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  Roadside America http://www.roadsideamerica.com/
Travel guide to offbeat attractions, tourist traps, weird vacations, and roadtrips. Includes tourism news.
  Society for Commercial Archeology http://www.sca-roadside.org/
SCA is devoted to the study and preservation of American 20th-century roadside architecture.
  Diner City http://www.dinercity.com
Online directory of roadside architecture featuring photos of classic diners, motels, gas stations, route 66, googie coffee shops, and highway history
  Roadside Peek http://www.roadsidepeek.com/
A tour of 1950s roadside signage and buildings. Includes sections on the futuristic Googie style and its Polynesian-influenced cousin - the Tiki look.
  Lost America Night Photography http://www.lostamerica.com/
A collection of night photography by Troy Paiva of the abandoned roadside west - buildings, signs, vehicles and scrapyards.
  Roadside Architecture http://www.agilitynut.com/roadside.html
Debra Jane's listings with photographs of historical eateries, giant structures, lodging, miniature golf, advertisement signs, and gas stations across the USA. Listed by category and by state.
  Motel Americana http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/wooda/motel/
A celebration of a fading part of Americana: the motel.
  American Diner Museum http://www.americandinermuseum.org
A non-profit organization established in 1996 to recognize the diner's cultural and historical significance as well as its national importance.
  Lincoln Highway Heritage Corridor http://www.lhhc.org
Aims to identify, conserve, promote, and interpret the cultural, historical, natural, recreational, and economic resources along the historic Lincoln Highway in Pennsylvania.
  American Highway Project http://www.highwayproject.org/
Uses photography to document vanishing Americana such as motels, billboards, service stations, highway signs, tourist attractions, drive-in theatres and diners. Site also includes news.
  The American Roadside http://www.theamericanroadside.com
Includes photographs, news, memories and musings on diners, drive-ins, motels, cafes and other remnants of the American roadside. Members may create their own photograph galleries.
  America's Landmark: Under the Orange Roof http://www.orangeroof.org/
Unofficial site documenting former and current Howard Johnson's restaurants and motels.
  HoJoLand http://hojoland.homestead.com/
Tribute site to Howard Johnson's Restaurants. Includes history and directory of existing locations.
  Roadside Online http://www.btwmagazine.com/
Magazine with news articles about related features. Online version offers a weblog.
  RoadsideFans http://www.roadsidefans.com
Glenn Wells tours roadside diners and charts the rise and fall of Howard Johnson's restaurant chain. Includes an e-mail discussion group.
  Minnesota's Roadside Architecture http://www.mnhs.org/places/other/roadside/
David W. Nystuen's project to photograph all the roadside attractions in the state.
  Back On Tack http://www.gethep.net/road/
A collection of roadside attractions, road art and diners. Self-confessed tackaholic Steve takes a historical and humorous look at the culture of roadside kitsch.
  Judy's Diner Place http://www.geocities.com/jagdinerplace/
A personal tribute to the American diner, with exterior and interior photographs.
  Blue Roof Chasers http://www.geocities.com/pangaeascape/
Dedicated to the photographic preservation of the Stuckey's architectural legacy.
  NY Roadside http://webnow.com/nyroadside
A gallery of expandable thumbnail photographs of the vernacular roadside attractions of New York State highways.
  Yahoo! Groups -- AmericanDinerMuseum http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AmericanDinerMuseum/
E-mail discussion group about the diner and its new museum.
  Commercial Archaeology http://members.tripod.com/~RWUHP/ca/
Aaron Marcavitch takes a scholarly look at amuseument parks, diners, drive-ins, gas stations, motels and hotels.

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