Today, Erin and I headed over to Vermont to finish up some Christmas shopping. The NH/VT state border is about 40 minutes from Dublin School and an easy and relaxing drive. Soon after crossing the border, we started looking for a place to have lunch.
Now the great thing about New England is that diners have never really gone out of style and you can find them in just about any town or village. We found the diner in the picture above in Bellows Falls (not to be confused with Bedford Falls in "It's a Wonderful Life") and grabbed a booth.
We soon found out that the place is owned and operated by a married couple that are two Wall Street retirees (refugees), and that they were from Sarasota at one time. The wife waits tables and the husband works in the kitchen.
"This is harder than Wall Street", the wife told us as she tended to the five or six booths and the ample counter seats. Apparently her husband "surprised" her with the purchase of the diner and they've been throwing money into it since that time since it's a box car diner that was constructed in the early '20s.
The best thing in the "Miss Bellows Falls Diner" has to be the signed cast picture from "Mels Diner" that hangs between the two bathroom doors.
Priceless.
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