Road Trip: Roadside America, From Custard's Last Stand to the Wigwam Restaurant [Paperback]

A loving tribute to American roadside and advertising architecture from a lifelong enthusiast with a unique collection of photography.

With a focus on vernacular roadside architecture built between 1920 and the late 1960s,Road Tripis a time capsule of an extraordinary era and its roadside buildings, restaurants, gas stations, motels, and places of amusement, most of which are now long since gone. Armed with a Nikon F, the architectural historian [Richard Longstreth] shot them all, coast-to-coast, on Kodachrome film for slides, through the 1970s and into the mid-1980s. The200 imagesin his book arerich in color- and innostalgiaand wonder that will beckon readers of all ages.
-Architects and Artisans

From hamburger joints to drive-ins, this is an entertaining and, in its own way, sad trip down memory's blacktop lane.  
-The Chicago TribuneRichard Longstrethis a professor at George Washington University, where he directs the program in historic preservation, and is the author of numerous books and articles.CN