| American Roadside, The |
| Photos, news, memories and musings on the great American Roadside experience. Members can post roadside photos for free. |
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| Bob Jagendorf - smugmug |
Bob is an amateur photograper based in NJ, he travels a lot for business and always has Minolta A2 at his side.
When I got this link, I spent about an hour looking through these great pictures. |
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| Digital City: Quirky Landmarks |
| A coast-to-coast guide to America's most unusual landmarks. |
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| Drive-ins: The Guide to Drive-in Movie Theatres |
| The Guide to Drive-in Movies is the Internet focalpoint for information relating to Drive-ins |
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| EccentricAmerica.com |
| Indispensable Guide to the Eccentric, Weird, Wacky, Bizarre Side of American Tourism and a Provocative Look at the Oddities of American Culture Run Amok. |
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| Futuro House - Home of the Future |
| Website dedicated to the Futuro House. Lots of photos and links to this type of house located across the USA and the world. |
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| Futuro-House.net |
| A UFO shaped house initially designed for use as a ski-cabin or holiday home. |
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| GiantLavaLamp.com |
 A project to build a giant 60 foot Lava Lamp in Soap Lake, WA. God speed Soap Lake! |
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| Googie Art |
| Diners & coffee shops of the 1950's & 60's from the archives of Armet & Davis. |
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| Interesting Ideas |
| Stuff from the cultural margins, from outsider and roadside art to Don Knotts and Ernie Bushmiller. |
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| Lendy's Web Page |
| A pictoral history of a 50's Big Boy restaurant featuring rooftop DJ's, Googie, and a glimpse of the way it once was. |
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| Liz and Frank Kitsch Tour U.S.A |
| Cool homepage with some of their favorite Roadside Oddities. Great pictures and write-up's on all the exhibits. |
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| Los Angeles Time Machines |
| Los Angeles restaurants and bars from the 30s, 40s, 50s and 60s (movie palaces, motel signs, and remants of Rt. 66 as well). |
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| Marsh's Free Museum in Long Beach WA |
Marshs Free Museum is in Long Beach WA. A really Cool place to visit. The home of Jake the Alligator Man a must see for anyone interested
in... Well interested such things. I like all of them!
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| Milk Bottle News |
| Pretty cool site on Milk Bottle Memorabilia. Includes a section on Huge Milk Bottles and Milk Bottle Shaped Buildings. |
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| Official Site Of Carhenge, The |
| Just north of Alliance Nebraska, along Highway 87, stands a replication of Stonehenge, England's ancient mystical alignment of stones that chart the sun and moon phases. Stonehenge stands alone on a plain in England. Carhenge, created from vintage American made automobiles, towers over the plains of Nebraska. |
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| OutdoorFlix.com: Roadside Gallery |
| An Online Museum of the weird and the wacky that can be found on your next Road Trip. |
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| Photo realistic paintings by James Kingneon |
| Photo realism paintings by James "Kingneon" Guçwa, renowned photorealism artist, featuring his book Signs of Art, a collection of American roadside neon paintings. |
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| Retro-Matic |
| Site featuring images of retro people, buildings, postcards, cars and signs. |
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| Road Trippin' USA |
| ROAD TRIPPIN U.S.A is a cyber postcard of the American Road and its culture of Nostalgia. |
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| Roadside America |
| Simply put, the Largest collection of Roadside oddities on the web! |
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| Roadside Architecture |
| Unique architecture and oddities from around the country. |
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| Roadside Gallery |
| A nostalgic look at the colorful Americana road signs and folk art quickly disappearing from America’s highways. |
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| Roadside Oddities |
| Some great photos of "Eccentric Canada". |
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| Roadside Online |
| Eat in diners. Ride trains. Shop on Main Street. Put a porch on your house. Live in a walkable community. |
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| Roadside Peek |
| Very cool site. Site includes Route 66, Muffler Men, Roadside Icons, Googie Architecture, Googie Signage, 50's Coffee Shops, Petrol Pumps, Wigwam Motels, Theater of Yesteryear, Ten Pin Alleys, Drive-in Theaters, Retro Car Washes and Bygone Retailers. A must see for people searching for Eccentric Americana. |
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| RoadTrip America |
| Regular updates from a group of people driving around the U.S. in a mobile home. Interesting sections include one on tall tales, and another on weird signs. |
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| Rocky Ridge Refuge |
Gassville, Arkansas is the home of Lurch, a watusi (African breed of bovine) with world record size horns. They weigh at least 200 pounds.
