| City | State | Address | info | picture | extra images | owners | employees | research notes | to do |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hamburg | NY | Main St. | none | none | yes  |
yes Harrington & Phillips |
none | yes This diner came into town in 1921, but in 1940, the article said it came into town 15 years ago. This could be a memory issue or it could have been a 2nd Richardson built diner, as the photo definitely shows a Richardson. |
none |
| Greenville | PA | 7 South Mercer | yes address change during time in town. Address was first given as 214 Main until 1929. Replaced by on-site in 1959 |
none | none | yes 1923-1946 William H Martin + Dayton A Greenfield ; -1950 Dayton A Greenfield ; 1950-1955 G G & Wm S Johnson ; 1956-1957 Edward J Zeitler ; 1959 David P & Donna M Sankey |
none | none | none |
| North Tonawanda | NY | 27 Webster | yes Replaced by a National (Sharpe) Dining Car in May of 1927. No clue what happened to Richardson diner. Being that it was only 4 or so years, it may have been used by someone else. |
none | none | yes 1927 - 1927 Henry O Smith |
none | none | none |
| Painesville | OH | none | none | none | yes George Dietzen |
none | none | none | |
| Ashtabula | OH | 277 Main | yes Can not guarantee address is the same Richardson diner. But there were no other diners in town at the time and the Silver Creek owners never appear in the city directories. |
none | none | yes Chas. Haviland, Herman Jackle, then probably Louise & Charles Phillips |
none | none | none |
| Wesleyville | PA | 3341 Buffalo Road | none | none | none | yes 1924 Mr. & Mrs. Arthur Carr and Mr. & Mrs. Roy Payne ; 1925-1927 Walter H & Sibyl Wasmund ; 1928 Earl E Vender ; 1933-1939 Michael Frank + Thomas O'Donnell ; 1941-1942 Paul F. Sperry ; 1943-1944 William D Parker |
none | none | none |
| Falconer | NY | 14 East Main | none | none | none | yes Jan 1924 - 1926 Howard Chapman + Charles Hoeffner ; 1926 Walter Carr ; 1928 William O Eldridge + Lorenzo W Carr ; 1930-1932 Earl K. States |
none | none | none |
| Galion | OH | 313 E Harding Way | none | none | none | yes Nov 1924 - 1932 Ed Root with Neil Paul as part owner. ; 1935-1938 Howard G. Whitesell at new address, see above |
none | none | none |
| Bellevue | OH | Monroe St. | none | none | none | yes Sept 1924 - 1930ish Neil Paul ; |
none | none | none |
| Ravenna | OH | 229 West Main | none | yes  |
none | yes Nov 1924 - Dec 1926 Howard Clute ; 1932-1939 - William J. Schaer ; 1942 Leo Joseph ; 1946 Paul R. Few ; 1948+ Paul Stukovskoy Jr. |
none | none | none |
| Warsaw | NY | 27 South Main | none | yes  |
none | yes May 1924 - July 1927 H.H. Huer (also Bock at start) ; July 1927 - Oct 22, 1931 Mr & Mrs Harry Gless of Jamestown and Mrs Elizabeth Farley of LeRoy (BlueBird Diner) ; Oct 22, 1931- Jess Ballard (Minute Man Diner) Sept 1933 - "Bosh" Jones and Mrs Farley ; |
none | none | none |
| Erie | PA | 712 Peach St. | yes replaced by a Ward & Dickinson Oct 1929, which was replaced by a Silk City in 1948 |
none | none | yes 1924-1925 Chas Tiedeman + Clayton Haggerty ; 1926-1929 Jessie & John J. Schoos |
none | none | none |
| Erie | PA | unknown | yes Can not find address. owner Anthony Siefert is listed in Silver Creek newspaper and in prothonotary's conditional sales dockets, all without address given. Never shows up in city directories as owner. |
none | none | none | none | none | none |
| Fredonia | NY | 41 Main St | yes fire around May 1927, diner replaced by Ward & Dickinson that moved to Kimball Stand around 1951 |
none | none | yes Harry Hotchkiss |
none | none | none |
| Bolivar | NY | none | yes  |
none | yes Wellsville Hawkins & Trask ; Bolivar Chas. Haviland then to Phillips & Walker |
none | none | none | |
| Bryan | OH | 115 N Main | none | yes  |
yes  |
yes Sept 1924 - April 1926 Clem Yonk ; Charles O Johnson ; George Allison ; Lowe Brothers, Charles and Hazel Stevens ; Carmen Whitney ; William H (Herb) Saltzman |
none | none | none |
| Franklin | PA | 211 13th St. | none | none | none | yes April 1925 - Joseph Muscato ; August William Martin ; late 1926 - 1943 William Smith ; 1946 Edwin A Anderson |
none | none | none |
| Conneaut | OH | 244 State | yes Sheldon moved to Maple Heights, Ohio after this diner. Silver Creek newspaper said he was starting a new diner, but there is always the possibility that he moved this diner, as this one disappeared from Conneaut, and the Maple Heights diner did not last long. |
