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I know, he wasn't on the eclipse trip! There's a reason this is a very abridged video with just one diner in it and no theme song or anything...I could never do a full-scale diner video without him!
Some raspberry facts in honor of the diner, while berry is in the name, raspberries are actually caneberries and are not true berries. Botanically speaking, berries are fruits that come from a single ovary. Raspberries are an aggregate, coming from a single flower with anywhere from 50 to 150 ovaries, each making a separate small drupelet. And here's a fun fact about Denny's, it's not named after a founder! In 1953, the Denny's lore: In 1953, Denny’s founders Harold Butler and Richard Jezak opened up a coffee-and-doughnut shop in Lakewood, California called Danny’s Donuts, and worked to open multiple locations over the next several years! The name “Danny,” meanwhile, held no real significance for either Butler or Jezak. They picked it simply because it was popular, and neither founder had any relatives or acquaintances in mind when they chose it. After Jezak left the business, this concept eventually became restaurants that sold burgers alongside coffee and breakfast, called Denny's Coffee Shops in 1959, then by 1961, dropped Coffee Shops!
I go to school in Clinton NY at Hamilton College just outside of Utica. Did you know that there actually used to be a tram that went all the way out to Clinton from Utica? Then the city kinda died and now it's gone, but there are days when I wished it was still around.
Raspberry's is actually in New Hartford, NY. That's the New Hartford Shopping Center across the road from you, where you saw Panera and what not. If you want to eat at an actual diner in Utica, there's one inside the Amtrak Train Station in Downtown Utica.
LEFTIES RISE UP! From what I found, the Boston Store you showed at 1:49 was a department store that first opened in 1918 as the Leader Store at Franklin Square, renamed the Boston Store, then they tore down the Arcade Building and built a larger 90,000 square feet store in the 1940s, expanded twice in the 1960s, then closed in December 1976 when its parent went bankrupt. In August 1984, the store was reopened as One-Thirty-One Boston Place, but by December, it was closed once more. Today, it's an independent living center. Love the architecture of that McDonald's in the intro, it's a cool modern version of a vintage McDonald's, and McDonald's got its logo from those giant golden arches of its old restaurants! One of my favorite McDonald's locations is one inside a 1860s Georgian-style mansion in New Hyde Park on Long Island! The house was first built in 1795 but when McDonald's wanted to demolish it and build a drive-thru, the locals fought back and sought historic designation, with McDonald's being allowed to have a drive-thru if they restored the building to its former glory! And Frederick Law Olmsted Jr (born on Staten Island) who designed that parkway in Utica had a lifetime commitment to national parks, and worked on projects in Acadia, the Everglades and Yosemite National Park! He was the one who filled in for his father Olmsted Sr. on the Park Improvement Commission for DC beginning in 1901, and by contributing to the famous McMillan Commission Plan for redesigning DC according to a revised version of the original L’Enfant plan, thus leading to the National Mall, Jefferson Memorial, White House grounds, and Rock Creek Park! As for his father, in the course of his career, Olmsted Sr. designed 100 public parks and recreation grounds, ranging from the iconic Central Park in Manhattan and Prospect Park in Brooklyn to Niagara Falls State Park (originally called the Niagara Reservation, the US's first state park), Branch Brook Park in Newark (the US's first county park), the Emerald Necklace in Boston, Jackson Park in Chicago, and the park systems of Louisville, Rochester and Buffalo!
Before that Olmy was a journalist. He toured the U.S. South for one thing, and had strong opinions of the various cities he visited, and on the society. I recall one city he did not like at all, and one he found decent, but I don’t remember which was which so (stops).
Ar 1:17 you pass by my barber! Its the shop in the train station - if you get a chance, it's a good place for a cut! Also, the restaurant in the train station has a great lunch. Haven't made it to dinner yet, but it looks excellent. (Also, Wakin' Bagel are great bagels)
Today's Soundbites: 0:01 5:45 Diner 2:10 9:20 Now it's time for a bathroom review (hm) 2:36 goofy ahh ringtone (not really a miles in transit soundbite) 4:24 Foamer Meter broken (is it a soundbite?) 4:54 5:37 Miles Mocks Announcements (kind of a soundbite?) 6:16 Now that is a fun fact 8:26 Menu Shot 14:14 outro music
When I visited the diner in the actual 70's, the decor was true 70's, globe lights, naugahyde, the decor you saw is retro look, but not original. They had to redo everything when smoking was banned. The one trye 50's diner is in Herkimer. Crazy Otto's, originally the Empire diner. The Boston Store was the original department store downtown, along with Woolworths and Neisners. Till the Riverside mall put them out of business.
