A New York Diner in Wyoming
I was browsing the web site of the American Diner Museum and I saw links to several items about the Moondance Diner. In 2007, the diner was moved from its longtime home at the corner of 6th Avenue and Grand Street, New York to the little town of La Barge Wyoming.
I never visited the diner when it was on 6th Avenue, but I walked by many times.
It looks like they’re still working on renovating it, but you can follow the progress via the owners’ blog.
The Casper Star Tribune put together a video about the relocation and about the new owners. In the video, one of the owners’ mentioned hearing about other East Coast diners being moved out West, as the diners get displaced from their original locations by new development.
Relocation is an interesting subcategory of historic preservation. It’s great in that it preserves historic structures (that would be lost otherwise), but then again (obviously) it removes the structure from its original context and constituency.
