29 Diner

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The 29 Diner is a diner in Fairfax, Virginia located near the intersection of Route 29 (Lee Highway) & Virginia State Route 123.

[edit] History

The 29 Diner opened on July 20th, 1947. It was built by the Mountain View Diner Company of Singac, New Jersey. In 1973 the Tastee Diner company bought the location and it became the Tastee 29 Diner.

In 1992, a declaration was made for the diner to be a historic landmark. Marc Christian Wagner, an Architectural Historian from the Charlottesville based Preservation Associates of Virginia organization wrote the statement of significance. The opening of the statement declares:

"The Tastee 29 Diner is a rare survivor among the once-numerous streamlined Moderns diners that operated in the United States. While it in rare to find one of these 1940's diners still standing, it is even more unusual to find one still in operation. The high quality of this Mountain View diner has withstood the test of time in a hostile environment."

Thus, in 1992 the Tastee 29 Diner was added to the list of National Register of Historic Places.

In the late-1990s Fredy and Ginger Guevara (Ginger being a former waitress of the 29 Diner in the mid-1960s) bought the location and restored its original name of 29 Diner.

The diner is open twenty four hours a day, seven days a week, with the exception being Christmas Day.

[edit] Culture

Fairfax, Virginia mayor Robert Lederer has made a recent annual tradition of dining at the 29 Diner on Thanksgiving.

John Walsh of host of America's Most Wanted made a visit to the diner in 1999 with two bodyguards.

Bill Griffith featured 29 Diner in the July 23rd, 2003 installment of Zippy the Pinhead.

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