Bacon ’n’ Eggs for 65 cents was on offer at this New York City diner in 1959. | Photo by Angelo Rizzuto Here’s the thing with photography: you can take a mundane photo and think, ‘Why did I take that?’ But years later, that same photo is a fascinating artifact from a bygone era. I think that’s where these photos of American diners fall, the once ubiquitous lunch cars that permeated highways across the United States peaked in the 1940s before fast food chains largely replaced them. The proprietor of this diner made for truckers, peers out his window in Cortland, New York. | Photo by John Collier, Jr., 1941. This ironically named diner in Philadelphia was pictured in 1938. As the Library of Congress notes in its blog post , the diners were often prefabricated and then transported on trains, hence the distinct design so they could fit on rail cars. As a result, they were often small and narrow.…