24 Hours at the Golden Apple

I found this radio program to be brilliant. It took a social fixture, the diner, and basically stood in as a fly on the wall to monitor all of the comings and goings of the patrons. It seemed as though the diner attracted all sorts of people of different age groups, social classes, and job types. The regulars seemed to be the life's blood of this public place, people from the neighborhood. It was interesting how everybody was so different from each other depending on the time of day and the age group, but they all had this common tie that brought them together in having a similar feeling about this diner being almost a home base or staging area for their day. It was peculiar that the owners and waitresses did not seem to mind that there were regulars that would hang out all day because that is something that is unheard of on the West coast.