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?
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Windows to the Vernacular

Grotto of the Redemption

Roadside Indiana

John Baeder

The Art of Street Food

Milwaukee Architecture

Downstate Beauties

Downtown Deco

Vintage Matchbooks

Red City San Diego

Birmingham, Alabama

Jacksonville Attractions

Tiny Design

John Margolies

County Fairs

Architectural Miniatures

Fabulous Vistas

The Angels of Trinity Church

The Mansards






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.
















100 Best Signs
