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Americana

Author : Michael Karl Witzel
Publisher : Lowe & B. Hould Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780681626836
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (268 download)

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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.

Roadside Memories

Author : Todd Helms
Publisher : Schiffer Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780764302787
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book Roadside Memories written by Todd Helms and published by Schiffer Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pictorial history of the gasoline station in the United States and details about many of the companies which punctuated the roadsides with their buildings, including the Standard Oil, Cities, Mobil, Phillips, Gulf, Shell, Texaco, and Conoco.

Memories Left by the Roadside

Author : Paul Leestma
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1524685003
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (246 download)

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Download or read book Memories Left by the Roadside written by Paul Leestma and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2017-03-22 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a follow up to his well received first poetry book My Times in Rhymes, Paul goes beyond his own personal experiences to add a whole new dimension to his poems. He combines his thoughts and his life experiences with that of others to creaate a new outlook on love, life and the world around us.

Roadside Crosses in Contemporary Memorial Culture

Author : Holly J. Everett
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1574411500
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Roadside Crosses in Contemporary Memorial Culture written by Holly J. Everett and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is a study of roadside crosses in which the author presents the history of these unique commemoratives and their relationship to contemporary memorial culture.

Remembering Roadside America

Author : John A. Jakle
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 1572338334
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (723 download)

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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.

Roadside Relics

Author : Will Shiers
Publisher : Motorbooks International
ISBN 13 : 0760339848
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (63 download)

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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.

Dixie before Disney

Author : Tim Hollis
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781617033742
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (337 download)

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Download or read book Dixie before Disney written by Tim Hollis and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Deathscapes

Author : James D. Sidaway
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317154398
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Deathscapes written by James D. Sidaway and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death is at once a universal and everyday, but also an extraordinary experience in the lives of those affected. Death and bereavement are thereby intensified at (and frequently contained within) certain sites and regulated spaces, such as the hospital, the cemetery and the mortuary. However, death also affects and unfolds in many other spaces: the home, public spaces and places of worship, sites of accident, tragedy and violence. Such spaces, or Deathscapes, are intensely private and personal places, while often simultaneously being shared, collective, sites of experience and remembrance; each place mediated through the intersections of emotion, body, belief, culture, society and the state. Bringing together geographers, sociologists, anthropologists, cultural studies academics and historians among others, this book focuses on the relationships between space/place and death/ bereavement in 'western' societies. Addressing three broad themes: the place of death; the place of final disposition; and spaces of remembrance and representation, the chapters reflect a variety of scales ranging from the mapping of bereavement on the individual or in private domestic space, through to sites of accident, battle, burial, cremation and remembrance in public space. The book also examines social and cultural changes in death and bereavement practices, including personalisation and secularisation. Other social trends are addressed by chapters on green and garden burial, negotiating emotion in public/ private space, remembrance of violence and disaster, and virtual space. A meshing of material and 'more-than-representational' approaches consider the nature, culture, economy and politics of Deathscapes - what are in effect some of the most significant places in human society.

Just Off Highway 71

Author : John W Crawford
Publisher : Austin Macauley
ISBN 13 : 9781647504656
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Just Off Highway 71 written by John W Crawford and published by Austin Macauley. This book was released on 2021-05-28 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a reader that loves a bit of nostalgia, this book will provide much. Scenes of childhood adventures, teenage musings, and adult events all merge into various rhymed forms, from quatrains to sonnets. For those who enjoy a look at the past as well as the vision of the future, this volume serves well.

Roadside Americans

Author : Jack Reid
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469655012
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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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.

Roadside Giants

Author : Brian Butko
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 9780811732284
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (322 download)

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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!

Roadside Assistance

Author : Amy Clipston
Publisher : HarperChristian + ORM
ISBN 13 : 0310577861
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Roadside Assistance written by Amy Clipston and published by HarperChristian + ORM. This book was released on 2011-04-19 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emily Curtis is used to dealing with her problems while under the hood of an old Chevy, but when her mom dies, Emily’s world seems shaken beyond repair. Driven from home by hospital bills they can’t pay, Emily and her dad move in with his wealthy sister, who intends to make her niece more feminine—in other words, just like Whitney, Emily’s perfect cousin. But when Emily hears the engine of a 1970 Dodge Challenger, and sees the cute gearhead, Zander, next door, things seem to be looking up. But even working alongside Zander can’t completely fix the hole in Emily’s life. Ever since her mom died, Emily hasn’t been able to pray, and no one—not even Zander—seems to understand. But sometimes the help you need can come from the person you least expect.

Roadside Memories

Author : Susan Hart-Hester
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book Roadside Memories written by Susan Hart-Hester and published by . This book was released on 2024-05-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roadside Memories is a book of reflections on the roads traveled throughout my lifetime and is designed to encourage the reader to reflect on their own life journey. Instilled within the reflective memories is a desire to bring the readers a clearer understanding of the power of God's mercy and grace within our lives.

Encounters with the World's Religions

Author : Brad Karelius
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498200028
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (982 download)

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Download or read book Encounters with the World's Religions written by Brad Karelius and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2015-05-15 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A spectacular stretch of earth, the Eastern Sierra region of California reveals volcanic reefs, desert sand dunes, majestic mountains, and snow-fed lakes and rivers. Drawing on forty years of college teaching on the world's religions, Professor Brad Karelius is your guide, uncovering deep spiritual dimensions in this achingly beautiful place. This book shares crystallizations of religious wisdom collected through the ages, and finely tuned descriptions of holy sites, which you may visit, that will draw you deeper in your personal encounters with world spiritualities.

Grassroots Memorials

Author : Peter Jan Margry
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 0857451901
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (574 download)

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Download or read book Grassroots Memorials written by Peter Jan Margry and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grassroots memorials have become major areas of focus during times of trauma, danger, and social unrest. These improvised memorial assemblages continue to display new and more dynamic ways of representing collective and individual identities and in doing so reveal the steps that shape the national memories of those who struggle to come to terms with traumatic loss. This volume focuses on the hybrid quality of these temporary memorials as both monuments of mourning and as focal points for protest and expression of discontent. The broad range of case studies in this volume include anti-mafia shrines, Theo van Gogh’s memorial, September 11th memorials, March 11th shrines in Madrid, and Carlo Giuliani memorials in Genoa.

Death, Memory, and Space

Author : Deborah Lynn Wagner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Death, Memory, and Space written by Deborah Lynn Wagner and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Route 66

Author : Publications International Ltd.
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781645582571
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (825 download)

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Download or read book Route 66 written by Publications International Ltd. and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-15 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you ready for a nostalgic ride along America's Mother Road? Route 66 takes you through eight states, stopping along the way to discover roadsidecuriosities, museums, ruins, art, renovated service stations, and of course some of the retro diners and motels that keep the spirit of the route alive. Full-color photos of attractions past and present bring the route to life. Includes a historical overview for each state. Every section includes notable side trips and stopping points. Hardcover, 144 pages. This beautifully-produced book is a great addition for collectors of Route 66 memorabilia!