Download or read book Classic Roadside Americana written by Michael Karl Witzel and published by Crestline. This book was released on 2006-06-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features a collection of full-color photographs that trace the cultural history of America's classic roadside attractions, including neon-trimmed hotels, drive-in restaurants, and the many sights that can be viewed while traveling along Route 66.
Download or read book Roadside America written by Jack Barth and published by Fireside Books. This book was released on 1986 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A trivia-filled odyssey across America that tells the reader, for example, where to see the world's largest twine ball and how to locate the Lawrence Welk museum.
Download or read book Roadside America written by Lucinda Lewis and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 2003-10-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mobility was the centerpiece of the modern way. The country turned it inventive spirit to the automobile in the 1890's. Early automotive designs featured varied sources of propulsion, and steam, gasoline, and electricity all had their proponents.
Download or read book Roadside America written by Lucinda Lewis and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 2000-10-01 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both the most complete survey available of 20th-century American cars & a glorious, nostalgic photographic portrait of the icons of roadside America.
Download or read book The New Roadside America written by Doug Kirby and published by Touchstone. This book was released on 1992 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are wacky, one-of-a-kind treasures lurking among the Gaps and Burger Kings alongside our highways and byways, and The New Roadside America hightlights them all--covering every interest and organized for easy reference. 250 photographs; line drawings.
Download or read book Roadside Giants written by Brian Butko and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Lucy, the colossal elephant-shaped building on the Jersey Shore, to the grand donut atop Randy's in Los Angeles, this full-color guide profiles the commercial giants that loom over America's highways. Created to sell products and promote tourism in a big way, they can be found all over the United States. The authors have traveled far and wide to bring readers the world's largest duck in Long Island, an enormous Amish couple in Pennsylvania Dutch Country, and towering Paul Bunyans all over the Midwest. There are buildings shaped like hot dogs, ice cream cones, and baskets, as well as the roadside phenomena known as "Muffler Men," giants who originally advertised mufflers but now have been converted to cowboys, Indians, spacemen, and pirates. Big fun!
Download or read book Remembering Roadside America written by John A. Jakle and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2011-09-30 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The use of cars and trucks over the past century has remade American geography—pushing big cities ever outward toward suburbanization, spurring the growth of some small towns while hastening the decline of others, and spawning a new kind of commercial landscape marked by gas stations, drive-in restaurants, motels, tourist attractions, and countless other retail entities that express our national love affair with the open road. By its very nature, this landscape is ever changing, indeed ephemeral. What is new quickly becomes old and is soon forgotten. In this absorbing book, John Jakle and Keith Sculle ponder how “Roadside America” might be remembered, especially since so little physical evidence of its earliest years survives. In straightforward and lively prose, supplemented by copious illustrations—historic and modern photographs, advertising postcards, cartoons, roadmaps—they survey the ways in which automobility has transformed life in the United States. Asking how we might best commemorate and preserve this part of our past—which has been so vital economically and politically, so significant to the cultural aspirations of ordinary Americans, yet so often ignored by scholars who dismiss it as kitsch—they propose the development of an actual outdoor museum that would treat seriously the themes of our roadside history. Certainly, museums have been created for frontier pioneering, the rise of commercial agriculture, and the coming of water- and steam-powered industrialization and transportation, especially the railroad. Is now not the time, the authors ask, for a museum forcefully exploring the automobile’s emergence and the changes it has brought to place and landscape? Such a museum need not deny the nostalgic appeal of roadsides past, but if done properly, it could also tell us much about what the authors describe as “the most important kind of place yet devised in the American experience.” John A. Jakle is Emeritus Professor of Geography at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Keith A. Sculle is the former head of research and education at the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency. They have coauthored such books as America’s Main Street Hotels: Transiency and Community in the Early Automobile Age; Motoring: The Highway Experience in America; Fast Food: Roadside Restaurants in the Automobile Age; and The Gas Station in America.
Download or read book Main Street to Miracle Mile written by Chester Liebs and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1995-08 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Traces the transformation of commercial development as it has moved from centralized main streets, out along the street car lines, to form the "miracle miles" and shopping malls of today ... Also explores the evolution of roadside buildings."--Back cover.
Download or read book Americana written by Michael Karl Witzel and published by Lowe & B. Hould Publishers. This book was released on 2003 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Americana Readside Memories Whether cruising down the streets of Anytown, U.S.A., or taking the family on a cross-country ride, the highway and its many sights, sounds, and smells are part of the culture and collective memory of generations of Americans. This book brings together the defining elements of our love affair with the open road. It includes Tim Steil's entertaining trip along America's Main Street, the storied Route 66 that once stretched in glorious excess from Chicago to LA. Michael Witzel takes us back to a time and place where service-with-a-smile meant something, presenting a nostalgic look at the places where travelers filled their cars with gas and their bellies with good grub. The gas stations and drive-in restaurants of old offered their own special charm and personality, a far cry from the cookie-cutter feel of today's strip malls and "convenience stores." These icons of roadside America are colorfully illustrated here with vintage ads and memorabilia along with photos of the aging landmarks today.
