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Small lunch car run by Otto Kiefer was located on the Park Square in Avon, NY, perhaps as early as 1926. Born in Cohocton and raised in Wayland, Kiefer moved to Silver Creek, NY as the manager of an electric company.
It was here that he probably learned about the Ward & Dickinson Co., which manufactured more than 300 dining cars between 1921 and 1949. Kiefer bought Car #41 in 1926 for a cost of $5,850 (about $80,000 in 2016) and offered an all-night menu, presumably for working residents and passengers traveling through on the Erie Railway.
After Kiefer's sudden death in 1941 the business passed through a series of owners until it was moved to 25 Borden Ave. in Perry in 1946. The diner finally was dismantled in 1957. After Kiefer's death in 1940 it passed through a number of owners before being moved to Perry in 1946. It was disassembled in 1957.
Sources Consulted
-- "Sunday Menu at Kief's Dining Car," Avon News 3 Sept. 1926: 2.
-- NYDiners.com
It was here that he probably learned about the Ward & Dickinson Co., which manufactured more than 300 dining cars between 1921 and 1949. Kiefer bought Car #41 in 1926 for a cost of $5,850 (about $80,000 in 2016) and offered an all-night menu, presumably for working residents and passengers traveling through on the Erie Railway.
After Kiefer's sudden death in 1941 the business passed through a series of owners until it was moved to 25 Borden Ave. in Perry in 1946. The diner finally was dismantled in 1957. After Kiefer's death in 1940 it passed through a number of owners before being moved to Perry in 1946. It was disassembled in 1957.
Sources Consulted
-- "Sunday Menu at Kief's Dining Car," Avon News 3 Sept. 1926: 2.
-- NYDiners.com
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Avon Historical Society
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