Place 16: Nan's Luncheonette
1958; 1985Beside the Aladdin, with the escape alley between them. The mapped plots express adjacency rather than measured facades.
About Nan's Luncheonette
Nan’s Luncheonette is a small Main Street restaurant beside the Aladdin Theater. In the 1958 commercial block, the two establishments are separated by the fenced alley used as a side route from the theater. Freese’s Department Store stands across Main, completing a compact group of mutually described landmarks. Nan’s remains part of the remembered downtown in 1985. The atlas represents its storefront as a neighboring business rather than as a measured or architecturally documented facade.
Why this pin is marked A
Named in the novel. The street or the site is named in the text; the exact lot is the atlas’s.
Nan’s is marked A because its adjacency to the Aladdin and the alley between them are explicit, and both businesses occupy the same side of Main opposite Freese’s. This three-part relationship fixes the luncheonette within a particular commercial grouping even without a numbered address. The exact order along the block beyond the shared alley, storefront width, setback, and parcel depth are not supplied. The map preserves the stated adjacency while treating the individual lot and facade as reconstruction.
