Remember getting all dressed up to go out for a good dinner with the family or the place you ate all those hamburgers, fries and milkshakes when you were a teenager? York County Heritage Trust Assistant Librarian Victoria Miller has created a case exhibit of enlarged photos of some of those restaurants we remember from the 1930s to the 1960s.
The photo above shows the York Diner being moved in 1949. The one below captures the stationary diner about a decade before.
Remember the Tremont, Lau’s in Dover and Bortner’s on West Market Street? You can see these and more in the case right outside the YCHT Library/Archives door from nine to five Tuesdays through Saturdays. (250 East Market St., York.)
I don’t think you can dispute that York County people like to eat–what and where was your special restaurant meal?
Click this link for previous restaurant posts–mmmmm…Bury’s hamburgers, oysters and ice cream.
York, Pa., really is the center of the universe, especially when you consider its place in historical events. Local historian June Lloyd looks at how things have converged on our hometown, past and present. 
Do you know from where it was moved and to where it was moved? Is it no longer in business?
According to Victoria’s research, in 1939 it was at 37 N. George St., York, on part of what is now the Judicial Center site and moved in 1949 to 2333 E. Market St., which would put it the area of the small shopping center where Shelly Jewelers is and the Giant gas pumps. It might have been torn down when the shopping center was built–we’ll have to check the city directories. Thanks for asking.
my mothers favorite resturant was Mosers on king Street in west York. Also, many older York Catholics might remember that the Knights of Columbus served sunday dinner at there place on S George street above the Alcazar Ballroom. My father liked taking us there for sunday dinner because , A- it was less expensive than regular resturants and B- they had a bar that was open on Sundays. I used to enjoy the Reliance Cafe on W Market street, and as a teen, french fries with gravy at Babe Kellers on Market street was a regular after school snack. Had to sit in the back though. Teens were not allowed in the bar area.
Thanks John. I remember Mosers. My family didn’t eat their much–we lived south of Red Lion and didn’t get out West York way too often, but I do remember that groups from my church, way down at the Brogue, would go there for things like Christmas banquets. Maybe there wasn’t a lot of other restaurants that had banquet facilities, or maybe it was just the good, reasonably priced food.
I must admit I never had french fries with gravy–where was Babe Kellers?
great photos of the diner. The diner was built by the Ward & Dickinson Dining Car Company of Silver Creek, NY. David+Donald Sternbergh are listed as the owners. I think someone told me that by the 2nd time the diner was to move, that the diner was demolished instead, and a new restaurant was built.
There were similar diners like this in Reading, known as Moore’s Diners.
Thanks Michael–I wondered what had eventually happened to it. Do you know where it was to be moved to? Was the new restaurant also called the York Diner?