Architecture Roadside
Below are some useful links about Roadside on Architecture:
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- Arts: Architecture: Building Types: Iconic (10)
- Recreation: Roads and Highways: North America: United States (434)
- Society: History: By Topic: Social History: Pop Culture (55)
| 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. |
| American Highway Project - 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 - Includes 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. |
| America's Landmark: Under the Orange Roof - Unofficial site documenting former and current Howard Johnson's restaurants and motels. |
| Back On Tack - 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. |
| Blue Roof Chasers - Dedicated to the photographic preservation of the Stuckey's architectural legacy. |
| Commercial Archaeology - Aaron Marcavitch takes a scholarly look at amuseument parks, diners, drive-ins, gas stations, motels and hotels. |
| Diner City - Online directory of roadside architecture featuring photos of classic diners, motels, gas stations, route 66, googie coffee shops, and highway history |
| HoJoLand - Tribute site to Howard Johnson's Restaurants. Includes history and directory of existing locations. |
| Judy's Diner Place - A personal tribute to the American diner, with exterior and interior photographs. |
| Lincoln Highway Heritage Corridor - Aims to identify, conserve, promote, and interpret the cultural, historical, natural, recreational, and economic resources along the historic Lincoln Highway in Pennsylvania. |
| Lost America Night Photography - A collection of night photography by Troy Paiva of the abandoned roadside west - buildings, signs, vehicles and scrapyards. |
| Minnesota's Roadside Architecture - David W. Nystuen's project to photograph all the roadside attractions in the state. |
| Motel Americana - A celebration of a fading part of Americana: the motel. |
| NY Roadside - A gallery of expandable thumbnail photographs of the vernacular roadside attractions of New York State highways. |
| Roadside America - Travel guide to offbeat attractions, tourist traps, weird vacations, and roadtrips. Includes tourism 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. |
| Roadside Online - Magazine with news articles about related features. Online version offers a weblog. |
| Roadside Peek - A tour of 1950s roadside signage and buildings. Includes sections on the futuristic Googie style and its Polynesian-influenced cousin - the Tiki look. |
| RoadsideFans - Glenn Wells tours roadside diners and charts the rise and fall of Howard Johnson's restaurant chain. Includes an e-mail discussion group. |
| Society for Commercial Archeology - SCA is devoted to the study and preservation of American 20th-century roadside architecture. |
| Yahoo! Groups -- AmericanDinerMuseum - E-mail discussion group about the diner and its new museum. |