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After a long and bumpy journey to get back on its feet, the legendary Moondance Diner is up and running as a reimagined truck stop joint in the town of LaBarge, WY—population: 431. Once an unmissable icon of Sixth Avenue south of Houston, Vince and Cheryl Pierce have had it operating for a month in their hometown where they hauled the diner out to on a flatbed truck two years ago. The Moondance is the only full-time restaurant in LaBarge, a town the News reports has "no stoplights, two police officers, five churches and an outdoor rodeo arena." The mayor of LaBarge told the paper, "Everybody knows everybody around here. We don't have shootings or gangs." The Pierces have attempted to keep the original charm of the diner with its penny-tiled floor from the '30s and vintage milkshake glasses, which have been such a hit that the restaurant ran out of ice cream during its first week. One truck driver said, "It's a bit of culture shock for us. I don't even know where Manhattan is...I'd probably be eating microwave spaghetti tonight if it wasn't here."