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America's Landmark: Under the Orange Roof - Unofficial site documenting former and current Howard Johnson's restaurants and motels.
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.
Meta Description: [ Photographic Documentation and Preservation of America's Vanishing Roadside Culture ]
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Atomic Number 10 - Photos of vintage roadside signs, mostly neon.
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.
Meta Description: [ The search for tacky roadside attractions, offbeat architecture and down home cooking ]
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
Meta Description: [ 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.
Meta Description: [ Tribute site to Howard Johnson's Restaurants.
Find out what's new under the orange roof! ]
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.
Meta Description: [ Contains pictures and facts regarding the history and current state of the historic Lincoln Highway, including Lincoln Highway Heritage Corridor activities and collectibles. ]
Lost America Night Photography - A collection of night photography by Troy Paiva of the abandoned roadside west - buildings, signs, vehicles and scrapyards.
Meta Description: [ night photography, light painting, roadside, low light photography, full moon photography, abandoned, ghost towns, ruins, junkyard ]
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.
Meta Description: [ Homepage for Roadside America, travel guide to unusual attractions, tourist traps, weird vacations, and road trips. ]
Roadside Architecture - 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.
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.
Meta Description: [ SCA is devoted to the study and preservation of American roadside architecture. ]
The American Roadside - 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.
Meta Description: [ The American Roadside. Latest news, photos, memories and musings on the great American Roadside experience, from diners to drive-ins! Free photo galleries for members! ]
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The Pottstown Cup - Levengood Dairies of Pottstown built three milk and ice cream retail stores shaped like cups with straws protruding from their tops. Amazingly, all three survive.
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Yahoo! Groups -- AmericanDinerMuseum - E-mail discussion group about the diner and its new museum.
Meta Description: [ AmericanDinerMuseum: AMERICAN DINER MUSEUM ]
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