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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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JJ Restaurant Lounge, Monte Vista, Colorado

JJ Restaurant Lounge, Monte Vista, Colorado

JJ Restaurant Lounge, Monte Vista, Colorado

Moon Islander Restaurant, Titusville, Florida

Spanish Galleon Restaurant, San Antonio, Texas

New Song Hay Restaurant, Spokane, Washington

Tungloon Garden Restaurant, Spokane, Washington

Golden Buddha Restaurant, Sarasota, Florida

Restaurants White's City, Whites City, New Mexico

Coney Island Lunch Room, Grand Island, Nebraska

Rene's Casa Basso Restaurant, West Hampton, New York

House of Moy Lee Chin Restaurant, Miami Beach, Florida

Toy Sun Chinese Restaurant, Berlin, Connecticut

Toy Sun Chinese Restaurant, Berlin, Connecticut

Kowloon Restaurant, Saugus, Massachusetts

Kowloon Restaurant, Saugus, Massachusetts

South Sea Restaurant, Casper, Wyoming

South Sea Restaurant, Casper, Wyoming

Tanela Polynesian Chinese Restaurant, Shrewsbury, Massachusetts

Hojo Restaurant, Niantic, Connecticut

Hojo Restaurant, Niantic, Connecticut

Hojo Restaurant, Niantic, Connecticut

Hojo Restaurant, Niantic, Connecticut
