It was the breakfast food, the best diner food ever<\/p>\n
Home fries and eggs over and toast<\/p>\n
But let’s be clear<\/p>\n
It was the only place within thirty miles that served breakfast all night long to college kids and rail men in overalls and other\u00a0nocturnal dwellers<\/p>\n
it was the last gasp of the heavy railroad industry right there forty years beyond its glory days in the 1930’s in the basement of the\u00a0railroad station carved of great stone depression, decades of gruff shoes and soot had worn the ground floor\u00a0that opened onto\u00a0the tracks<\/p>\n
ambiance like that<\/p>\n
with a large waitress in house dress and apron,\u00a0a kindly mom-type who took no guff<\/p>\n
politeness was required or she’d roust ya<\/p>\n
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