My mother used to take my brother and I shooping at the Boston Store. It had an elevator with a human elevator operator. The only part of the store us kids found interesting was the "book nook" which was this little alcove elevated above the ground floor.
As mentioned in the Wikipedia page for Utica University, the State Board of Regents dropped the doctoral requirement for University status in NYS back in January of '22. This also let a bunch of SUNY colleges become SUNY universities, so this feels like a branding decision more than an educational one.
I went to Utica one summer a decade ago. Perhaps cuz was Sunday, but there were no cars, nor people. No business in downtown Utica was open. Around there outskirts there was activity at the strip malls. There was also this Bosnian Restaurant somewhere.
That video was PERFECT to put a VERY much needed smile on my face. But then again, Jeremy and that infectious smile/laugh ALWAYS puts a smile on my face! BTW, I must apologize to you and to Jackson whom I forgot to list when I recently said on another video that my favorites of your friends were Nathan, Sunny and Jeremy. I entirely forgot to put the musical genius Jackson on that list! Shame on me! I adore him and miss him dearly. Please give him my best and tell him he needs to be in more of your videos! And thanks again for being my absolute FAVORITE RU-vidr❣️
Utica has a fairly impressive bus station for a small town. The only problem is that the bus doesn’t run on Sundays. So if you don’t own a car then you’re screwed.
My favorite part of this is that the best diner in Utica is Craylees and its 3 blocks from the hub. Roosters and Golden's are just down Genesse street.
i grew up in upstate NY. Since youre already in Utica, head over to Herkimer, NY and check out Crazy Ottos Empire Diner. Its an original 1952 Mountainview diner with all the cool aesthetics from the 50s! And only about 30 minutes away!
Fun fact: that bit of street running you crossed on the bus is the former Delaware Lackawanna & Western's (later Erie-Lackawanna, then Conrail) Binghamton to Utica line, now operated by the Susquehanna. Today it's quite a sleepy line and the middle section is OOS (or was - NY DOT gave the Susy-Q a harsh rap in their knuckles for not running trains on a line they paid to be rehabed) but in the late 19th and early 20th century it was very busy, especially with anthracite moving north. If you want to have an idea of how what running trains over that line (and what it was to be a railroader) in that period was like, get a copy of Joseph Bromley's "Clear the Tracks! Story of an Old Time Locomotive Engineer" - a very enjoyable read.
When you passed the Friendly’s, I got a sudden intense craving for a Fishamajig. I don’t think I’ve had one since station wagons still came with the option for “wood” decals on the sides.
For what it's worth, a book I have called "Diners of New York" lists this diner as a 1978 Paramount! It was written by Michael Engle, who's also part of the Dinerville crew, so I'm not sure which source to trust!
I Enjoy You And Your Transit Nerds And Your Travels, Takes Me Back 50 Years And Me Hanging Out With My Nerds Friends, But We Were Checking On Our Horse And Buggies.
@08:21 leftys unite! i always need to outside seat at the diner. the bus route in utica where they famously dont have steamed hams reminded me of the nj transit routes in south jersey.
I like that you gave the diner a breakdown and score in the same fashion as the Philly and Boston diner videos. Made it feel like it slid right in with them. Also, again, probably oversharing here, but I also ended up diner-ing for breakfast on the morning of the eclipse. My friend and I ate at the Sherburne Diner in Sherburne, NY, and I almost took a page out of your book and got French toast, but ended up getting eggs and sausage instead. It was definitely a cozy little place to get breakfast in advance of a once-in-a-lifetime experience.
The TTC has Orion VIIs of the same age. They were the majority of the fleet at one point, in fact, but the builder plates were removed during refurbishment as with all other buses.
I moved to Utica from Scotland 3 years ago, had to use the bus system for the first year I was here. No. No it was bad. So bad for commuting to work. It aged me a fucking century.
Went to the Salem Oak Diner in Salem NJ and got french toast in honor of this series. Highly suggest, the food is great and it’s a Silk City diner with great historic integrity (although it is in the middle of nowhere so good luck finding public transit down there)
I never understood street stations, like I would have to wait for the crosswalk signal to cross the street to get the bus. But if the bus is late, I’d miss my connection, at least with a station platform , I could in theory run over a toddler safely on a bus platform to run to the next bus.
