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Originally Posted by Keith P.
Interesting to me, I have no recollection of Joe's Diner whatsoever. Was it upstairs or in the lower level? Roughly where was it located? I am guessing it must not have been around all that long.
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I only remember it from a few shopping expeditions away from my family's normal Dartmouth haunts (Mic Mac, Penhorn, Woodlawn and K-Mart Malls) as a youngster. I think it was second level, but it could have been first level. It was definitely near "centre court", although I am having a hard time trying to visualize how it fits in relative to the fountain (which is gone now, but may not have even been there originally.) It seems like it was right around where the fountain was or just above it on the second floor.
With all the changes and conversion to office space, I have trouble imagining what the original layout of the first level was. I have a pretty good memory of the extent of the second level, and how the cinemas, Woolco and the smaller boutique shops related. The food court was downstairs, kiosks wrapped around a central hub, closer to the Barrington Street wall. Down that main path that now leads from Tim Hortons towards the NSLC, the food court was on the right (east) side and the grocery store and old NSLC were on the left (west) side.
Most of these memories however are from my visits in the mid-80's and onward when I was in high school+. Joe's Diner was gone by then and I believe the mall had changed substantially since I had been visiting as a kid in the 70's
EDIT: I just looked at the photo again, and I guess that is the fountain in the foreground. Assuming it was in roughly the same place as it was most recently then Green Bastard is probably right. Just about where Scotiabank is, although I think Joe's Diner was stand-alone, ie. you could walk all the way around it, rather than a storefront like Scotiabank is now.