For some reason, I remembered this old soda shop I used to go to way back when I was a college student in St. Catharines, Ontario and I suddenly missed the place so much. Diana Sweets was a true diner with soda fountains and real diner food. Not some rehashed retro-styled restaurant. This was the real deal, built a hundred years ago, the engravings on the walls of the wooden booths are so old and so many that they overlap each other to the point that you can’t read them anymore. I had many fond memories here and really want to go back just to visit this place. Most of you have probably never heard of St. Catharines or will ever have a chance to go there, but if you do this soda shop is a place you have to visit. Oh, I wish I had taken a photo of the place..
St. Catharines is near Niagara Falls and was once in the Guiness Book of World Records as the Donut Capital of the World.
Diana Sweets is now up for sale! follow this link for pictures of the Soda Shop and info…
http://www.dinermuseum.org/dinersforsale/diner13/dinerforsale13.php
TTYL Roy ^_^
Great Find!! But it looks like the diner doesn’t exist anymore and they are selling the parts of the interior. That’s very sad..
i’m from st catharines and used to love going to diana’s with my dad for lunch on sundays. i’m sorry it’s gone
Help save our Diana Sweets! Visit my web page - we need your memories to prove to out local city hall that we want to move Diana Sweets back to our Museum! Time is of the essence! Click on the Diana Page and submit your story - we will be sending a copy of all these stories to city hall. It is the only way! Thanks!