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diner, restaurant resembling the railroad dining car that is its source. In the mid-19th cent., the first dining cars that appeared on trains were nothing more than an empty car with a fastened-down table. George M. Pullman, who had begun producing sleeping cars in 1858, soon began designing a dining car. By 1868, Pullman had designed the luxuriously and meticulously appointed "club car." After 1900, these dining cars were sold and turned into roadside restaurants. In the 1920s and 30s, the diners that served America's growing highway system became a symbol of automobile travel. Diners from that era were sometimes art deco art deco or art moderne , term that designates a style of design that originated in French luxury goods shortly before World War I and became ubiquitously and internationally popular during the 1920s and 30s.
..... Click the link for more information. in design. Instead of the tables and white tablecloths of the early dining cars, they commonly had booths along one wall and a long counter down the other.

diner

1. a person eating a meal, esp in a restaurant

2. Chiefly US and Canadian a small restaurant, often at the roadside

3. a fashionable bar, or a section of one, where food is served

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