H. Robins Hollyday photographed those who worked at Riley’s BB Diner on E. Dover St., including the owner J. Carson Riley (on the far left) and the chef, unknown, (third from the right). According to the Easton Album by Norman Harrington (1986), ” The B-B Diner on East Dover Street at the triangle near the Pennsylvania railroad station was a 24-hour restaurant that vied with the Oak Hill Diner on N. Washington Street for popularity. Both had facilities for jukebox dancing, and during the 1920’s, the B-B Diner had live music each summer in the ‘garden’ behind its parking lot.” Do you recognize anyone? Do you remember this diner? Let us know!
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Mark Laurent Pellerin says
I’m mixed-up with this. We used to go the Oak hill diner on E. Dover and the site was about opposite where Domino’s Pizza is now. We went there for liver and onions ! A brick building occupies the site now, too. There may have been a drive-through window but I never used it. Parking and diner traffic encircled the structure. I never knew a diner like the one pictured and labeled as the “B B” but I am a “come here” arriving 1971.