While nursing his physical ills and wondering how he was going to earn a living, he met the owner of a diner in Trenton, New Jersey.
Lacking anything better to do, he began helping the counter whenever he could. That did it. A quick trip back to his home town of Montgomery, Alabama, proved two things. Montgomery did not have a modern diner, and Montgomery businessman was willing to lend Danny a hand financially.
Back North, Danny ordered a diner. While it was taking shape in a New Jersey factory- a process that usually takes about four months- he went about getting experience by taking odd jobs in various diners in the vicinity. When off duty, he hung around the factory and watched a diner grow from plans on a drawing board to completion.
“Danny’s Diner” packed them in at the corner of Bainbridge and Madison Avenues in downtown Montgomery. Among other things, it had the distinction of being the first modern restaurant-type diner to begin operations in Alabama.
I went to work early at Weather Office at Dannelly Field and would drop by Danny's for coffee and baseball talk he toldme he had "a cup of coffee in pro baseball". At that time in 1959, he worked at night and was always there. Good memories.
ReplyDeleteI worked at Danny's Dinner in June 1955, long enough to pay for blood test to marry my husband of whom I have been married to for 63 years.
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DeleteThis was my favorite place when I was a child. My dad got a job at Gunter AFB and we moved to Montgomery in 1957.
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