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Roadside Architecture: Books

Reference Books

Architectural record. Motels, hotels, restaurants, and bars.
Call Number: CL.STACK NA7840 .A7 1953
Hotel, motel by Giampiero Aloi
Call Number: CL.STACK NA7800 .A44

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Motels by Geoffrey Harold Baker
Call Number: CL.STACK NA7840 .B3 1955

Googie and design

Architecture of the Sun by Thomas S. Hines
Call Number: NA735.L55 H56 2010
California Crazy and Beyond by Jim Heimann
Call Number: NA730.C2 H4 2001
Googie: fifties coffee shop architecture by Alan Hess
Call Number: NA 7856 .H47 1986
Googie Redux: ultramodern roadside architecture by Alan Hess
Call Number: NA7856 .H47 2004
Populuxe by Thomas Hine
Call Number: NK 1404 .H54 1986

Roadside

New England Roadside Delights by Will Anderson
Call Number: NA 7857 .A11 A5 1989

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Roadside America by Jim Heimann (Editor); John Margolies (Photographer); Phil Patton; C. Ford Peatross
Call Number: NA6212 .M37 2010
Roadside America by Jan Jennings (Editor)
Call Number: HE 5623 .R62 1990
Road Trip by Richard Longstreth
Call Number: NA7856 .L66 2015
Signs, Streets, and Storefronts by Martin M. Treu
Call Number: HF5841 .T74 2012
Vacant Eden by Abigail Gumbiner; Carol Hayden
Call Number: TX909 .G86 1997

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Diners and restaurants

The American Diner by Michael Karl Witzel
Call Number: NA7855 .W57 W58 1999
American Diner by Richard J. Gutman
Call Number: NA7855 .G87 1993
Diners by John Baeder
Call Number: NA7855 .B34 1995
Diners by Gerd Kittel; Richard Snow (Foreword by)
Call Number: NA7855 .K58 1998
Diners of the North Shore by Gary Thomas
Call Number: NA7857.M3 T56 2002
Hometown Diners by Robert O. Williams; Randolph Garbin (Foreword by)
Call Number: NA7855 .W47 W55 1999
Orange Roofs, Golden Arches by Philip Langdon
Call Number: NA 7855 .L36 1986

Motels

Americans on the Road by Warren J. Belasco
Call Number: GV1021 .B37 1997
Gas, Food and Lodging by John Baeder
Call Number: TX 909 .B24 1982
Home Away from Home by John Margolies
Call Number: TX 909 .M319 1995
The Motel in America by John A. Jakle; Keith A. Sculle; Jefferson S. Rogers
Call Number: TX 909 .J35 1996

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Drive-ins

The American Drive-In Movie Theater by Don Sanders; Susan Sanders
Call Number: PN1993.5.U6 S36 2003
Car Hops and Curb Service by Jim Heimann
Call Number: TX 945 .H45 1996

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The Drive-In, the Supermarket, and the Transformation of Commercial Space in Los Angeles, 1914-1941 by Richard Longstreth
Call Number: HF5429.5.L7 L663 1999

Gas stations

"Fill'er Up" by Daniel I. Vieyra
Call Number: TL 153 .V53
American Gas Station by Michael K. Witzel
Call Number: TL153 .W57 1992

ISBN: 0879385944
The Gas Station in America by John A. Jakle; Keith A. Sculle
Call Number: TL 153 .J27 1994

In off-site storage - available by request.
Pump and Circumstance by John Margolies
Call Number: TL 153 .M36 1993

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Roadside Memories by Todd P. Helms; Chip Flohe
Call Number: TL153 .H45 1997

Route 66

Along Route 66 by Quinta Scott
Call Number: NA725 .S39 2000
New Mexico Route 66 on Tour by Don J. Usner; Elmo Baca (Foreword by)
Call Number: HE356.N6 U75 2001
Route 66 by Arthur Krim; Denis Wood (Editor)
Call Number: HE356.U55 K75 2005
Route 66 Backroads by Jim Hinckley; Kerrick James (Photographer); Rick Bowers (Photographer); Nora Bowers (Photographer); James Hinckley (Text by)
Call Number: F595.3 .H56 2008

Parks and Visitor Centers

Grand Teton by Edward Riddell; Bohlin Cywinski Jackson (Artist); Harvey Kaiser (Text by); Tom Kundig
Call Number: NA4510.V5 B64 2009
Mission 66 by Ethan Carr
Call Number: SB486.F34 C37 2007
Mission 66 Visitor Centers by Sarah Allaback
Call Number: NA4510.V5 A44 2000

BAC Theses

Accomodation(s) : a motel by Christopher Puzio
Call Number: BAC THESIS 1066
Mimetic architecture : surviving off the highways by Shanna Buechler
Call Number: BAC THESIS 2604
Mt. Monadnock visitor center and inn by Carolyn Caldwell
Call Number: BAC THESIS 389
Roadside diner and information free zone by David J. Wells
Call Number: BAC THESIS 1077

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