29 Diner

29 Diner is a restaurant located in the City of Fairfax, near the intersection of Route 29 (Lee Highway) and Virginia State Route 123.

History
The 29 Diner opened on July 20, 1947. It was built by the Mountain View Diner Company of Singac, New Jersey. D.T. "Bill" Glascock purchased the diner and had it shipped to a strip of land that he owned in Fairfax, Virginia. Glascock and his wife, Elvira "Curly," ran the diner for the first several years, and thereafter leased the building to a succession of business owners.

In 1973, the Tastee Diner company bought the location and it became the ''Tastee 29 Diner."

In 1992, the diner was declared to be a historic site. Marc Christian Wagner, an architectural historian from the Charlottesville-based Preservation Associates of Virginia organization wrote the statement of significance. The opening of the statement declares:



Thus, in 1992 the Tastee 29 Diner was added to the list of National Register of Historic Places.

In the late-1990s, Fredy and Ginger Guevara (Ginger being a former waitress of the 29 Diner in the mid-1960s) bought the location and restored its original name of 29 Diner.

For years the diner was open twenty four hours a day, seven days a week, with the exception being Christmas Day.

Culture
Robert Lederer has made an annual tradition of dining at the 29 Diner on Thanksgiving, during his time as Mayor of Fairfax.

John Walsh of host of America's Most Wanted made a visit to the diner in 1999 with two bodyguards.

Bill Griffith featured 29 Diner in the July 23, 2003, and April 21, 2012, installments of Zippy the Pinhead.

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