Historic diner set to move.

From: Reading Eagle (Reading, PA) | Date: August 26, 2005 | Copyright information

Byline: Jason Brudereck

Aug. 26--Above the counter inside the old dining car are signs displaying prices from 70 years ago: two eggs any style, 20 cents; fried ham sandwich, 15 cents; tuna fish sandwich, 10 cents.

And it's not just the menu boards at the Reading Diner that seem as though they're Depression-era relics.

"When we stand inside the diner, we feel like we're in 1935, 1938, 1940," said James R. Swope, president of a Wyomissing nonprofit g...

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