Providence is considered the birthplace of the diner, with the lineage being traced back to Walter Scott's horse-drawn lunch cart in 1872. Haven Brothers Diner is an establishment that owes much more to Scott's original concept than to today's more common stationary constructions of chrome and neon. This Providence tradition goes back to January 10, 1893, when Irish immigrant Anna Coffey Haven first opened her own horse-drawn lunch wagon at the corner of Dorrance and Washington Streets. The business passed into the hands of Dennis Haven and his daughter, Catherine Haven Gannon, in 1927, and although the horse was replaced at some point in favor of a truck, the diner remained small and mobile. The current scruffy silver box is the third wagon to house the diner. The Havens purchased it in 1949 from the Fred W. Morse Company, a Providence tin-ware manufacturer. The Haven family continued serving late-shift workers, theater-goers and government employees until 1953, when the business was sold to Albert Mollicone. He in turn ran the business for thirty-five years before turning over the reins to Savero Guisti and Jack Ferry in 1988. Haven Bros. Diner continues to be run by the Guisti family from a location next to Providence City Hall, off Dorrance Street. The diner is pulled into position every evening at 4:30pm, and at 5am, at the end of a long night, the restaurant returns to its daytime resting place at 72 Spruce Street on Federal Hill.