Looking to start a SMALL business? We mean a REALLY SMALL business. Well, your chance at cashing in is happening in Loveland- with a Valentine!

Valentine Diner
Dave Jensen, TSM
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It’s a Valentine Diner. Valentine Manufacturing spent over 40 years making these little diners. Technically, they can trace their roots all the way back to the start of White Castle burgers! The Valentine’s only held maybe 10 people- staff included. You’d see them all along Route 66 back in the 50s and 60s, but today, there are few and far between. Maybe that’s why this little guy at First Street and Lincoln in Downtown Loveland stands out so. “Will you just look at that?!”

It’s in pretty good shape with a lot of original fixtures, this old diner. The Lovelander who owns this Valentine, had planned to open it there at First Street and Lincoln when he bought it, but he recently sold the property to the City of Loveland as they make way to revitalize downtown with their South Catalyst Project. So now, the old Valentine sits for sale.

The building just screams of nostalgia! Where wouldn’t a diner like this, with the ‘Valentine’ name, NOT look good within ‘The Sweetheart City?’ They city could purchase it and put it out by the Welcome Center off of Hwy 34. They could put it, as the owner suggests, at Pocket Park in downtown. Maybe out on the west side of Loveland on the way to Estes Park?

The owner is hoping to get $125,000 for the diner. We’re hoping he gets a buyer, so we can swing by for a burger and a shake!

[Source: Reporter-Herald]

 

 

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