![]() According to the Aradia’s Best website, a location manager for the series was scouting the city’s Chamber of Commerce for an upcoming episode and wandered inside to ask if any other nearby locales had a 1960s look. In the Season 5 episode of Mad Men titled “Far Away Places”, the interior of Rod’s Diner stood in for the restaurant section of a supposed Plattsburg, New York-area Howard Johnson’s motor lodge. More than the food, though, the retro, untouched-since-the-‘50s (in a good way) ambiance is what makes Rod’s Grill so special and what keeps film crews coming back to shoot on the premises year after year. I am very happy to report that the sausage was PHENOMENAL and the GC and I wound up taking his father there the next weekend for breakfast, and then his father ended up returning for a bite the following morning, as well. Most places typically only serve links and, being a patties girl, myself, I usually get the shaft. The GC and I ended up absolutely loving Rod’s Grill! We went to the eatery for breakfast and I was floored to see that both sausage links and sausage patties were offered on the menu. Thankfully though, concerned citizens stepped in and saved Rod’s from the wrecking ball and the place is still going strong to this day. ![]() Um, I’m pretty sure that’s not what our forefathers had in mind when they created the Fifth Amendment. ![]() In a mind-boggling move, the government of Arcadia, claiming eminent domain, came thisclose to purchasing the site and turning it over it to the Rusnak dealership, which at the time, according to the Castle Coalition website, brought in ten percent of the city’s tax revenue. Amazingly, the decades-old diner was almost torn down to make way for the expansion of a Mercedes Benz dealership in 2006. The current owner, Manny Romero, purchased the already-established eatery in 1996. Rod’s Grill, which was originally established in 1946, is fittingly situated right along the historic Route 66. So I immediately added the restaurant to my To-Stalk list and dragged the Grim Cheaper right on out there just a few days later. Well, believe you me, I absolutely freaked out upon learning this information because I had never before even heard of the place. While I was in their shop recently, Sabin happened to ask if I had ever stalked Rod’s Grill in Arcadia as a Season 5 episode of Mad Men had been shot on the premises. Well, as luck would have it, since that time I have been lucky enough to meet Sabin Gray and Bryan Gerber, the owners of the property who also run a really fun store in Pasadena called Friends of Dorothy. During last year’s Haunted Hollywood postings, I blogged about the Mills View House in Monrovia, which was featured in both the Season 1 Halloween-themed episode of Picket Fences titled “Remembering Rosemary” and the 1986 horror flick House.
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