yes  |
none | yes April 1924 - 1935 Sheldon Neebuhr |
none | none | none |
| Penn Yan | NY | 131 East Elm St | yes March 15, 1932, a fire in the kitchen of the diner caused a throsand dollars worth of damage, charring provisions and kitchen utensils. Odell sold the diner in 1949, but the owners could not make a go of it, so he took it back. Possibly car accident. |
yes  |
yes  |
yes April 1925 - Byron Legters ; Carroll Bond ; 1933 - Mrs. Richardson and son Douglas King ; 1938-1955 Odell Jones ; 1955 - John and Inez Quenan ; 1980 - Lyman Beecher ; Dean Smith ; March 2012 - Carrie and Sean Ahearn |
none | none | none |
| Newark | NY | yes George Dickinson ran a diner in Brocton, NY before this one. |
none | none | yes April 1925 - George Dickinson ; Oct 1926 - Walter Dennis ; Ben Woods ; -1934 Ed Smith; Dec 1934 - Dec 1967 Ellsworth Burns ; Dec 1967 - Peter Angelo |
none | none | none | |
| Buffalo | NY | yes can not figure out which diner in Buffalo Schultz owned. |
none | none | none | none | none | none | |
| Warren | PA | none | none | none | yes April 3, 1925: Mr & Mrs Ed Comerford bought lunch car from Ted Graf at Warren, took possession April 1. |
none | none | none | |
| Corry | PA | Main St. | yes postcard of dining car exists. There was also a Mulholland in the city, so this could make it confusing. |
yes  |
none | yes George Smith 1925 |
none | none | none |
| Springville | NY | Buffalo St | yes 5/29/1923 - Buffalo paper - Paul G. Fitzpatrick new lunch car on Buffalo St ; Jan 1929 - Warsaw paper - Mr & Mrs Charles Batzold have lc in Springville ; Sept 1934 - Arcade paper - Mabel M Frost moved to Springville where she is operating lc on Buffalo St. ; |
none | none | none | none | none | none |
| Kenmore | NY | 2983 Delaware | none | none | none | yes Mrs. Frank Kahabka & Anderson May 1925 Wilbur E. Blanding March 1927 - 1930 Kenmore Home Lunch - William Buchner & Claude Gleason - 1931 - 1932 Blanding's Dining Car - Wilbur E. Blanding - 1933 - 1937 William F. Rees 1938 - 1948 Village Diner - Elsie & Benjamin E. Feirich - 1950 - 1958 Village Diner - Jean & George B. Edwards - 1959 - 1961 Village Diner - John W. Morphis - 1962 - 1963 Whitney's Village Diner - George E. Whitney - 1965 - 1966+ |
none | none | none |
| Dansville | NY | none | none | yes  |
yes Lynn Wheeler & Odell Jones(3/10/1927) Oct 1925 - ; Fern Fullingham 7/19/1927 - ; Clifford & Charles Perry 4/22/1948 - |
yes Elmer Donaldson manager 1925-1942 |
none | none | |
| Wyandotte | MI | none | none | yes  |
yes Don Weed (Raymond Richardson silent partner) 1926-1941 |
none | none | none | |
| Westfield | NY | none | yes  |
none | yes Nov 1925 - Bruce Merry, Clark Guest ; April 1926 - Wallace Stafford, declared bankruptcy around 1933-4 |
none | none | none | |
| Brocton | NY | none | none | none | yes June 1923 - George Dickinson ; Dec 1924 - Clyde, Elliot & Howard Manning ; Dec 1925 - Mrs. Fred Guenther ; Blanche Keegan (Blue Star Diner, with Roy Nelson in 1930s) |
yes Miss Alice Dickinson 1925 |
none | none | |
| Dansville | NY | 114 Main St | yes Part of this diner still exists, the ceiling exists in the Java Cafe. |
none | yes  |
yes Aug 1927 - Arthur Nelson ; Oct 1928 - 1950(retired 1947, came back Jan 1948) Michael Heiman ; |
yes during Arthur Nelson's time, car was operated first by Mr and Mrs Lawrence Gurney and then by Mrs Orlo Johnson ; 6/10/1947 George Ruesga of Albany, leased Mike's Diner, assisted by Manuel Santiago and Mrs Jack Campo. Eddie Mack continues to work there.; Oct 1947 Mr & Mrs Roy Clark ; 1950 Mike's Diner now under mgt of Phil Green and N Jussaume |
none | none |
| Silver Creek | NY | yes This was Richardson's demonstration model. Could have been the third diner. Probably built in early 1925, Earl could have built his 2nd in 1922 and then had another he originally brought to town. |
yes  |
none | yes Earl Richardson ; Oct 1926 - Clement Yonk ; (maybe as early as 1927) - 1933 Harrington Bros ; May 1933 - E.E. Centner(and wife/former Miss Florence Clute) ; July 30, 1948-Sept 1951 Sorge |
yes Ebling sisters. They later went out on their own. |
none | none | |
| Girard | OH | yes 1924 blurb mentions Richardson sending diner to Gerrard. Only photo shows a remodeled non-descript 7-2 diner. 99.5% sure this is a Richardson. |
none | none | none | none | none | none |
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