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- Regional/ North America/ United States/ Arts and Entertainment/ Architecture/ Periods and Styles/ Googie@ (6)
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- American Diner Museum - A non-profit organization established in 1996 to recognize the diner's cultural and historical significance as well as its national importance.
www.dinermuseum.org
- Back On Tack - A collection of roadside attractions, road art and diners. Self-confessed tackaholic Steve takes a historical and humorous look at the culture of roadside kitsch.
www.gethep.net/road
- Commercial Archaeology - Aaron Marcavitch takes a scholarly look at amuseument parks, diners, drive-ins, gas stations, motels and hotels.
members.tripod.com/~RWUHP/ca
- Diner City - Online directory of roadside architecture featuring photos of classic diners, motels, gas stations, route 66, googie coffee shops, and highway history
www.dinercity.com
- Drive-ins.com - Searchable database of drive-in theatres and their history. Includes photographs, press, commentary, links.
www.drive-ins.com
- Lincoln Highway Heritage Corridor - Aims to identify, conserve, promote, and interpret the cultural, historical, natural, recreational, and economic resources along the historic Lincoln Highway in Pennsylvania.
www.lhhc.org
- Lost America Night Photography - A collection of night photography by Troy Paiva of the abandoned roadside west - buildings, signs, vehicles and scrapyards.
www.lostamerica.com/lostframe.html
- Lost Nevada - The glitsy facade of Nevadas smoky past of hard liquor, neon and lounge acts: motel and casino frontage and signage in Reno and Las Vegas.
www.lostnevada.com
- Minnesota's Roadside Architecture - David W. Nystuen's project to photograph all the roadside attractions in the state.
www.mnhs.org/places/other/roadside
- Motel Americana - A celebration of a fading part of Americana: the motel.
www.sjsu.edu/faculty/wooda/motel.html
- Roadside America - Travel guide to offbeat attractions, tourist traps, weird vacations, and roadtrips. Includes tourism news.
www.roadsideamerica.com
- Roadside Magazine - Travel America's back roads and main streets to find genuine diners and other unique attractions.
www.roadsidemagazine.com
- Roadside Peek - A tour of 1950s roadside signage and buildings. Includes sections on the futuristic Googie style and its polynesian-influenced cousin - the Tiki look.
www.roadsidepeek.com
- Society for Commercial Archeology - SCA is devoted to the study and preservation of American 20th-century roadside architecture.
www.sca-roadside.org
- Yahoo! Groups -- AmericanDinerMuseum - E-mail discussion group about the diner and its new museum.
groups.yahoo.com/group/AmericanDinerMuseum
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