Roadside

• Arts: Architecture: Building Types: Iconic  (10)
• Recreation: Roads and Highways: North America: United States  (434)
• Society: History: By Topic: Social History: Pop Culture  (55)

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.

American Highway Project - Uses photography to document vanishing Americana such as motels, billboards, service stations, highway signs, tourist attractions, drive-in theatres and diners. Site also includes news.

The American Roadside - Includes photographs, news, memories and musings on diners, drive-ins, motels, cafes and other remnants of the American roadside. Members may create their own photograph galleries.

America's Landmark: Under the Orange Roof - Unofficial site documenting former and current Howard Johnson's restaurants and motels.

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.

Blue Roof Chasers - Dedicated to the photographic preservation of the Stuckey's architectural legacy.

Commercial Archaeology - Aaron Marcavitch takes a scholarly look at amuseument parks, diners, drive-ins, gas stations, motels and hotels.

Diner City - Online directory of roadside architecture featuring photos of classic diners, motels, gas stations, route 66, googie coffee shops, and highway history

HoJoLand - Tribute site to Howard Johnson's Restaurants. Includes history and directory of existing locations.

Judy's Diner Place - A personal tribute to the American diner, with exterior and interior photographs.

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.

Lost America Night Photography - A collection of night photography by Troy Paiva of the abandoned roadside west - buildings, signs, vehicles and scrapyards.

Minnesota's Roadside Architecture - David W. Nystuen's project to photograph all the roadside attractions in the state.

Motel Americana - A celebration of a fading part of Americana: the motel.

NY Roadside - A gallery of expandable thumbnail photographs of the vernacular roadside attractions of New York State highways.

Roadside America - Travel guide to offbeat attractions, tourist traps, weird vacations, and roadtrips. Includes tourism news.

Roadside Architecture - Debra Jane's listings with photographs of historical eateries, giant structures, lodging, miniature golf, advertisement signs, and gas stations across the USA. Listed by category and by state.

Roadside Online - Magazine with news articles about related features. Online version offers a weblog.

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.

RoadsideFans - Glenn Wells tours roadside diners and charts the rise and fall of Howard Johnson's restaurant chain. Includes an e-mail discussion group.

Society for Commercial Archeology - SCA is devoted to the study and preservation of American 20th-century roadside architecture.

Yahoo! Groups -- AmericanDinerMuseum - E-mail discussion group about the diner and its new museum.