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Roadside Architecture Links

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This is a highly personal list of roadside websites and books. If you think I'm missing some great ones, please let me know. Many of these websites have link lists of their own so poking around a bit should lead you to lots of other interesting stuff.

General
Back on Tack
Hidden America
Roadside America
Roadside Artlink
Roadside Fans
Roadside Peek
Roadside Online
Roadtrip America
RoadTrip USA
Society for Commercial Archaeology
World's Largest: A Documentary
World's Largest Things
Vintage Roadside
Vintage Roadside Postcards

Specific
Defunct Amusement Parks
Infiltration
Roadtrip '62
Statues & Monuments
Supermarkets: 1, 2
Yesterland (defunct Disneyland attractions)

Blogs
The American Roadside
Diner Hotline
Eccentric Roadside
Lincoln Highway News
The Lope
Roadside Online
Route 66 News

By Location
Hollywood History and Postcards (CA)
L.A. Time Machines (CA)
L.A. Conservancy (CA)
L.A. Conservancy’s Modern Committee (CA)
Wilshire Blvd. (CA)
Visual Ephemera (FL)
Florida's Lost Tourist Attractions (FL)
Lost Indiana (IN)
Water Winter Wonderland (MI)
Minnesota Historical Society (MN)
Weird New Jersey (NJ)
Forgotten New York (NY)
Forgotten Ohio (OH)
Texas Twisted (TX)
Wisconsin-osity (WI)
Milwaukee Architecture (WI)

Books
America Off the Wall: West Coast, Kristan Lawson & Anneli S. Rufus, 1989
Architectural Follies in America, Gwyn Headley, 1996
California Crazy, Jim Heimann & Rip Georges, 1980
California Crazy and Beyond, Jim Heimann, 2001
The Colossus of Roads, Karal Ann Marling, 1984
Dixie Before Disney, Tim Hollis, 1999
The End of the Road, John Margolies, 1981
Fun Along the Road, John Margolies, 1998
Gas, Food, and Lodging, John Baeder, 1982
Going, Going, Gone: Vanishing Americana Essays, Susan Jonas & Marilyn Nissenson, 1998
The Great Good Places... and How they Get You Through the Day, Ray Oldenburg, 1990
Highway Hangouts, John Margolies, 1994
Hitting the Road: Art of the American Road Map, Douglas A. Yorke, Jr., John Margolies, Eric Baker, 1996
Home Away from Home, John Margolies, 1995
L.A. Bizarro, Anthony R. Lovett & Matt Maranian, 1997
L.A. Lost and Found, Sam Hall Kaplan, 1987
Lost America: The Abandoned Roadside West, Troy Paiva, 2003
Main Street to Miracle Mile, Chester H. Liebs, 1995
Mid-Atlantic Roadside Delights, Will Anderson, 1991
New England Roadside Delights, Will Anderson, 1989
New Jersey Curiosities, Peter Genovese, 2003
The New Roadside America, Mike Wilkins, Ken Smith & Doug Kirby, 1992
Roadside America, John Margolies, 2010
Roadside Americana, Eric Peterson, 2004
Roadside Attractions, Brian and Sarah Butko, 2007
Roadside Giants, Brian and Sarah Butko, 2005
Roadside New Jersey, Peter Genovese, 1994
Roadside Religion, Timothy K. Beal, 2005
Road Trip America, Andrew F. Wood, 2003
Road Trip USA, Jamie Jensen, 1999
The Theming of America, Mark Gottdiener, 1997
The Well-Built Elephant and Other Roadside Attractions, J.J.C. Andrews, 1984
Where Have You Gone, Starlite Café?, Will Anderson, 1998

The Curiosities Series (various states)
The Weird Series (various states)

Publications
American Road
Society for Commercial Archaeology Journal


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