This was a nice nostalgic trip for me. I remember riding CENTRO back in by school days at SUNY Oswego and when working in Syracuse. The buses didn't look as nice back then. CENTRO was decent, but the king of deviations.
Controversial opinion from a european: US transit in the Northeast is not any worse than the average european medium size city, in fact the US does things like transit centers with waiting rooms and info booths, as well as cheap fares a lot better. A place like Utica doesn't need a light rail every 10 minutes.
Yeah I’m going to have to disagree with you on that solely because European cities are mostly much denser and more walkable. While yes, an average European city might have comparable transport, but at least you can walk more places. A lot of North American cities are spread out and not as dense.
But in Europe the bus usually runs more frequently than once an hour, or in Syracuse's case every 80 min on weekend. Plus Utica's bus system doesn't really cover much
The adventures of Miles in a city that is only 2 hours away from me is amazing. I've only been to Utica once in my life, to lead someone to the industrial side of town on the East Side so they could do a business presentation. Hope you had a great time in Upstate NY.
Next time you head South on the Northeast Corridor, take the MARC Camden line to Laurel, MD. There is a totally original railroad car-design diner across Rt. 1 from the MARC/B&O station that I swear hasn't changed in 60 years, except the at-table juke boxes are modern. I think it's called Tastee Diner or something like that. It's in the same price ballpark as the one in this video. If you go down the road South about 3/4 mi. you'll come to the Giant Foods shopping center parking lot where George Wallace was shot during the 1972 Presidential campaign.
@@MilesinTransit You should get Thom from Trains are Awesome to join you there, since he lives in the DC area. Bear in mind there is no weekend service on the Camden Line (CSX Capitol Subdivision).
From I learned while riding CENTRO is a) Their buses look really good, especially those Orion's, love those buses. Their announcements are great, better than the robotic ones around the country b) Their coverage is ok, they even have a couple of regional routes but their service is horrible. Especially on the weekend. Since everything has to get to/from the hub at the same time to transfer passengers, what end up happening is you have these routes that makes a deviation just to slow it down to make the pulse. That is why all the routes in Syracuse run on pitiful 80 minute headways on weekend with some exceptions c) Utica's headways are decent enough, however the service ends at 6pm... You don't see much of a pulse in Utica, but you definitely see it in Syracuse where you have 10 buses arriving/leaving at the same time, when the signal" is given by the dispatcher to leave. d) Their numbering system is usually, but not always, XX short turns 1XX 2nd shortest variation 2XX 3rd shortest 3XX 4th shortest, etc, etc, so in theory 111 will travel further out of town than the 11, but will share a common "trunk"
As a frequent rider of Centro... yeah the fare boxes just do that sometimes lol, as long as the pass isn't expired, the drivers will acknowledge it and let you on
At last, I believe you've come to a diner that tells me what type my childhood diner was! Raspberries here is almost identical inside. Thank you! (I would've just gone to check mine but it's been a CVS parking lot for a while now.)
Antarctica has excellent health care, other than the inability to evaluate personnel in the winter. As you would expect, since it is the wealthiest country in the world. I think their per capital GDP is something like half a million dollars a year.
I was last in Utica in 1984 but I never made it to that side of town. I stayed over near where the Denny's is now. The only thing they had over there then was an old school Pizza Hut.
I go to college in Syracuse and go through Utica alot (my bf lives like 20 minutes from Utica and takes Amtrak to Syracuse via Utica bunch). I think CENTRO in that area can be better since there is no public transit in the adjacent county where my bf goes to college. In Syracuse proper it seems pretty good, I’d prefer it to driving downtown Syracuse. Welcome to Upstate NY, I love what you do with transit!
That's raspberries, formerly known as the Hartford Queen. And it's in new hartford, not utica. However, this restaurant has a location that is in utica. Lmfao
@@MilesinTransit I'm glad to hear that Raspberry's is still around! I grew up in the area and have fond memories of getting brunch there on Sundays. By my recollection they served some fairly solid paninis around lunch hour.
It’s pretty cool that you came to Utica because that’s where I live.Also there used to be another raspberry’s location on genesee street but I don’t think it was a factory built diner ,but it was closed,put up for sale, and turned into a different restaurant before it was demolished,and turned into a Stewart’s gas station.
@@MilesinTransit come to raleigh, there's always more gilligs in store! a gillig for you! and a gillig for you! and a gillig for everyone! low floor delights for all!
Raspberries use to have a second location right along the railroad ROW, but it was turned into a gas station. Crazy seeing Utica covered on this channel, my office window overlooks the Centro Hub.
