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A diner is a small restaurant. Old-time diners were built in a factory and (36) transported to their place of business. Diners usually have an open kitchen and a long (37) counter. People can sit at the counter and watch the (38) cooks make their food. A diner can be a place for people in a (39) community to gather, drink coffee and talk. Or it can be a (40) welcome stop for travelers on the road.
    Around the late 1950s, there was a young man in Providence, Rhode Island, named Walter Scott. He discovered a way to make (41) extra money. He brought food to men who worked late at night in the city. Back then,restaurants closed by eight o’ clock. Hungry workers needed a place where they could buy (42) homemade food quickly and easily. In 1872, Walter Scott began to sell food out of a wagon (43) pulled by a horse. (44) He could move his business from place to place and sell more "night lunches". People in other cities improved on the idea. They bought their own wagons and called them lunch wagons. (45) In some places,lunch wagons were so popular that city leaders thought there were too many of them In the streets. Soon, the owners recognized that they could make more money by staying in one place and selling many different kinds of food. Diners survived the Great Depression of the 1930s. (46) Americans who did not have Jobs often ate at diners because the meals were low-priced. Diner owners were always searching for ways to make their businesses look more modern. By this time, thousands of diners were being built across America.