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Main Street.
A streetscape gathers many separate decisions into a single view. Shopfronts, upper windows, signs and gaps between buildings reveal the rhythm of a place without requiring a single spectacular landmark. Margolies’s Main Street photographs invite a slower kind of looking: read from one façade to the next, notice differences in scale, and follow where a sign interrupts the roofline. State and city filters allow neighboring views to be considered together.
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Diner (American and Korean food), Route 27, Columbus, Georgia
Miss Bellows Falls Diner, side view, Bellows Falls, Vermont
Stork Cafe, 3rd Street, Route 66, Winslow, Arizona
Highway Diner, Route 66, Winslow, Arizona
Diner, Pleasant Street, Fall River, Massachusetts
Wellsboro Diner, by dusk, Route 6, Wellsboro, Pennsylvania
Wellsboro Diner at day with neon, Route 6, Wellsboro, Pennsylvania
Scotty's Diner (1942), side view, Route 30, Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania
Modern Diner, diagonal front detail, Dexter Avenue, Pawtucket, Rhode Island
The Lunch Box, Cimarron Avenue, Colorado Springs, Colorado
Royal Diner, side view, Route 28, north of Kingston, New York
![Central Diner, Bank Street, Poughkeepsie [i.e. Peekskill], New York](https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/pnp/mrg/00100/00112r.jpg)
Central Diner, Bank Street, Poughkeepsie [i.e. Peekskill], New York
Elm Diner, Route 32, Kingston, New York
K & J Dairy, 11600 Livernois, Detroit, Michigan
Gary's ice cream, N. Main Street, Jacksonville, Florida
Walt's Dairy Bar, Route 10, Saint Regis, Montana
Daisy Queen ice cream, N. Main Street, Greenville, South Carolina
Wheeler's Coney Island, drive-in, Route 10, Deposit, New York
Puddy's Pasties, Route 2, Iron Mountain, Michigan
Powers Hamburgers (1933), front view, Harrison Street, Fort Wayne, Indiana
Powers Hamburgers (1933), diagonal view, Harrison Street, Fort Wayne, Indiana
Jenkins' Quality Barbecue, Main Street, Jacksonville, Florida
Bang's Drive-In, Route 34, Chariton, Iowa
