Its first owners, Harold Curtis and his wife, purchased the diner to serve the community of Lawrence Park. The Lawrence Park Dinor was manufactured at the Silk City factory and transported to its present location in 1948. The vaulted ceiling is made up of curved, porcelain panels. The interior of the diner is laid out in a counter–aisle–booth seating configuration with 16 seats at the counter, 5 booths, and a free-standing table. The building's two entrances, one at the end of the diner and another at its middle, are both fronted by stainless steel doors, each with a large, oval window. A monitor roof runs the length of the diner, a feature that was common in diner design until the 1950s. Its exterior is a white, porcelain enamel with a fluted, stainless steel band "sandwiched by two narrow strips of blue". The restaurant building itself sits on a concrete block foundation, and is 40 feet (12 m) long and 14 feet (4 m) wide. The Lawrence Park Dinor was manufactured by Silk City Diners, a division of the Patterson Vehicle Company, in Paterson, New Jersey. A cottage erected at the same time as the diner sits at the rear of the lot, and served as the living quarters for the diner's original owners. Because of the property's narrow size, the diner is oriented perpendicular to the street. The Lawrence Park Dinor is located in Lawrence Park Township, outside of Erie, Pennsylvania, on Main Street in a 40-by-125-foot (12 m × 38 m) lot. The spelling "dinor" is unique to northwestern Pennsylvania, and its origin is largely unknown. The previous owner George Gourlias got the diner listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004. It was opened in 1948, and has operated since then. The Lawrence Park Dinor is a Silk City diner in Lawrence Park Township, Erie County in U.S.
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