Road Trip: Roadside America, from Custard's Last Stand to the Wigwam Restaurant

by Richard Longstreth and Richard W. Longstreth

Expectation, anticipation, discovery--each of these is a facet of an American institution, the road trip. With a focus on vernacular roadside architecture built between 1920 and the late 1960s, the golden age of the American road, Road Trip is a time capsule, a snapshot taken primarily in the early 1970s, of an extraordinary era and its roadside buildings, restaurants, gas stations, motels, and places of amusement, most of which are now long since...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0789327619
• ISBN13: 9780789327611
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: Universe Publishing(NY)
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.8" x 9.5"