Mickey's Diner is a 50' x 10' classic Art Deco

Art Deco

Art deco , or deco, is an eclectic artistic and design style that began in Paris in the 1920s and flourished internationally throughout the 1930s, into the World War II era. The style influenced all areas of design, including architecture and interior design, industrial design, fashion and...

 diner

Diner

A diner, also spelled dinor in western Pennsylvania is a prefabricated restaurant building characteristic of North America, especially in the Midwest, in New York City, in Pennsylvania and in New Jersey, and in other areas of the Northeastern United States, although examples can be found throughout...

 car restaurant

Restaurant

A restaurant is an establishment which prepares and serves food and drink to customers in return for money. Meals are generally served and eaten on premises, but many restaurants also offer take-out and food delivery services...

 in Saint Paul, Minnesota

Minnesota

Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...

. It was prefabricated in New Jersey

New Jersey

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 by the Jerry O'Mahony Diner Company

Jerry O'Mahony Diner Company

The Jerry O'Mahony Diner Company of Elizabeth, New Jersey, whose motto was "In our line, We lead the world", was said to have produced 2,000 diners from 1917 to 1941, and became the largest manufacturer of its period. The roadside diners referred to are long, narrow, primarily metal buildings,...

 of Elizabeth, New Jersey

Elizabeth, New Jersey

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, in 1937 serial # 1067, shipped to Saint Paul by rail

Rail transport

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, and installed downtown just before World War II

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

. It looks much like it did then and is still open 24 hours a day (and according to its employees, non-stop since it started). It was added to the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

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 in 1983 as the only building of its kind in Minnesota

Minnesota

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. It is shown in several Hollywood movies

Film

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, including The Mighty Ducks, Jingle All the Way

Jingle All the Way

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, and A Prairie Home Companion

A Prairie Home Companion (film)

A Prairie Home Companion is a 2006 ensemble comedy elegy directed by Robert Altman, and was his final film, released just five months before his death...

, where it is featured prominently in the opening and closing scenes.

There is an additional location in the West 7th/Sibley neighborhood of Saint Paul that is decorated in the manner of a 1950s diner rather than the factory manufactured diners of the Great Depression and the Second World War. The West 7th/Sibley neighborhood location is under different management.

See also

For other historic diners in the same architectural style see:

• Miss Albany Diner
  Miss Albany Diner
  Miss Albany Diner is a historic diner in Albany, New York built in 1941 and located at 893 Broadway, one of the oldest streets in Albany. Used as a set for the 1987 film Ironweed starring Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep, it was added to the U.S...
  
   in Albany, New York
  Albany, New York
  Albany is the capital city of the U.S. state of New York, the seat of Albany County, and the central city of New York's Capital District. Roughly north of New York City, Albany sits on the west bank of the Hudson River, about south of its confluence with the Mohawk River...
  
  
• Road Island Diner
  Road Island Diner
  The Road Island Diner is a rare classic Streamline Moderne 60' x 16' Art Deco diner car restaurant located in the remote mountain city of Oakley, Utah in the United States. It was prefabricated as diner # 1107 in 1939 at the Elizabeth, New Jersey factory of the Jerry O'Mahony Diner Company.After...
  
   in Oakley, Utah
  Oakley, Utah
  Oakley is a city in Summit County, Utah, United States. It is part of the Salt Lake City, Utah Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 948 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Oakley is located at ....
  
   (previously sited in Middletown, Rhode Island
  Middletown, Rhode Island
  Middletown is a town in Newport County, Rhode Island, United States. The population was 16,150 at the 2010 census. It lies to the south of Portsmouth and to the north of Newport on Aquidneck Island, hence the name "Middletown."-Geography:...
  
   and transported to Utah in 2007)
• Village Diner
  Village Diner
  The Village Diner, sometimes called the Halfway Diner or the Historic Village Diner, is located at 39 North Broadway a block north of NY 199 in Red Hook, New York, United States...
  
   in Red Hook, New York
  Red Hook (village), New York
  Red Hook is a village in Dutchess County, New York, USA. The population was 1,961 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Poughkeepsie–Newburgh–Middletown, NY Metropolitan Statistical Area as well as the larger New York–Newark–Bridgeport, NY-NJ-CT-PA Combined Statistical Area...
  
  

Mickey's Diner has also been used in two of Alexander O'neals Videos.."Innocent", and "What's Missing Album Cover" as well as Pet Shop Boys

Pet Shop Boys

Pet Shop Boys are an English electronic dance music duo, consisting of Neil Tennant, who provides main vocals, keyboards and occasional guitar, and Chris Lowe on keyboards....

"Where The Streets Have No Name (I Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You)" video.

External links

• Mickey's Diner website
• Mickey's Diner at the National Register of Historic Places
• A Breakfast Review from Twincitiesbreakfast.com
• Scene from the 2008 Republican National Convention in St. Paul during the riots