The interior of the original section of the diner retains most of its original features such as the white Formica-paneled recessed ceiling with peach trim, peach patterned terrazzo floor, gray Formica counter, stools, tables, and lighting. With its classic-looking design and décor, the Miss America Diner has been the setting for several television commercials, including promotional campaigns for Cherry Seven-Up and Tums. One design trade of this time: the generous use of reflective surfaces" (Jersey Diners 25). In many respects, it meets Genovese's criteria for diners during their "golden age" in the 1940s: "Diners were long, low, 'fluid looking' structures with no hard edges, all corners were rounded. There’s no first runner-up either," writes Peter Genovese, author of works on roadside architecture (New Jersey Curiosities 32). The Miss America Diner is "the best diner in New Jersey. He moved his business to Elizabeth, NJ, and manufactured hundreds of diners there until 1956.
By the 1920s, O'Mahony and others added tables and booths to attract the fairer sex" (113-114). encouraged his buyers to leave the doors propped open to attract those who dreaded the male-dominated atmosphere. His production of former trolleys or electric streetcars into restaurants, Johnson remarks, began in a local garage: "O'Mahony kept the wheels on his diners so they could both avoid building codes and change locations. Johnson, "In 1913, Bayonne's Jerry O'Mahony noticed the resemblance between the local roadside lunch wagons and the railroad dining cars and coined the word diner" (113). The Miss America Diner is an example of the "Streamline" style of diner manufactured by Jerry O'Mahony during the 1940s. Formica paneling, counters and stools, booths with jukeboxes, and tables with napkin dispensers and ketchup became synonymous with the interiors of the diners. By the 1910s, lunch wagons evolved into popular stationary eateries that offered 24-hour service. Diners in the 1930s and 1940s had the art deco style with exterior construction of stainless steel, tile, and glass. In 1872, Walter Scott of Rhode Island began the phenomenon of the fast-food eateries with a lunch wagon for workers in Providence.
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1940) at 184 – 14th Street, near the Holland Tunnel, was used for the movie City Hall in 1976. The Newark Avenue Diner (a Sterling Diner), at 361 Newark Avenue, appeared in the movie Wise Guys and was called the "Turnpike Diner." The Tunnel Diner (a Paramount Diner, ca. New Jersey is known for over 600 diners, more than any other state, and Jersey City has had its share: The Miss America Diner, White Mana Diner, Al’s Diner, Colonette Diner, Flamingo Restaurant, and VIP Diner. 322 Westside Avenue at the corner of Culver Avenue
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