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Restaurants.
Roadside restaurants sell an anticipated experience before they serve a meal. An enormous fish, a familiar domestic shape or a carefully lettered name can give a passerby something to remember. Look for the relationship between the promise outside and the practical entrance below it. These photographs bring together restaurants of many scales, from buildings that become their own advertisements to places whose personality rests in a single sign.
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23rd Drive-In Bar-B-Q Restaurant sign, Chattanooga, Tennessee
Kwik Chick Restaurant sign, Route 87B, San Angelo, Texas
Big Texan Steak Ranch Restaurant sign, beside I-40, Amarillo, Texas
Petersen's Restaurant sign, Wharton, Texas
Dean's Restaurant sign, B-40 (Route 66), Tucumcari, New Mexico
Dean's Restaurant sign, chef detail, B-40 (Route 66), Tucumcari, New Mexico
Dean's Restaurant spoke sign, B-40 (Route 66), Tucumcari, New Mexico
Ranch House Cafe sign, Route 285, Vaughn, New Mexico
Red Ball Cafe sign, 4th Street, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Paramount Cafe sign, ("This Is It"), Cole Avenue (Route 66), Gallup, New Mexico
Jerry's Cafe sign, Cole Avenue (Route 66), Gallup, New Mexico
Savoy Bar & Grill sign, Franklin Street, Saginaw, Michigan
Foxes Den (topless) sign, Livernois, Detroit, Michigan
Hebert Candy Mansion sign, Route 20, Shrewsbury, Massachusetts
Satire Lounge sign, Colfax Avenue (Route 40), Denver, Colorado
Hilltop Steak House sign, Route 1, Saugus, Massachusetts
McIntyre's Restaurant building sign, Route 133, Rowley, Massachusetts
Irish Times Pub Clock-sign, Main Street, Butte, Montana
Fireside Cafe Canopy and sign, Main Street, Walsenburg, Colorado
Moon Glow Cafe sign, B-25, Walsenburg, Colorado
Bob's Big Boy statue sign, La Cienega Boulevard, Los Angeles, California
Bob's Big Boy statue sign, closer view, La Cienega Boulevard, Los Angeles, California
Shrimp Boat Restaurant sign, Rosemead Boulevard, Temple City, California
