Reprint from the Crawford Auto-Aviation Museum's "Traffic Report"
January-March 2001  A Property of The Western Reserve Historical Society 

Stop and Have a Cup Of Coffee at the Assembly Line Diner

ChristopherJ. Dawson, Curator of Urban and Industrial History

   The new Crawford Museum of Transportation and Industry will not only have our cars and planes on display, 		at his uncle's diner on Payne Avenue. King cooked, performed maintenance on the diner, and worked his way up to manager, then partner in the American Diner Company. in the company. Mr. Maruschat made the 71st and Euclid diner his headquarters for the chain, and the diner became known as Walter's Diner. In 1956, Mr. Carpenter, a regular customer, purchased the diner. The diner was then renamed Carpenter's Dinet, until 1958, when it was sold to Julius Schwagus, who moved it to Munster, Pennsylvania.
In 1994 the diner returned to Cleveland. It is currently under restoration by Steve Harwin, a diner restorationist, who purchased the diner and has a national reputation for the quality of his restorations. Once completed, the diner, renamed the Assembly Line Diner, will be moved into the new Crawford exhibit of the same name, which focuses on the automobile industry in Cleveland. Once again, Clevelanders will be able to walk through the diner's door, and sit down behind the counter for a cup of coffee and some delicious pie!

but will also show off other transportation-related artifacts that we are acquiring. One of the most notable acquisitions is a 1937 porcelain-enamel diner. Originally known as the American Diner, it was constructed by the Jerry O'Mahony Company of New Jersey, and was located at East 71st Street and Euclid Avenue from 1942 to 1958. This authentic diner has quite a history.
     The American Diner Company 
was a local chain that operated from
1929 to 1954. The company began with four diners, and added two more in the next few years. Famed Cleveland res- tauranteur Kenny King joined the company in the early days, after working     In the late 1940s, King branched out starting his own restaurant chain. The owner of the American Diner Company then sold the entire chain to Walter Maruschat, one of the diner managers

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