Free 1950's Diner giveaway (you just have to move it) - General

[video=youtube;MFf_vH1vmRY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFf_vH1vmRY[/video] The owner does not wish to demolish the building and is giving away this 1950's diner for free to anyone who can and will remove it from the property.

Despite it being one of 5 that still exist and being historically significant, in it's current state why would any one even want to bother? it looks like the neighborhood and time has pretty much already demolished any value of the building and moving it would only devalue it even more. this just seems like someone trying to offload something that would cost them a significant amount of money to dispose of on to someone else and pretending they're giving away something that isn't just a bunch of trash.

Actually it's in fantastic condition for having sat as long as it has and very much restorable.

[QUOTE=Luc1f3r;43328006]words:words:[/QUOTE] Even though it'd be expensive to restore, nothing in this hinted at it being anywhere near a lost cause. There would be some degree of business based solely on the fact it's an original Diner, and if you make sure the food is good, maybe even unique, then it'll be double the business. [locals will start going there plus tourists] Hope someone picks this thing up before it's too late.

I have always loved the look of these and it's a shame that their era has come to an end. Here in Canada, Zellers(now Target...) used to have diners built into their stores that looked quite similar to the 1950's American ones but that's the closest I have ever come to seeing one in person.

That's piss easy to move. It's a prefab. It splits in two along the wall dividing the front and the bathrooms and the kitchen. Then you can load the halves on a truck and take them anywhere. The cost of moving it is somewhere between fifteen and thirty thousand dollars, depending on size and the work to lift it off the old foundation. Personally I'd take the front and pull any fixtures off the back because it might make more sense to rebuild that half.

What if Facepunch took it? We could have a diner. It'd be awesome.

[QUOTE=Dredonius;43332334]What if Facepunch took it? We could have a diner. It'd be awesome.[/QUOTE] I don't think I could survive so many fedora's at one place.

[QUOTE=Dredonius;43332334]What if Facepunch took it? We could have a diner. It'd be awesome.[/QUOTE] we'll put it on that island/that plot of land in scotland/next to that castle that we should have banded together and bought

[QUOTE=Incoming.;43328846]Even though it'd be expensive to restore, nothing in this hinted at it being anywhere near a lost cause. There would be some degree of business based solely on the fact it's an original Diner, and if you make sure the food is good, maybe even unique, then it'll be double the business. [locals will start going there plus tourists] Hope someone picks this thing up before it's too late.[/QUOTE] I agree it's not a lost cause but that being said the cost of moving and restoring it would be difficult to get a profitable return after it was all said and done, making it a tourist attraction really doesn't have any value either really since it wouldn't even be in it's original location. It'd be more cost effective just to build a replica elsewhere I would think. Theirs a lot of old things in this world worth restoring, an old run down cookie cutter diner just isn't one of them in my book.

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