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Roadside Art Online

Is it any surprise that so much of America's great art can be seen from the window of a passing car, in the melange of shop signs, billboards and cheesy buildings, in the personal monuments people make in their gardens and empty lots, on the makeshift, lean-to margins where artistic preconceptions and ambitions don't exist?

Read more: Windows to the Vernacular

Motel Matches
Roadside art: Motel Matches
100 Best Signs
Roadside art: 100 Favorite Roadside Signs
Little Grills
Roadside art: Diner art from matchbook covers

County Fairs
Roadside art: County Fairs
New York City, 1981
Roadside art: County Fairs
Tour the Western Avenue and Vicinity Gallery
Strong stuff 11K JPGBeauty, Mr. Bulb 8K JPG

The Mansards
The Mansard

The Gyros Project
Gryos Sampler - 48K Animated GIF Gryos Sampler - 48K Animated GIF Gryos Sampler - 48K Animated GIF Gryos Sampler - 48K Animated GIF Gryos Sampler - 48K Animated GIF Gryos Sampler - 48K Animated GIF

Visit environments
Tour of environment 9K JPG

See the signs
Please Mr. Balch

Fill up on junk
Elephant ears 5K JPG

Explore ruins
6K JPG of motel ruins

View vistas large and small
Mean and Lean 5K JPG

Motels!
Wade Reid Motel

The Grog N Groc Hall of Fame
Store names can be roadside literature in the same way that their signs can be roadside art. Here's a collection of qualifying entries.

linkRoadside connections: Interesting links
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