29 Diner Fairfax Virginia
The Tastes 29 Diner is a uniquely American form of roadside
architecture. This, essentially two-cell, one-story, streamline
moderns building is located at 10536 Lee Highway (U.S. Routes 29/50)
near the intersection of Chain Bridge Road in the City of Fairfax.
The Tastes 29 Diner is architecturally significant as one of very
few diners left in the United States exhibiting exceptional
streamline Moderns design and construction characteristics. This
particular model would have appeared unique in its day and
especially unusual in the then rural back drop of the Virginia
countryside. Through the 1940a and 1950s, the Mountain View Diner
Company custom fit its diners to the level demanded by customers:
they manufactured high-quality diners that were "built to last a
lifetime." The Tastes 29 Diner is now surrounded by intense
commercial development.