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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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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
Orange Bowl Restaurant, 1037 Broadway, Columbus, Georgia
Town Talk Diner, Lake Street, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Howard Johnson's Restaurant, Route 7, Burlington, Vermont
White Castle, Reading Road, Cincinnati, Ohio
Leon's Drive-In, S. 27th & Oklahoma, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Catfish Cover Restaurant, Route 92, El Dorado, Arkansas
Sonic Drive-In Restaurant, Central Valley, Route 66, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Wiener Schnitzel Restaurant, Las Cruces, New Mexico
Kentucky Fried Chicken, Route 93, Boulder City, Nevada
McDonald's, Route 11, Birmingham, Alabama
McDonald's, Foothill Boulevard, Azusa, California
Wooden Shoe Cafe, Routes 22 & 3, Norwood, Ohio
Re Ball Cafe, front view, 4th Street, Albuquerque, New Mexico
The Cavalier ("where special people congregate"), 114 Fifth Avenue, La Crosse, Wisconsin
Kristine's Restaurant, straight-on view, Route 1, Lake Worth, Florida
Kristine's Restaurant, vertical corner detail, Route 1, Lake Worth, Florida
Belmont Restaurant, 30 Church Avenue Southeast, Roanoke, Virginia
Tower Restaurant, angle 1, University Avenue and Reno Drive, San Diego, California
Tower Restaurant, angle 2, University Avenue and Rene Drive, San Diego, California
