Dinette Restaurant
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The Dinette Restaurant or Dinette Eat Shop was a full-service restaurant with two locations in Birmingham, both former White House Sandwich Shops, from the late 1940s to the early 1960s,
Restaurant No. 1 was in the former Woodlawn City Hall building at 5519 1st Avenue North in Woodlawn in the early 1960s. It was owned and managed by Renley McDaniel in 1950, and by Cicero Walrond afterward into the 1960s. In 1961 it stayed open from 5:00 AM to midnight on weeknights, to 1:00 AM on Friday nights and to 2:00 AM on Saturday nights. The Woodlawn restaurant distributed The Southern Wrestler, published by Walrond's wife, Constance.
Restaurant No. 2 was located at 1011–1015 20th Street South and was owned and managed by Tom Schrock.