Ok, so not really a roadside oddity, but after clicking the link, I HAD to post this. |
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| Round America |
| Travels to all 50 states on two-lane roads writing a book about 'the places we go, the sights we see, the people we meet, and the pie we eat." On the first trip, Bill and Barbara Windsor traveled 29,000 miles, saw thousands of sights, and took over 14,000 photographs. Additions are made to the web site with each trip. |
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| SignalFan.com |
| Traffic and Railroad signals, signs, and other control devices galore!! If you have ever had even a passiing interest in these devices, come visit the site. |
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| SmallestMuseum.com |
 The home of the world's largest Apache Tear gemstone & Waterfall Avenue (five unique fountains made from recycled artifacts used by the working people of the world). |
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| Society for Commercial Archeology |
| Established in 1977, the SCA is the oldest national organization devoted to the buildings, artifacts, structures, signs, and symbols of the 20th-century commercial landscape. |
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| Starship Pegasus |
| The Starship Pegasus is a Family Entertainment Center located in Italy, Texas, designed to look like the Starship Enterprise sitting on the ground. |
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| Stuckeys.com |
A roadside icon since 1940, this site has a great trip down memory lane via their online photo gallery full of historical images and old magazine ads and even radio jingles.
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| Tiki Gardens Memorial Web Page, The |
| Dedicated to the memory of Tiki Gardens. A long lost Clearwater Florida roadside attraction. Come stroll a land of Tikis, beautiful wahinis, and visit Trader Fank's Restaurant while your at it! Contirbutions of info and omages from former employees, friends of the owners, and Tiki Luminaries such as Sven Kirsten author of the BOOK OF TIKI dot the memorials landscape. |
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| tikigardens.com |
| "A South Sea Island Paradise in Florida"- but now in memory only! Very kitschy place, giant tiki heads, tacky souvenirs. Closed in the late '80's and is now a county park. |
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| UCM Museum |
| This is a collection ( more than 3 is a collection) of the quirky-ist unusual minatures, diaoramas of Southern life by a most unusual man from the town of Abita Springs. Today they have a Bicycle Festival,. they have a room of Antique Bicycles, located in the House of Shards next to the BAss/Gator a strange fish that is half alligator.Oh., the BEST GIFT SHOP EVER |
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| Way Out In West Virginia |
| Way Out in West Virginia A Must-have Guide to the Oddities and Wonders of the Mountain State. |
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| Wickham Stone Park |
| Site created by Arlen Schibig to showcase the art of his grandfather E.T. Wickham, a folk artist/sculptor who created life-size concrete statues in Palmyra,TN. |
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| WigwamMotel.com |
| Built in 1949 the Wigwam Motel has become an icon of the historic Route 66 in Rialto California. Under new ownership, the Motel has recently gone through a total makeover, including improvements to both the buildings' interior and exterior as well as to the Motel's landscape. |
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| World's Largest Catsup Bottle, The |
| Official website and fanclub, dedicated to this wonderful oddity in Collinsville, Illinois. |
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| World's Largest documentary |
A documentary about small towns with BIG things.
World's Largest will be a one-hour documentary and is currently in production. Shooting will continue through 2004 and the film is expected to be finished in Early 2005. |
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| Yahoo! |
| Roadside Attractions Directory. |
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| Ye Olde Curiosity Shop |
One of the most unusual places you'll ever visit, in person or on the Internet, Ye Olde Curiosity Shop, since 1899!
Ye Olde Curiosity Shoppe is located on the waterfront in Seattle Washington, Sylvester the Mummy was featured on the Mummy Road Show in Jan 2003 which is a program on the National Geographic Channel.
Another must see if you are in the Great North West.
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