New venue transports customers back to the 1950s
April 5, 2016
Located at 564 Main Street, ACai??i??s Diner is the most recent addition to Stroudsburg’s revitalizing strip of shops. Since its grand opening in early February, ACai??i??s main purpose is to serve the public with not only great food, but also an atmosphere that shows the retro-ness of the 50ai??i??s.
Owners AJ Hiller and Craig DeBoer are natives to the Stroudsburg area, and have been wanting to create something special in their hometown.
The atmosphere of the diner is a glorious mixed bag of environments. The interior consists of a diner sitting area, an ice cream bar, a small movie viewing area, and an arcade. The sitting area consists of various 45 records, ’50s movie posters, ’50s memorabilia, and advertisements of candy being sold in that era. The movie area is a stage with speakers for performances, and a projector for movie nights. The arcade has various machines such as Ms. Pac-Man, Centipede, and Jurassic Park: The Lost World arcade machine. Sophomore Kristen Dougher can agree, as she says that ai???the arcade was a lot of fun.”
ACai??i??s also offers live events every night, such as Thursday Karaoke Nights, Monday Trivia Nights, and Tuesday Double-Feature Movie Nights. In the spirit of the 50ai??i??s atmosphere, ACai??i??s also has items on their menu named after famous 1950’s Hollywood stars or musicians. The main speciality of ACai??i??s is the Big Bopper: a A? pound burger named in dedication after Jiles ai???Big Bopperai??? Richardson Jr, who was a famous disc jockey that passed away after a major plane accident in 1959.
But that’s not to say that there’s just the Big Bopper. ACai??i??s menu also consists of of items such as the ai???Wimpyai???: a homemade sloppy joe. ACai??i??s also serves burgers, pizza, milkshakes, root beer floats, and much more.
When asked about future plans for the store, DeBoer expressed enthusiasm.
ai???For our arcade section, we plan on getting Frogger, Pac-Man, some fighting games, and a multi-game cabinet,” said Deboer.
Along with the shop, Hiller and DeBour also plan on having one of the nearby shops down the hallway become a MMA training spot.
ACai??i??s is open every day from 7:00 a.m. to 11 p.m.
![A Promax Super Jumbo boombox (2014.270.2.1a) used as a prop by the character Radio Raheem in the Spike Lee directed picture, Do the Right Thing. The boombox includes a dual audio casette tape deck, an equilizer section, radio dial, coloured light display, and a pair each of 8 subwoofers, midranges, and tweeters. There are sections of red, yellow, and green electical tape with black ink text on the sides and top of the player. There are also rectangular black, green, and yellow Public Enemy stickers adhered to both the PR and PL side of the player. On the lower back of the boombox is handwritten text in gold ink reading [BROOKLYN, NY / 3/17/90 / To Gene / RADIO RAHEEM LIVES / LOVE, Spike Lee / FIGHT THE POWER]. There is a metal handle attached to the top of the player, around which two braided bracelets (black-and-white 2014.270.2.1b, coloured 2014.270.2.1c) and multi-coloured printed cloth (2014.270.2.1d) have been tied. The rewind button on the PR tape deck has fallen off but is stored with the boombox (2014.270.2.1e). The boombox had an audio cassette in the PR deck that has been removed (2014.270.2.2), titled JAZZ CLUB / Vocal. The cassette is off-white with black text and is printed with track titles, manufacturing information, and serial number. Date: 1980s. Record ID: nmaahc_2014.270.2.](https://shsnews.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG-2612-1-475x309.jpg)
