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?

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Windows to the Vernacular

Collage of vintage diner matchbooks from Roadside Art: Diner art from matchbook covers
Little Grills

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The Gyros Project

Margaret's Grocery
Visit environments

 

Vintage Please Mr. Balch sign of a long dog on a long barn in Enfield, CT
See the signs

 

Elephant ears sign from a fair booth
Fill up on junk

 

Ruined motel from Mississippi
Explore ruins

 

Mean and Lean Disco sign and building, Clarksdale, MS
View vistas large and small

 

Vintage postcard of Wade Reid Motel
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