This blog is devoted to old fashioned American roadside attractions... the wonderfully big, bizarre, crazy, wacky, quirky, weird, funny, unique and mundane sites you see travelling cross-country by car in the USA, where getting there really is all the fun!
SoCal Mini-Trip
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After slogging thru all those website updates, it was high time to get out
and about. I had planned to take this Presidents’ three-day weekend for a
San Di...
Tim’s Diner of Leominster, Mass.
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One of my very favorite diners Tim’s Diner, Water Street in Leominster,
Mass. A circa 1950s photo showing the diner with the original name of
Roy’sDiner on...
Salt Springs – "A Magical Place Forever"?
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My favorite memory of Salt Springs in the Ocala National Forest is when I
camped there with my high school soccer coach and his son, who was my
teammate...
Kingstown Inn Smorgasbord
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*Kingstown Inn*
- *Smorgasbord every Sunday 5 ;00 to 9:00 P M. Fifty or more specially
prepared delicacies.*
- *Located on the Boston Post Road,...
Not tricks
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As you may or may not know, Lindsay and I have hit a bit of a rough patch.
Marry me. I’m afraid I just blue myself. It’s called ‘taking advantage.’
It’s wh...
Roadside Texas
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Good Luck Oil station, 2631 Ross Avenue, Dallas.
Photo taken in 1982 by Leta Patterson.
Holiday Inn, 10319 South Main Street, Houston.
Seahorse Motel, Galv...
10 years ago
PASS-A-GRILLE
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Old Florida is mostly alive and well in the little historic district of St.
Petersburg known as Pass-a-Grille. Pass-a-Grille begins …
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7 comments:
You might need risque towels when you leave the "Best Bang For Your Buck"
This one made me smile.
http://davosdavos.blogspot.com/2009/07/butt-street.html
Great collection!
My best sign used to be on my dorm door, although I still have it: "I like poetry, long walks on the beach, and poking dead things with a stick."
Signs like this always provoke wonder in me. Thanks for documenting this stuff.
reminds me of that "signs" song from way back!
I'd recognize that Hilltop Steakhouse sign anywhere...yum!
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