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Book Synopsis The New Roadside America by : Doug Kirby
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 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.
Book Synopsis Remembering Roadside America by : John A. Jakle
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 Roadside Americans written by Jack Reid and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2020-02-14 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between the Great Depression and the mid-1970s, hitchhikers were a common sight for motorists, as American service members, students, and adventurers sought out the romance of the road in droves. Beats, hippies, feminists, and civil rights and antiwar activists saw "thumb tripping" as a vehicle for liberation, living out the counterculture's rejection of traditional values. Yet by the time Ronald Reagan, a former hitchhiker himself, was in the White House, the youthful faces on the road chasing the ghost of Jack Kerouac were largely gone—along with sympathetic portrayals of the practice in state legislatures and the media. In Roadside Americans, Jack Reid traces the rise and fall of hitchhiking, offering vivid accounts of life on the road and how the act of soliciting rides from strangers, and the attitude toward hitchhikers in American society, evolved over time in synch with broader economic, political, and cultural shifts. In doing so, Reid offers insight into significant changes in the United States amid the decline of liberalism and the rise of the Reagan Era.
Book Synopsis Architektonische Relikte Einer Vergangenen Epoche by : John Margolies
Download or read book Architektonische Relikte Einer Vergangenen Epoche written by John Margolies and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains nearly four hundred color photographs of unique signs, artifacts, and buildings discovered by the author while traveling the roads of America for some thirty years.
Book Synopsis Roadside Americana by : Eric Peterson
Download or read book Roadside Americana written by Eric Peterson and published by . This book was released on 2008-09-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roadside Americana takes you on an armchair tour of some of the gaudiest, kitschiest, and weirdest wonders in the United States and Canada. The book explains the history of the roadside attraction and gives you an up-close look at hundreds of fascinating examples, including: • Solomon's Castle in Ona, Florida, a shiny 10,000-square-foot private residence and bed and breakfast constructed from recycled materials in the style of a mediaeval castle • W'eel, a 40-foot turtle in Dunseith, North Dakota, made from 2,000 tire rims • The Mitchell Corn Palace, a turreted "palace" in Mitchell, South Dakota, decorated with thousands of bushels of corn and other grains • The world's largest red wagon, Spokane Washington's 12-foot-high, 27-foot-long Radio Flyer that can hold 300 children • Elbe, Washington's Hobo Inn, a collection of seven old cabooses converted into motel rooms If you want to get a good look at the crazy and zany side of America, Roadside Americana is the perfect book for you.
Book Synopsis Lost America : The Abandoned Roadside West by : Troy Paiva
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.
Book Synopsis Totally Wacky Roadside Attractions by : Pamela Chanko
Download or read book Totally Wacky Roadside Attractions written by Pamela Chanko and published by Children's Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Introduces the reader to wacky roadside attractions"--
Book Synopsis Classic Roadside Americana by : Michael Karl Witzel
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.
Book Synopsis Roadside Attractions by : John Wojtowicz
Download or read book Roadside Attractions written by John Wojtowicz and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Giant fiberglass statues of Paul Bunyan. Enormous balls of twine. A hiking trail atop a manmade mountain of contained nuclear waste. This is the landscape of an American oddities roadtrip, and it is also the poetic muse for John Wojtowicz, a clinical social worker, adjunct professor, and outdoorsman. Where other people may see a photo opportunity, John sees deeper truths and rolls them out in poems that are entertaining, profound, and well-crafted. In this edition, the poems are richly illustrated with color images of the attractions he describes.
Book Synopsis Roadside Attractions by : Brian Butko
Download or read book Roadside Attractions written by Brian Butko and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hit the open road for fun and wackiness as the Butkos visit offbeat attractions from coast to coast--dinosaur parks, miniature golf courses, populuxe motels, vintage amusement arcades, classic diners illuminated in neon, and even the world's largest ball of twine. More than fifty fellow authors and artists offer stories about their favorite attractions or recall memorable trips. Visitor information is included to help plan quick visits or an entire road trip.
Book Synopsis A Guide to the South's Quirkiest Roadside Attractions by : Kelly Kazek
Download or read book A Guide to the South's Quirkiest Roadside Attractions written by Kelly Kazek and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2022-10-03 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you're in Nashville or Austin or Mobile and you have the urge to see something strange, connoisseur of the offbeat Kelly Kazek has you covered. Cruise the South, from Louisville's enormous collection of the world's largest things to Miami's Burger Museum to Odessa's Stonehenge replica. If you're around Hot Springs, Arkansas, you might want to bop into the Alligator Farm and Petting Zoo to see where Babe Ruth's first five-hundred-foot homer came crashing down. And if you're looking to make contact with the unusual, why not visit the UFO Welcome Center in Bowman, South Carolina? Wherever you are in the South, there's something strange or stupendous nearby, and this catalogue of noteworthy curiosities and significant landmarks makes sure you don't miss a thing.
Download or read book Roadside Giants written by Brian Butko and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2005-09-27 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!
Book Synopsis Roadside Florida by : Peter Genovese
Download or read book Roadside Florida written by Peter Genovese and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2006-10-09 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visit Goofy Golf, Florida's coolest miniature golf course. Explore Gatorama, home to the state's largest captive croc, Goliath. See Orange World, the 62-foot-tall orange-shaped fruit stand. The author of Roadside New Jersey goes south to explore the outrageous roadside attractions that have come to define the Sunshine State in this fun, full-color book. Experience the best Florida has to offer.
Book Synopsis ABC Book of Early Americana by : Eric Sloane
Download or read book ABC Book of Early Americana written by Eric Sloane and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at implements, inventions, and everyday items from early American life as well as examining schoolhouses and classroom equipment.
