Here’s a little trip down memory lane! Dorchester’s former Englewood Diner is featured in a 2002 episode of Classic Chronicle, highlighting the beloved diner’s journey from Boston to Maine.

The diner, once a familiar spot for Dorchester residents, made its way through several locations before landing in Eliot, Maine, where restaurant owner Matt LaTellier planned to give it a new home along Route 236.

Built in 1941, the diner sat in Peabody Square (near Ashmont Station)in Dorchest er until the late 1970s, and briefly operated again in Dorchester in the late 1980s.

Fun fact: The Englewood Diner also appeared in the movie Road to Perdition.

You can watch the Classic Chronicle segment here on WCVB’s website.

Editor’s note: The Maine move was part of the diner’s history, not its final destination. It later returned to Massachusetts and became the Red Line Diner in Brighton.

Known as one of the most-moved diners in history, the Englewood Diner traveled through several Massachusetts towns, Chicago (where it was used in filming Road to Perdition), Salisbury, and Eliot, Maine. In 2012, New Balance purchased the diner and brought it back to Boston, relocating it to its property in Brighton. The diner was restored, renamed the Red Line Diner, and is now used for private New Balance functions rather than being open to the public.

Image: Englewood Diner, 1970s vintage photo by Richard J.S. Gutman via Diner Hotline.