Valentine Diners - Northeast Kansas

Enterprise

• Business name: Unknown
• Street address: 100 block of West Main Street
• Open or closed: Closed
• History: This is a unique situation where two Valentine diners, not quite identical models, sit side-by-side and are joined in back by an addition. An online history of Enterprise indicates that several years after a hardware store was razed, ". . . John Poister, Sr., replaced it with two prefabricated metal buildings. The buildings were converted into a diner. Meals were served and coffee drinkers catered to." The last use of the buildings was as a workshop for Poister.
• Model / serial number: Aristocrat / Unknown

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What are Valentine Diners?

These small diners were built in Wichita for several decades from the late 1930s into the 1970s. Some are still open today. more