2. The tile-floored
diner, as originally built, covered 5-6,000 square feet including kitchen.
It had a long marble counter that seated 20. Seating at along-the-wall booths
and center tables accommodated 80 -100 persons. Within several years after
the opening, a dining room of approximately 1,800 square feet was added
to the rear of the diner which increased the seating capacity to about 200.
When I spoke to Harold Kullman, son of the company founder and current president of Kullman Industries, he told me the Weequahic Diner was the forerunner of many diners that would follow and even today is being closely duplicated in a chain of Kullman diners being built for Germany which, aptly are being called "Sam Kullman's American Diners."
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