The Breakfast Club. Leitz Summar 5cm.

Over the last few months, on my way to our local supermarket in the Allston neighborhood, I have noticed that a whole city block of buildings had, one by one, become vacant.  At one end, a small office block, next a gas station, then a Deco diner, followed by a Subway franchise, and at the other end, a dilapidated dwelling.  Then, overnight, the fencing went up around the entire kit and kaboodle.  The developers have arrived.  Some years back, Harvard University made the decision to expand its campus - empire - across the river from Cambridge to annex Allston.  Their cohort of property managers set about acquiring land for a new Engineering school, an IT kingdom and an expansion of the Business School.  Following right along behind are the developers, rubbing their hands together and licking their chops on the way to a quick pile of money by buying up old commercial and residential buildings, knocking them flat and putting up huge blocks of ugly apartments to house students and faculty for the new campus.  This process has aided in sending Boston rental and real estate prices into the stratosphere. 
Of the buildings in this particular package, the diner, called The Breakfast Club, is the most interesting.  I spent some time this afternoon poking my lens through the chain link fence to photograph this edifice, one of many from another era slowly disappearing from the face of the earth.  The stainless steel sheathing and vague appearance of a railway carriage pay tribute to the heyday of rail travel in the U.S. in the 1930s and '40s before the automobile and air travel did the trains in.
I have included several Extras to depict the Deco details of the place.  The most poignant for me is the side window which must be adjacent to a booth.  It was lit by one of those quintessential  industrial lamps, - they're called Barn Lamps now - which still peeks coyly out.  It will all be gone within a matter of months.