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I know Paramus pretty well and I can't recall any truck stop on Rt 17 there. Anything else you can remember about it might help me figure out where/what the place was.
Rube’s?
Sorry, it was Mahwah. Dumpy place on the west side of 17, just before 287. I couldn’t even eat breakfast at the diner.
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The food @ the diner next to Rubes entrance had great food. The problem was to getting to the diner & back to your rig without getting shot or the girls asking if you wanted a date.
You are correct. The worst truck stop anywhere. von.
OK, Mahwah makes sense. It was Pal's Diner, currently reincarnated in Michigan.
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More so the Telstar Diner on Washington Ave in Carlstadt. Still standing but now as the Segovia Meson restaurant.
It was probably not far from Carretta’s Trucking shop and terminal ,There was a few choke and pukes around there.
You are correct.I ate there only once
.Not far from the old sufferen doubles compound.They had plenty of pay phones.
Help my brakes are on fire.
I have had many perilous journeys up and down route 17 from jersey to Jamestown.17 is Now a cake walk through New York.
I don’t know what makes them punch out sick quicker, getting the keys to a truck with a splitter or a sort and seg delivery.
My Dad owned a 1955 B42. Only a Duplex tho...
If I remember correctly Hemingway had a small terminal before Carretta at that location.
Only time I was on 17 was in 79. Had a high 5th wheel and a van. Must've been 13'8" or so. Was following 3 Freight guys on a limited-access highway. Hadn't slept in days and missed the sign for trucks over 13' to exit. Watched the first two Freighters go under the underpass. As the third started under I saw the sign on his 12'6" trailer, and the sign on the 13' bridge. Locked up my brakes just in time! Backed up a mile or two to the exit! Or at least it seemed that far....
Once more testing my memory, I remember a small diner on northbound Rt 17 in Ramsey just before Spring Street about where a Wendy's is now located. This was back in the 1960's.
Also, Paramus once had three diners on Rt 17 back in the day. On the northbound side, Suburban Diner (still there), another one (Twin Oaks I think) just before Midland Ave, and on the southbound side, Paramus Diner which eventually became a Pizza Hut.
Also, Paramus once had three diners on Rt 17 back in the day. On the northbound side, Suburban Diner (still there), another one (Twin Oaks I think) just before Midland Ave, and on the southbound side, Paramus Diner which eventually became a Pizza Hut.
Not sure where you were Jimmy, but there was an underpass on 17 that went under RR tracks at Harriman, NY that had a low clearance. That was around where 17 went from compass east/west to compass north/south about 15 miles from the NJ line.
theres a bus company there now
Hemingway, A whale of a truck line.One year before they went out of business in 1981 they made the largest single bulk equipment purchase of any truck line to date .
That overpass is 13’11” now.They dug that out decades ago I think it was around 13 or 13 5 I don’t have a memory like a dinosaur ,like Triplex does .But I have been under there a few times,With a rag top and a van.