DinerScape 2: The Quarrier Alone
Let's get those people out of the way for a clearer look. If the universe were just and true, the Quarrier Diner would be a booming lunch and dinner spot, where you could be served grilled asiago cheese sandwiches with asparagus on French bread with a nice Louis Martini cabernet sauvigon. Alas, the universe seems ruled by selfbombers, Wal-Mart and Simon Cowell. (At least you can get the Louis Martini at Soho's at Capitol Market, where they pour a generous cup o'wine).
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Enjoy it while it's here - I heard they'll be tearing it down when they build the new library.
Oh, and the Ott building too.
A shame. A sensible city would never demolish an Art Deco jewel like the Quarrier.
I know. I love that building. Nice photos.
Thank you. And you have very nice red hair, speaking of photos. I'm told by one fellow shooter I should do more Charleston alleys and off-the-beaten track places. So into the netherworld I go.
Way back in the dark ages, you could get a "grilled" sweet roll at the Quarrier Diner. I ate them every day when I was in the Chas. School of Cytotechnology in the building across the street. PPlease don't let them demolish it!
Yes, I think it is time for a "Save the Quarrier Diner" movement. Instead of mournful elegies to theplace once a bulldozer flattens it like a broken china teacup.
A School of Cytotechnology? Isn't that what Tom Cruise belongs to?:-)
When I was a kid the family used to go to the Quarrier Diner after Sunday Mass and, like kenju, eat some of its world famous "grilled" sweet rolls. Those were also the days when the QD was a "Whites Only" restaurant, the Worthy Hotel right next door had not yet been deemed unworthy, and the "Fireproof" Holley Hotel was still semi-elegant and didn't house an X-rated movie theater.
Trivia question. How many remember the Gazette's "Virgin For Rent" picture of Frankie Veltri leaning out of the second floor window of the Virginian Theater, hoping against hope that it wouldn't be demolished? Whoever cropped the picture had a wicked sense of humor! That it was even published is even harder to believe, but it no doubt remains in the Gazette Archives.
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