Wednesday, September 03, 2008

The Wheel Inn Diner- Now and Then

Here are some photos related to my previous post on the Cabazon Dinosaurs. This is the Wheel Inn Restaurant which sits right next to the roadside dinos. The place was once owned by Claude Bell, creator of the Dinosaurs.
In addition to using the Dinosaurs for "Pee-Wee's Big Adventure", director Tim Burton and actor Paul Reubens also filmed inside the diner. Here you can see Pee-Wee entering the restaurant and a view of how it looks today. Those pies look yummy!
The place looks pretty much the same, with the exception of some different booths.
Of course I had to eat lunch in the Large Marge memorial booth.
The counter, where Pee-Wee first meets Simone. Hope you enjoyed the pics.

5 comments:

monday-morgue said...

awesome!

monday-morgue said...

When I went there a few weeks ago(inspired by your previous post), the waitress had on a funny cavewoman dress. We were starving...and ordered the French Dip w/ Onion Rings, Minestrone Soup and Lasagna. The food was great, in a diner sort of way. And, it even came w/ a free slice of pie!

Eric Deuel said...

Funny how much they changed it around for the movie.. Looks cool! How did you like the food Kevin?

jriggity said...

HA!! Awesome!

jriggity

Kevin MacLean said...

The food was pretty good. I had spagetti and meatballs.