Download or read book Road Trip USA Appalachian Trail written by Jamie Jensen and published by Moon Travel. This book was released on 2016-05-03 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rediscover the Open Road! From the idyllic towns of New England to the charming heart of Dixie, Road Trip USA: Appalachian Trail is classic roadside Americana at your fingertips! Inside you'll find: Mile-by-mile highlights so you can make the most of America's two-lane highways through New England, New York, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, and Georgia Driving maps covering over 2,000 miles, from the north woods of Maine, through Pennsylvania Dutch Country, down to the Great Smoky Mountains Full-color vintage and modern photos and illustrations of past and present America, in a slim, portable guide excerpted from Road Trip USA Roadside curiosities and detours revealing the personalities, history, and kitschy character of the small towns and thriving cities along the route Expert advice from road warrior Jamie Jensen, who has zoomed along nearly 400,000 miles of highway in search of the perfect road trip Road Trip USA: Appalachian Trail is so full of the beauty of the American road, why wait to start your next adventure? Hit the Road!
Download or read book On the road again written by Kelly Huschke and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Road Trip USA Great River Road written by Jamie Jensen and published by Moon Travel. This book was released on 2016-04-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rediscover the Open Road! Take the scenic route along the mighty Mississippi River. Road Trip USA: Great River Road is classic roadside Americana at your fingertips! Inside you'll find: Mile-by-mile highlights so you can make the most of America's two-lane highways through Bemidji, Elvis Presley's Graceland, and Cajun Country Driving maps covering over 2,000 miles, from the Minnesota headwaters all the way down to the Gulf of Mexico Full-color vintage and modern photos and illustrations of past and present America, in a slim, portable guide excerpted from Road Trip USA Roadside curiosities and detours revealing the personalities, history, and unique character of the small towns and thriving cities along the route Expert advice from road warrior Jamie Jensen, who has zoomed along nearly 400,000 miles of highway in search of the perfect road trip Road Trip USA: Great River Road is so full of the beauty of the American road, why wait to start your next adventure? Hit the Road!
Download or read book Lost America The Abandoned Roadside West written by Troy Paiva and published by . This book was released on with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunningly photographed examination of the roadside icons that dot America's landscape. Lost America celebrates the boom-to-bust towns, aircraft bone yards, and filling stations of days past that were sacrificed at the altars of speed and technology and relegated to windswept desert plains and abandoned fields. The eye-catching and memorable photography is complemented with a succinct text history that details the rise and fall of each subject. The result is an impressive tour of an America still standing, yet largely forgotten.
Download or read book Roadside Attractions Coloring Book written by Steven James Petruccio and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-05-17 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Venture slightly off the beaten path to color 30 quirky sites, including Georgia's giant peanut, the Golden Driller in Oklahoma, Cadillac Ranch in Texas, and other kooky spots.
Download or read book Book of Field Roadside written by John Eastman and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2003-02-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to plant life in open dryland habitats. Fascinating fact and folklore. Detailed, beautiful drawings.
Download or read book Roadside Relics written by Will Shiers and published by Motorbooks International. This book was released on 2010-11-06 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abandoned junk to some, the rusty old steel shells of vehicles are treasures to others, holding memories of a bygone era, or the promise of a pristinely restored, radically customized automobile. Automotive photographer Will Shiers has captured these dreams on film for over ten years, and this volume collects his images between two covers for the first time. Here are the beautiful husks Shiers has found in the United States fields and barns, shops, and salvage yards across States. Divided into five categoriesGeneral Motors, Ford, Chrysler, Independents, and Special Vehiclesthese wrecks and relics from 1910 to the 1970s come equipped with all the relevant information: history, model, location. The most comprehensive and beautifully photographed collection of abandoned cars ever published, this volume preserves for all time the exquisite skeletons of American automotive might.
Download or read book Addicted to Americana written by Charles Phoenix and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raised on a used-car lot, Charles Phoenix was destined to become the Ambassador of Americana. The photo collector, food crafter, and field tripper is famed for his hilarious live show performances and "theme park" tour of downtown Los Angeles. This riotously colorful book, replete with Charles's collection of vintage Kodachrome slides, celebrates his lifelong quest to unearth the best of classic and kitschy American life and style. Charles Phoenix is a showman, tour guide, food crafter, and author known for his live comedy slide-show performances, madcap test-kitchen videos, field-trip-style adventure tours, and colorful books. The self-proclaimed "vintage culture vulture" has appeared on Martha Stewart, The Queen Latifah Show and Cake Wars, been profiled in The Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times, and been a guest on NPR's The Splendid Table.
