{"id":311,"date":"2014-12-31T11:07:07","date_gmt":"2014-12-31T16:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/larry-johnston.com\/wordpress\/?p=311"},"modified":"2021-02-22T17:47:13","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T22:47:13","slug":"rosies-diner-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/larry-johnston.com\/?p=311","title":{"rendered":"Rosie’s Diner 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Copyright Larry Johnston<\/p>\r\n

“Rosie’s Diner”<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

Rockford, Michigan<\/p>\r\n

Most everyone has seen photos of Rosie’s Diner, some with miniature lights for tail lights and in strategic areas of the photo that you could hang in your recreation room, or maybe the kitchen.\u00a0The painting above, is also of\u00a0Rosie’s Diner. Let me tell you the story of how this painting started.<\/p>\r\n

While participating in the #1 Art Show, at the time,\u00a0in the country, which was Coconut Grove, Florida, I met a ceramic artist\u00a0who made miniature diners that had neon on them.\u00a0 It was great work.\u00a0 The artist, Jerry Berta, told me a story\u00a0that fascinated me.\u00a0 I had seen those photos in stores and restaurants, I mentioned above.<\/p>\r\n

Jerry\u00a0had a REAL diner, that he used as a studio to make his miniature diners. People would show up at his door, wanting to buy diner food, and he had to explain to them, it was only his studio.\u00a0 Then he had the opportunity to purchase a diner in Little Ferry, New Jersey.\u00a0 They were going to get rid of the diner to make room for what they called “Progress” and offered Jerry a deal, he couldn’t refuse.<\/p>\r\n

The Silver Dollar Diner, was the name of the Diner, where the well-known commercial with Rosie, the waitress, advertised paper towels. Jerry accepted the deal and moved it to Michigan. He said he only\u00a0had 10 flat tires during the move. When he arrived in Rockford, he renamed the Diner, ‘Rosie’s.\u00a0 It was located\u00a0in the same parking lot as his other diner and sold regular Diner Food.<\/p>\r\n

On various nights of the month, he would turn on the neon lights and allow people to photograph their classic cars in the watered-down parking lot, which shows the reflections\u00a0of the neon.<\/p>\r\n

While in Greenville, Michigan at an Art Festival, I took time to stop there and photograph the diner.\u00a0 The painting above is from the photos\u00a0I took that day.<\/p>\r\n

Other Silver Diner Paintings I have done are:\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

Pelican Diner, St. Pete Beach<\/a>;\u00a0 \u00a0Inside the Silver Diner, Red trim<\/a>;\u00a0 \u00a0Inside the Silver Diner, pink<\/a><\/p>\r\n

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Copyright Larry Johnston “Rosie’s Diner” Rockford, Michigan Most everyone has seen photos of Rosie’s Diner, some with miniature lights for tail lights and in strategic areas of the photo that you could hang in your recreation room, or maybe the kitchen.\u00a0The painting above, is also of\u00a0Rosie’s Diner. Let me tell you the story of how […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[329,19,29,141,9,140,139,57],"tags":[870,344,354,353,352,337],"class_list":["post-311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-24-x-36","category-automobiles","category-diners","category-fast-food-restaurants","category-michigan","category-restaurants","category-restaurants-and-fast-food","category-rockford","tag-larry-johnston-nostalgia","tag-michigan","tag-rockford","tag-rosies","tag-rosies-diner","tag-silver-diner","clear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/larry-johnston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/larry-johnston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/larry-johnston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larry-johnston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larry-johnston.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/larry-johnston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3163,"href":"https:\/\/larry-johnston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions\/3163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/larry-johnston.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larry-johnston.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larry-johnston.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}