Road Island Diner

Utah, United States

Exterior only

Visible from the street; the inside is private.

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The Oakley Diner, formerly known as the Road Island Diner, is a prefabricated Streamline Moderne diner car constructed in 1939 by the Jerry O'Mahony Diner Company in Elizabeth, New Jersey. Measuring 60 feet by 16 feet, this steel-frame Art Deco structure was exhibited at the 1939 New York World's Fair before being transported across the country. It operated first in Fall River, Massachusetts, then for four generations as Tommy's Deluxe Diner in Middletown, Rhode Island, until its closure in 2006. Following its acquisition by Utah businessman Keith Walker in 2007, the diner was relocated to the remote mountain city of Oakley, Utah, where it underwent restoration and reopened in July 2008. Now listed on the National Register of Historic Places, it is considered the only remaining pre-war Art Deco streamline diner west of the Mississippi River, and one of only four such O'Mahony diners still in operation.