Ron May's "creamery" in the mid-west may be the same as a "dairy lunch",
which seems to have been a term for early diners in the mid-Atlantic.  We
came across ceramic for a Baltimore "Dairy Lunch" in monitoring work on
early 2oth century ceramic waster dumps here in Trenton, NJ.

Anyone else come across this phrase?  I'm sure Ned Heite must know
something!

Ian Burrow

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> In this part of the world (Middle Atlantic/Northeast), "creamery" had a
> very different meaning. They appeared beginning in the mid-nineteenth
> century, when many farmers in the region began to focus on dairying, and
> were essentially facilities for butter production.
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> Ed Jelks' mention of diners reminds me of "creamerys," which preceded ice
> cream parlors and soda stands according to a friend from the Midwest. I am
> wondering if this was a function of a dairy out facility or something
else.
> His anecdote of the Smithsonian further reminds me of a museum in Willets,
> California that removed the entire interior of a creamery and instlled it
> in the museum. All the original artifacts are there and in place.
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