Valentine Diners - Southwest Kansas

Tribune

• Business name: 66 Grill
• Street address: Unknown
• Open or closed: Closed; scrapped
• History: This diner, last seen in a scrapyard at Horace, may also have traveled to St. Francis and Lamar, Colorado. For much of its time, it was likely on the east side of Tribune as a grill for a Phillips 66 gas station. It may have been known as the 66 Grill, the Duck Inn (where it allegedly had papier-mache ducks along the roof line--although they didn't last in wet weather), and the Top Lunch. The building probably dates from 1948. It was scrapped around the year 2000.
• Model / serial number: Aristocrat / 579

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What are Valentine Diners?

These small diners were built in Wichita for several decades from the late 1930s into the 1970s. Some are still open today. more