Mickey's Diner

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Mickey's Diner
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Mickey's Dining Car
Mickey's Dining Car
Location: 36 W. 7th Street
Saint Paul, Minnesota
Coordinates: 44°56′51″N 93°5′52″W / 44.9475, -93.09778Coordinates: 44°56′51″N 93°5′52″W / 44.9475, -93.09778
Built/Founded: 1937
Architect: Jerry O'Mahoney Company
Added to NRHP: February 24, 1983
NRHP Reference#: 83000936

Mickey's Diner is a classic Art Deco diner car restaurant in Saint Paul, Minnesota. It was prefabricated in New Jersey, shipped to Saint Paul by rail, and installed downtown just before World War II. It looks much like it did then and is still open 24 hours a day (and according to its employees, non-stop since it started). It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983 as the only building of its kind in Minnesota. It is shown in several Hollywood movies, including The Mighty Ducks, Jingle All the Way, and A Prairie Home Companion, where it is featured prominently in the opening and closing scenes.

There is an additional location in the West 7th/Sibley neighborhood of Saint Paul that is decorated in the manner of a 1950s diner rather than the rail-car diners of the Great Depression and the Second World War.

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