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Tom Arnold's Old Places: Rudford's Restaurant
24/7 diner is the same as it ever was
The idea of writing about old places in San Diego County has been something I’ve been mulling around for years – but I kept putting it off because coming up with the parameters was a lot harder than I imagined. In the end, I decided to focus on businesses and restaurants that have been in the same place, with the same name and line of business, for at least 50 years.
In June of 1963, President John F. Kennedy went cruising down El Cajon Boulevard in his bubble-top Lincoln, the same car in which he would be assassinated in Dallas just five months later. In the background of the photo taken that day, the sign for Rudford’s Restaurant tops the 24-hour diner, which had been opened four years after the end of World War II by John Thomas "Tommy" Rudford. Today, the diner is still there, the Rudford’s sign is the same, and the menu still offers such traditional Americana breakfast, lunch and dinner fare as biscuits and gravy, Denver omelets, BLTs, chicken fried steak and fried filet of cod. Legendary DJ Shotgun Tom Kelly is among the regulars: “I love the people and I love the food,” he says. “And I love the food because I went there when I was a kid, with my parents, and they kept all the same recipes.”
Editor's note: In the Reader's early years, it included Rudford's in a roundup of late night eateries. Not long after, Reader writer Amy Chu profiled the waitstaff.
Here's something you might be interested in.
Tom Arnold's Old Places: Rudford's Restaurant
24/7 diner is the same as it ever was
Tom Arnold's Old Places: Rudford's Restaurant
24/7 diner is the same as it ever was
The idea of writing about old places in San Diego County has been something I’ve been mulling around for years – but I kept putting it off because coming up with the parameters was a lot harder than I imagined. In the end, I decided to focus on businesses and restaurants that have been in the same place, with the same name and line of business, for at least 50 years.
In June of 1963, President John F. Kennedy went cruising down El Cajon Boulevard in his bubble-top Lincoln, the same car in which he would be assassinated in Dallas just five months later. In the background of the photo taken that day, the sign for Rudford’s Restaurant tops the 24-hour diner, which had been opened four years after the end of World War II by John Thomas "Tommy" Rudford. Today, the diner is still there, the Rudford’s sign is the same, and the menu still offers such traditional Americana breakfast, lunch and dinner fare as biscuits and gravy, Denver omelets, BLTs, chicken fried steak and fried filet of cod. Legendary DJ Shotgun Tom Kelly is among the regulars: “I love the people and I love the food,” he says. “And I love the food because I went there when I was a kid, with my parents, and they kept all the same recipes.”
Editor's note: In the Reader's early years, it included Rudford's in a roundup of late night eateries. Not long after, Reader writer Amy Chu profiled the waitstaff.