Remembering Roadside America Preserving the Recent Past as Landscape and Place

Name: Remembering Roadside America Preserving the Recent Past as Landscape and Place
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ISBN: 9781572338234

ISBN-10: 1572338237

ISBN-13: 9781572338234

Edition: 2011

Authors: John A. Jakle, Keith A. Sculle

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The use of cars and trucks over the past century has remade American geography—pushing big cities ever outward toward suburbanization, spurring the growth of some small towns while hastening the decline of others, and spawning a new kind of commercial landscape marked by gas stations, drive-in restaurants, motels, tourist attractions, and countless other retail entities that express our national love affair with the open road. By its very nature, this landscape is ever changing, indeed ephemeral. What is new quickly becomes old and is soon forgotten. In this absorbing book, John Jakle and Keith Sculle ponder how “Roadside America” might be remembered, especially since so little…

Book details

List price: $59.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
Publication date: 9/1/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 312
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments



The Journey Begins



Observing Roadside America



Learning from Roadside America



Preserving Roads and Roadsides



Historical Museums and Roadside America



Experiencing the Past as Landscape and Place



The Road Continues


Appendix


Notes


Index