Yankee Flyer Diner Mural and Restoration

The Yankee Flyer Diner was a cornerstone of downtown Nashua and stood on this site until it was sold in 1965 and moved to Newburyport, Massachusetts, marking the end of an era. A mural painted by James Aponovich in 1997 captures life in Nashua in the 1940s and 50s and includes local figures such as waitress Lucille Ravenelle Tessler; Henry Willett in a vintage car; Jim and Sandy Stellos in the Stellos electric truck; Ana Aponovich selling the Nashua Telegraph; Eliot Carter; Bernard Pastor; Peter Pleakas; Chris Kyriax, owner of the diner, whose widow Mary Anne became the last owner after his death in 1952; Jared Goyette; Fred Robichaud with William Reich and Mrs. Reich; Muriel Shaw; Samuel Coronis, founder of Coronis Cleaners in 1936; physicians William Thibodeau, Charles Goyette, and Normand Cote; Gary Wingate, great-grandson of Frank H. Wingate, founder of Wingate's Pharmacy in 1900; and a sidewalk inscription, "MERI WAS HERE," for Meri Goyette, who promoted downtown Nashua beautification and revitalization and initiated the mural project. In 2015, City Arts Nashua organized a community project to restore the mural, and James Aponovich, assisted by Elizabeth Johansson Aponovich, restored it in their Peterborough studio before it was reinstalled and dedicated on November 28, 2015.

Nashua, New Hampshire · United States