The diner was created by merging the site’s former Roy Rogers restaurant with a circa-1952 Mountain View-model diner that had been trucked from Wilkes-Barre, where it was known as the Palooka Diner. A huge neon sign was installed on the roof. Three years later, the partners bought a 1948 PCC trolley car from SEPTA and opened it next door as an ice cream shop. The trolley, No. 2134, is said to be the last trolley car that ran to Willow Grove Park in the early 1960s.