One of the better-known streetcar diners, and one of only a handful included on the PNAERC list, has reappeared after about two years on the lam. Philadelphia 2134, the PCC car shown above, was for many years known as the Trolley Car Diner, an ice cream stand located on Germantown Avenue in Mount Airy. But the diner closed in October 2019, and on April 10, 2020, the car was loaded onto a truck and carted off to parts unknown.
It's now reappeared, still in its hometown, now located in the East Kensington section of north Philadelphia. The photo above, posted to Facebook (no login required), shows the car on display in what is evidently a small "wine garden" that is currently being built (conveniently enough, Google Street View passed this location in May 2022 and the car hadn't arrived yet, so we can confidently nail down its arrival date to sometime in the last 60 days or so).
So the car's owner has been updated to the Mural City Wine Garden. I listed its owner from 2020 to 2022 as "private owner," since it seems to have been sold back in 2019-2020 by the now-defunct Mount Airy diner but its current home didn't exist yet. It appears to still be on its trucks, though of course hollowed out inside. We'll see how it fares in its new location.
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