Flat Top at the Lemon Drop

Flat top at the Lemon Drop
Originally uploaded by JaySeaAre.

I snapped this pic while at The Lemon Drop diner in Anderson, Indiana with my friend John Mallett.

Bill Pitts, the owner of the diner since 1972 was a friend of my father's. Bill (in the white shirt) is constantly in motion alternating between the grill, the storeroom phone and the cash register.

When dad and I would go out to eat, just the two of us, this is the place we'd go.

The joint was unchanged; which was comforting to me. Even the water spigot that was leaking the last time I was here with dad was still running freely.