Roadside architecture

Buildings designed along the side of a roadway, for the servicing of the traveling public; may include diners, gas stations, and the like.

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Society for Commercial Archeology

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Jury comments: "Ibis project incorporates an historic form into a successful expression of roadside architecture where there is a signature element that is appropriate for a restaurant.

AIANH awards winners honored

The John Margolies archive of photographs of American roadside architecture is acknowledged as the most comprehensive study of this subject extant.

"Roadside America" - Photographs by John Margolies

Back in 2003, local preservationists thought the structure was worth saving because it was an early symbol of America's love affair with the automobile and that it was representative of the fast-disappearing early roadside architecture that it yielded.

Developer set to start building on unused lots in Main South

Liebs, Main Street to Miracle Mile: American Roadside Architecture (Boston MA, 1985); John Margolies, The End of the Road: Vanishing Highway Architecture in America (New York, 1981).

Challenging motoring functionalism: roadside memorials, heritage and history in Australia and New Zealand

Dog Bark Park artists Dennis Sullivan and Frances Conklin built Sweet Willy and Toby, his 12-foot tall beagle companion, as a tribute to roadside architecture popular in the early days of car vacations.

A guide to the most amazing hotels in the world

Without this contribution to roadside architecture these people would be languishing on the dole.

Rubbish jobs maybe, but they are still jobs

Do this from South to North late in the afternoon on a sunny day to catch the full effect of the light on the multi-colored signs and roadside architecture.