Shark Fin Ice Tray

I'd always assumed it was just something out of the artist's imagination. Huh.

Part 1, 2 and 3 of finding nothing? That could've been boiled down to "nope, didn't find it".

It's the search that's interesting. I love this type of sleuthing.

Wait... where's Elvis and Marilyn Monroe in this one?

....and Bogie and James Dean. The pop takeoff is probably better known than the Hopper original.

Why does everybody have to assume it's a real place? It could be completely from the artist's imagination or it could be a composite, a real diner depicted against a different background. When painting one can make these choices, from something as simple as painting a real scene and leaving out something ugly to iventing the whole scene.

Nobody is every likely to prove this conclusively since the artist never told.

Quite right, Jolly.