The Boyertown Museum of Historic Vehicles is pleased to announce the next Diner Day event, which is to be held on Saturday, April 11 from 10am to 1pm. Diner Day is one of the Museum’s most popular events. With the price of regular admission, guests will be able to sit inside the beautifully preserved Fegely’s Reading Diner and enjoy coffee and homemade pie. Coffee and pie are available for purchase at 1938 prices–that means a nickel for a cup of coffee and a quarter for a slice of pie. Hot chocolate, tea, and milk are available for younger patrons.
Fegely’s Reading Diner is a well-known and fondly remembered icon in Berks County. Built in 1938 by the Jerry O’Mahony Company of Elizabeth, New Jersey, the Reading Diner was a freestanding eating establishment along Route 422 in Exeter Township until 1950, when owner Howard Fegely moved it across the road and built his Fegely’s Family Restaurant around it. Essentially cocooned for the next 53 years, the Reading Diner weathered the years beautifully, despite being literally in the middle of a busy restaurant. Upon Fegely’s Family Restaurant closing in 2003, the Reading Diner was rescued by the Archbury Foundation. In 2008, the Archbury Foundation donated it to the Boyertown Museum of Historic Vehicles, where it serves as arguably the most popular exhibit in the gallery.
This will be the fourth Diner Day hosted by the Boyertown Museum, and it keeps growing in popularity. On Diner Day, visitors will also have the opportunity to spend time in the Museum gallery. Docents will be on hand to answer questions about the collection and give visitors further insight into the collection.
Visitors will also have a chance to see the newest addition to the collection-a beautiful 1913 SGV Touring Car built in Reading with coachwork done by Fleetwood Metal Body of Fleetwood, Pa.
