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One of Atlanta's last meat and three restaurants is closing. The Silver Grill, a tiny 50-seat diner in Midtown, has been serving country cooking - like collard greens, country fried steak and peach cobbler - since 1945.
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One of Atlanta's last meat and three restaurants is closing. The Silver Grill, a tiny 50-seat diner in Midtown, has been serving country cooking - like collard greens, country fried steak and peach cobbler - since 1945.
Broadcast History
First produced for WABE, Atlanta
Transcript
SLUG: Closing of the Silver Grill: Remembrance of Things Fried
By Philip L. Graitcer
LEDE:
One of Atlanta?s last meat and three restaurants is closing. The Silver Grill, a tiny 50-seat diner in Midtown, has been serving country cooking - like collard greens, country fried steak and peach cobbler - since 1945.
Philip Graitcer visited this dying institution.
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AMB: Silver Grill NAT running through piece ? dishes, orders being taken, fryer cooking?
PG: The Silver Grill looks a little like a railroad car - long and narrow with windows on one side looking out on Monroe Drive. There are half dozen booths and a formica counter stretches the length of the restaurant. Hanging on the brightly painted walls are accolades for the Silver Grill?s country cooking.
74 year old Helen Hickey and her sister are finishing up their fried chicken platters. They?ve been eating...
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