‘New’ Nick’s Diner

Evokes Fond Memories,

Fond Food

By JENNIFER HILL

By JENNIFER HILL

ONEONTA - Sheena Thorsland has fond memories of Nick’s Diner.
“You’d drink, you’d get hungry, and go to Nick’s,” she said. “We’d eat fries with gravy a lot, so we kept that on the menu.”
Sheena re-opened the Oneonta eatery with her husband, Rodney, last weekend, and all the old stories came out as diners returned to the scene.
“They claimed they never emptied out the chili pot,” Bruce Hinkley, who is in his mid-60s and frequented Nick’s in the 1960s, said, as he ate at the Nick’s counter Monday night. “If you had the chili, you had outrageous dreams afterward, I think because it fermented.”
Hinkley said he would go to Nick’s after drinking in the bars, which closed at 1 or 2 a.m.