She ran another restaurant in Lida while grubstaking with Shipway. Never one to stay in place too long, Diminy soon moved on to Lida with her lover A.W. She was so optimistic that the name stuck for the rest of her life and she even named her Rhyolite saloon the Happy Days. “Oh, happy day,” when asked how her food was. It was here that Diminy became “Happy Days” Diminy she fed a “bum” who remarked She sold soup and sandwiches, as well as beers for twenty five cents-half what her competitors charged. She spent some time prospecting in Goldfield and Tonopah before ending up in Rhyolite, where she ran a small saloon. She decided to leave to prospect minerals and left soon after for Nevada, leaving behind a husband who went to Alaska to mine. She arrived in San Francisco, just in time for the 1906 Earthquake.
With no more worldly possessions, Diminy had no qualms packing her bag and hiking out west. It is unclear if she left New York for a reason other than her insatiable wanderlust, but she was soon in Louisiana where she fell ill with malaria and had to sell her silverware to pay her bills.
Her multilingual background made it easy for her to converse with her customers and to run a rather successful restaurant. She eventually decided to take her adventure across the Atlantic, arriving in New York City where she ran a restaurant.
Documentation from her early years is scarce, but historian Sally Zanjani was able to piece together that after her parents died, she visited Paris, Poland, and Egypt and spoke at least four languages fluently. She was born in 1852 in Bavaria but lost her parents rather young. Alice Diminy’s life started across the globe from where she would gain her fame.
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