.

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