When was it set up and who ran it first. The property was probably purchased from the Armington or Kent familys.

I don't know who had the first eatery on that site, but my grandfather, Arthur W. Case, had a little business there called "The Clam Shell" (I have a photo) which sold chowder & clamcakes. No one knows the exact date, but I'm estimating somewhere in the 1920-1920's. Would love to know more if you have any info.

Two of my father in laws cousins worked there in about the 1950's and My husband thought they owed it
These gals would have been Ida Finizia Curtis and Flora Finizia Harrington

Barbara Newman Finizia born in RI now in FL
Searching ~Newman, McConnell, Cahir, Dunlevy, Crosby~
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Steve Bettencourt started it right after WWII, his son still lives here and I will contact him. Before that there was a place called Chic's, but it did not survive long according to the city directory.

It went on to be the Washington Diner

I can remember lunch from there when I worked at Industrial National at six corners

"Mrs. Harrington had also been a waitress for 15 years for the former Washington Grill

Thanks to both of the respondents, I did find the owner who started it and ran it for all the years it was open. I would like to find an early picture of it though, the owner lost his in a fire.

My grandfather Stephen Bettencourt bought and ran the diner after WWII. It was sold in 2006 now it stands as an abandoned parking lot fenced up growing weeds. We miss it a lot.

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