The Deluxe Town Dinah. GX1, Leitz Summaron 35mm.

Today's Blip is of a well-known and much-loved classic American rail car diner. It has been in continuous operation since 1947. The diner is in Watertown, home to the third largest Armenian community in the diaspora. Specifically, it is in the centre of what I have heard referred to as the Armenian "Fruit District", since here lives a collection of shops selling baked good, fruits, nuts, olive oils and goat cheese in fifty different sharps and flats, and other Mediterranean delights.
The rail car diner is an American genre taking its origins from the great days of the railroad in this country. Wiki tells me that the finest examples have stainless steel exterior plating to resemble, even more closely, a passenger carriage, and specifically the magnificent Burlington Zephyr of 1934. It doesn't get more Deco than that. I have visited this place often; the food is home-style, the atmosphere informal and neighborly. I chose to use a lens for this Blip which belonged to my late father: This is the Summaron 35mm f1:3.5, another Leitz stalwart offered in the catalog from 1948-1960. Mine is from 1957. The lens glass was recently cleaned which has drastically reduced its tendency to flare. I find the signature neutral; "just the facts, please", and a definite keeper.