Red Wing Diner: Serving Route 1 Patrons for Over 80 Years
Owner Liam Murphy talks to Patch about his famous establishment on the Route 1 border of Walpole and Foxborough.
If you grew up in the Foxborough area chances are you've stopped in and had a bite at the Red Wing Diner on Route 1 in Walpole. Odds are your parents and grandparents did the same. That's because the Red Wing Diner has been serving its customers in the same spot at the Walpole/Foxborough border for over 80 years. “That’s something I love, especially at this time of the year between Thanksgiving and Christmas. People will come in with their sons and daughters and they’ll put them on one of the bar stools and they’ll say ‘This is where papa used to put me when we used to come.' and you hear that a lot,” said owner Liam Murphy. Opened in 1931 by Harvey Ernstrom, the original diner was a Worcester Lunch Car with nine seats at the counter and a…
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