Roadside Architecture Arts and Entertainment United States


A tour of 1950s roadside signage and buildings. Includes sections on the futuristic Googie style and its Polynesian-influenced cousin - the Tiki look.








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See Also:
  • Society for Commercial Archeology - SCA is devoted to the study and preservation arts and entertainment arts and entertainment of American 20th-century roadside architecture.
  • HoJoLand - Tribute site to Howard Johnson\\'s Restaurants. Includes history and roadside directory of existing locations.
  • Lincoln Highway Heritage Corridor - Aims to identify, conserve, promote, and interpret the cultural, historical, architecture natural, recreational, and economic resources along the historic Lincoln Highway architecture in Pennsylvania.
  • American Diner Museum - A non-profit organization established in 1996 to recognize the diner\\'s cultural and historical significance as well as its national importance.
  • Roadside Peek - A tour of 1950s roadside signage and buildings. Includes arts and entertainment sections on the futuristic Googie style and its Polynesian-influenced cousin arts and entertainment - the Tiki look.
  • NY Roadside - A gallery of expandable thumbnail photographs of the arts and entertainment arts and entertainment vernacular roadside attractions of New York State highways.
  • The American Roadside - Includes photographs, news, memories and musings on diners, architecture drive-ins, motels, cafes and other remnants of the architecture American roadside. Members may create their own photograph architecture galleries.
  • RoadsideFans - Glenn Wells tours roadside diners and charts the rise and arts and entertainment fall of Howard Johnson\\'s restaurant chain. Includes an e-mail discussion arts and entertainment group.
  • Diner City - Online directory of roadside architecture featuring photos of classic diners, motels, gas stations, route 66, googie coffee shops, and highway history
  • Motel Americana - A celebration of a fading part of Americana: the motel.
  • Lost America Night Photography - A collection of night photography by Troy Paiva roadside of the roadside abandoned roadside west - buildings, signs, roadside vehicles and scrapyards.
  • Roadside Online - Magazine with news articles about related features. Online version arts and entertainment offers a weblog.
  • Blue Roof Chasers - Dedicated to the photographic preservation of the Stuckey\'s architecture architectural legacy.
  • America's Landmark: Under the Orange Roof - Unofficial site documenting former and current Howard Johnson\\'s restaurants and motels.
  • American Highway Project - Uses photography to document vanishing Americana such as arts and entertainment roadside motels, billboards, service stations, highway signs, tourist attractions, arts and entertainment roadside drive-in theatres and diners. Site also includes news.
  • Roadside Architecture - Debra Jane\\'s 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.
  • Yahoo! Groups -- AmericanDinerMuseum - E-mail discussion group about the diner and its architecture new museum.
  • Minnesota's Roadside Architecture - David W. Nystuen\\'s project to photograph all the roadside roadside attractions architecture in the state.
  • Back On Tack - A collection of roadside attractions, road art and roadside diners. Self-confessed tackaholic Steve takes a historical and roadside humorous look at the culture of roadside kitsch.
  • Commercial Archaeology - Aaron Marcavitch takes a scholarly look at amuseument parks, diners, drive-ins, gas stations, motels and hotels.
  • Roadside America - Travel guide to offbeat attractions, tourist traps, weird architecture vacations, and roadtrips. Includes tourism news.
  • Judy's Diner Place - A personal tribute to the American diner, with roadside exterior and interior photographs.


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