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
The Angkor Temples
Creative Denver
Roadside Indiana
Grotto of the Redemption
John Baeder
The Art of Street Food
Some Milwaukee Architecture
Tiny Design
Downstate Beauties
Downtown Deco
Red City San Diego
Birmingham, Alabama
Vintage Matchbooks
Jacksonville Attractions
Fabulous Vistas
John Margolies, Roadside America
Architectural Miniatures
County Fairs
Tour the Western Avenue
and Vicinity Gallery
New York City, 1981
The Lake
The Mansards
The Angels
100 Best Signs
Little Grills
The Gyros Project
Visit environments
See the signs
Fill up on junk
Explore ruins
View vistas large and small
Motels!
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.
Miscellaneous interesting images