Originally named Woody's Diner for owner Woody Sturgis, the factory-built Silk City diner car was brought from Paterson, New Jersey, to Selbyville in 1950. A label inside lists its serial number as 5092, with 50 indicating the year it was fabricated and 92 showing it was the ninety-second Silk City car built that year. It quickly became a popular stop for travelers on U.S. Route 113 and a gathering place for local residents and community groups. In 1951, meetings there by poultry industry members led to the establishment of the Eastern Shore Poultry Growers Exchange, a broiler chicken auction that operated from 1952 to 1969. Hosted in Selbyville and broadcast on three area radio stations, the Exchange played an integral role in transforming the Delmarva poultry industry, and the diner had a bank of telephones along its back wall for placing auction bids. The Sturgis family owned the property until 1983, when the Doyle family purchased it, built an exterior roof over the diner car, and added a larger dining room. The interior of the diner car remains largely intact, with only the vinyl on the booths changed, and it is the oldest operating and best-preserved Silk City diner car in the state.