Comments on: Paterson’s Awesome History https://mrlocalhistory.org/patersons-awesome-history/ History and Gossip from New Jersey Fri, 03 Oct 2025 12:32:46 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 By: Bill Scheller https://mrlocalhistory.org/patersons-awesome-history/#comment-177253 Fri, 02 Feb 2024 15:08:58 +0000 https://www.mrlocalhistory.org/?p=42043#comment-177253 Silk City DIner operated out of a plant on East 27th Street as late as the early 1960s. I remember seeing new diners being wheeled out of the plant, like ships being launched. My grandfather, John Marchitti, owned a Silk City diner, the Highway on Rte. 4 in Fair Lawn.

Several years ago, I had an interesting conversation with a man here in Vermont — owner of a woodenware and kitchen supply company, J.K. Adams — who was a member of the family that owned Silk City. He told me about the company’s origins as a builder of horse-drawn wagons, and its evolution into the Paterson Vehicle Company. There are a number of them still around — the Birdseye Diner in Castleton, Vermont is one, as is another VT diner, the Country Girl (#48211/1948) in Chester.VT.

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