Word: diner
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Martin, who works the night shift at the Tasty, said he was more discouraged by the diner's prospects. He said he wondered if the Tasty's fight against the bank to preserve the building created enmity between the two businesses...
...Martin, who works the night shift at the Tasty, said he was more discouraged by the diner's prospects. He said he wondered if the Tasty's fight against the bank to preserve the building created enmity between the two businesses...
News of the pending move and possible end to The Tasty had already reached patrons of the small diner...
...this tectonic tumult, the structures of civilization seem to teeter. The schools and supermarkets are surrounded, as often as not, by fresh-dug earth, and what's not being built is being shored up or razed. Just off Highway 50 the settlement of Frenchman--once home to a diner, a gas station and a motel--was purchased by the Navy several years ago and leveled to make a bombing range...
...much? This was an easy town to get rich in if you timed things right. But those blessings now carry burdens. The townsfolk have gone from acquiring wealth to managing it--knowing when to cut the right deal and let other ones go by. At Bunting's English Diner, where Mayor Jim Mathias and three of his predecessors gather early to sort through the day's problems, they like to recall how simple it used to be. Back in the '30s, when their fathers came to build the WPA beach-front barriers, vacant lots were auctioned for $50 apiece. "Anyone...