Roadside Architecture Arts and Entertainment United States

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Diners and other structures serving the American motorist.

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• - Online directory of roadside architecture featuring photos of classic diners, motels, gas stations, route 66, googie coffee shops, and highway history
  
• - A non-profit organization established in 1996 to recognize the diner's cultural and historical significance as well as its national importance.
  
• - A collection of night photography by Troy Paiva of the abandoned roadside west - buildings, signs, vehicles and scrapyards.
  
• - Aims to identify, conserve, promote, and interpret the cultural, historical, natural, recreational, and economic resources along the historic Lincoln Highway in Pennsylvania.
  
• - A gallery of expandable thumbnail photographs of the vernacular roadside attractions of New York State highways.
  
• - Debra Jane's extensive listings with photographs of historical eateries, giant structures, lodging, miniature golf, advertisement signs, and gas stations across the USA. Listed by category and by state.
  
• - Travel guide to offbeat attractions, tourist traps, weird vacations, and roadtrips. Includes tourism news.
  
• - David W. Nystuen's project to photograph all the roadside attractions in the state.
  
• - A tour of 1950s roadside signage and buildings. Includes sections on the futuristic Googie style and its polynesian-influenced cousin - the Tiki look.
  
• - Aaron Marcavitch takes a scholarly look at amuseument parks, diners, drive-ins, gas stations, motels and hotels.
  
• - A celebration of a fading part of Americana: the motel.
  
• - E-mail discussion group about the diner and its new museum.
  
• - SCA is devoted to the study and preservation of American 20th-century roadside architecture.
  
• - A collection of roadside attractions, road art and diners. Self-confessed tackaholic Steve takes a historical and humorous look at the culture of roadside kitsch.
  
• - Glenn Wells tours roadside diners and charts the rise and fall of Howard Johnson's restaurant chain. Includes an e-mail discussion group.
  
  

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