‘Gilmore Girls’ Star Scott Patterson Gets Nostalgic About Jersey Diners and His ‘Beautiful’ Haddonfield Childhood

Upon moving to the West Coast many moons ago, South Jersey-raised actor Scott Patterson was in for a hearty serving of culture shock. But when it came to playing gruff-yet-gold-hearted diner owner Luke Danes on the early-aughts dramedy Gilmore Girls, he inhabited the role with ease. He’d grown up, after all, in the diner capital of the world, haunting Ponzio’s in Cherry Hill after school…