Village Diner Red Hook NY – First NY Diner on Historic Register

Red Hook, NY

    • Larry Cultrera
      May 27, 2010 at 12:50 pm

      Beth, this is a 1951 vintage Silk City diner, Don’t always believe what these diner owners write as far as history. They are not always correct.

      • Mod Betty / Retro Roadmap
        May 27, 2010 at 1:44 pm

        Larry, I know I can trust you to give me the correct skinny on these things! I had no idea that those “Historic” signs can also be bought by regular folks. I was going to update the comments here to reflect that info from the FB page, and who knows I may see how much it costs to get a historic marker put outside the Hacienda 🙂

        Have a great Mem Day Weekend!

    • Glenn Wells
      June 2, 2010 at 5:53 am

      Here’s some information on New York historical markers:

      The original markers were placed by the state Education Department between 1926 and 1966. The original ones were made by the Walton Foundry of cast iron (which of course has a tendency to rust.) The original markers are essentially in the public domain and are maintained by property owners or local groups.

      New markers can be bought from Catskill Castings, and are now cast aluminum (no rust!) The price for a “standard” marker is $895.

      http://www.catskillcastings.com/preview.htm

      • Mod Betty / Retro Roadmap
        June 2, 2010 at 6:32 am

        Glen- thanks for the additional info, I had no idea that was a non-official sign in front of the diner. If anything I thought it was way cool that NYS had recognized it.

        Well at least we all know where we can get an official looking cast aluminum sign for outside of our house 🙂

        • Haley
          December 4, 2010 at 6:39 pm

          It is an official NYS sign. NYS documented everything and did the research so it could be nominated for the register of historic places and the federal register of historic places. The owners also have the congratulations from the then governor Cuomo…. The diner has been on that location since 1950, therefore it could not of been manufactured in 1951.

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