Knowledge: roadside
- Googie ∞
See Also:
- arts → architecture → building types → iconic
- recreation → roads and highways → north america → united states
- society → history → by topic → social history → pop culture
Links
- Roadside Peek
http://www.roadsidepeek.com/ - A tour of 1950s roadside signage and buildings. Includes sections on the futuristic Googie style and its polynesian-influenced cousin - the Tiki look.
- American Diner Museum
http://www.dinermuseum.org - A non-profit organization established in 1996 to recognize the diner's cultural and historical significance as well as its national importance.
- Society for Commercial Archeology
http://www.sca-roadside.org/ - SCA is devoted to the study and preservation of American 20th-century roadside architecture.
- Minnesota's Roadside Architecture
http://www.mnhs.org/places/other/roadside/ - David W. Nystuen's project to photograph all the roadside attractions in the state.
- Commercial Archaeology
http://members.tripod.com/~RWUHP/ca/ - Aaron Marcavitch takes a scholarly look at amuseument parks, diners, drive-ins, gas stations, motels and hotels.
- Diner City
http://www.dinercity.com - Online directory of roadside architecture featuring photos of classic diners, motels, gas stations, route 66, googie coffee shops, and highway history
- Lincoln Highway Heritage Corridor
http://www.lhhc.org - Aims to identify, conserve, promote, and interpret the cultural, historical, natural, recreational, and economic resources along the historic Lincoln Highway in Pennsylvania.
- Roadside America
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/ - Travel guide to offbeat attractions, tourist traps, weird vacations, and roadtrips. Includes tourism news.
- Yahoo! Groups -- AmericanDinerMuseum
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AmericanDinerMuseum/ - E-mail discussion group about the diner and its new museum.
- Back On Tack
http://www.gethep.net/road/ - 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.
- NY Roadside
http://webnow.com/nyroadside - A gallery of expandable thumbnail photographs of the vernacular roadside attractions of New York State highways.
- Roadside Architecture
http://www.agilitynut.com/roadside.html - 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.
- RoadsideFans
http://www.roadsidefans.com - Glenn Wells tours roadside diners and charts the rise and fall of Howard Johnson's restaurant chain. Includes an e-mail discussion group.
- Motel Americana
http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/wooda/motel/ - A celebration of a fading part of Americana: the motel.
- Roadside Online
http://www.btwmagazine.com/ - Magazine with news articles about related features. Online version offers a weblog.
- America's Landmark: Under the Orange Roof
http://www.orangeroof.org/ - Unofficial site documenting former and current Howard Johnson's restaurants and motels.
- HoJoLand
http://hojoland.homestead.com/ - Tribute site to Howard Johnson's Restaurants. Includes history and directory of existing locations.
- American Highway Project
http://www.highwayproject.org/ - Uses photography to document vanishing Americana such as motels, billboards, service stations, highway signs, tourist attractions, drive-in theatres and diners. Site also includes news.
- The American Roadside
http://www.theamericanroadside.com - Extensive photographs, news, memories and musings on diners, drive-ins, motels, cafes and other remnants of the American roadside. Members may create their own photograph galleries.
- Judy's Diner Place
http://www.geocities.com/jagdinerplace/ - A personal tribute to the American diner, with exterior and interior photographs.
- Lost America Night Photography
http://www.lostamerica.com/ - A collection of night photography by Troy Paiva of the abandoned roadside west - buildings, signs, vehicles and scrapyards.
- Blue Roof Chasers
http://www.geocities.com/pangaeascape/ - Dedicated to the photographic preservation of the Stuckey's architectural legacy.
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