Postcards from the Past Lane:
Ghosts of the Old Highways
Travelers Hotel Court, Maryville, Tennessee, 1947
Mount Severance Motor Court, Schroon Lake, New York, 1940's
Pure Village Cottages, Harrisonburg, Virginia, 1930's
Garland's Cabins & Gulf Station, Bartlett, New Hampshire, 1948
Hudson's Modern Courts, Bartlesville, Oklahoma, 1945
Stockholm Swedish Restaurant, Somerville, New Jersey, 1950
Greyhound Bus Depot, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1937
Dutch Mill Village Tourist Court & Esso Station, Glasgow, KY, 1946
Branding Iron Auto Lodge, Laramie, Wyoming, 1942
Dixie Diner, Baltimore, Maryland, 1940's
Doherty Motel, Clare, Michigan, 1937
Dutch Village Motel, York, Pennsylvania, 1930's
Rashkin's Little Falls Hotel, Mountaindale, New York, 1948
Park Lane Motel, Canon City, Colorado, 1940's
Farmington Tourist Court, Farmington, New Mexico, 1950
Travelers Motel, Covington, Virginia, 1950
Paradise Tourist Court, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1940's
L Motel, Flagstaff, Arizona, 1949
Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is possible to travel
across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything.
-- Charles Kuralt
The Cabin Court, Middleton, Wisconsin, 1940's
Brandt Motel, Peabody, Kansas, 1945
Highway through Swampscott, Massachusetts, 1938
Highway through Reno, Nevada, 1940's
Hays Court, Elizabethtown, Kentucky, 1942
Crescent Tourist Court, Laurel, Maryland, 1940's
Southland Restaurant, Lewisburg, Tennessee, 1940's
Highway 90, Biloxi, Mississippi, 1940
Greyhound Bus Depot & Taxi Stand, Dayton, Ohio, 1940's
The McCoy Motel, Goodlettsville, Tennessee, 1940's
Ingram Hotel Court, Cheraw, South Carolina, 1940's
White Elk Motor Court, Baltimore, Maryland, 1949
Checker Motel and Cabins, Great Falls, Montana, 1950's
"The Speedway," Washington, D. C., 1910
Pueblo Tourist Court, Amarillo, Texas, 1941
LINKS:

Motel Americana:  Postcards from the Road
Retro-Culture
Roadside Art Online
Diner City
Brian's Roadside Images
50 States in 50 Days
Road Food
Road Trip USA
Googie Architecture Online
Eccentric America
Highway Project:  Vanishing Highway Americana
American Sign Museum
Vintage Travel Postcards from New Mexico
Forgotten New York
Music:  Lost in the Fifties Tonight

Friday's Journal - Index
Friday's Journal Links
The Past Whispers - Home
Old New Orleans
...
...
Tell a friend about this page:
Bel-Air Motel, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1940