THE ARCHIVE / Themes
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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Peterson's Ice Cream, Manchester, Maine

Carvel ice cream stand, West Palm Beach, Florida

Carvel ice cream stand, West Palm Beach, Florida

Carvel ice cream stand, West Palm Beach, Florida

Dairy Queen, Aurora, Colorado

Dairy Queen, Benson, Arizona

Dairy Queen, Kewanee, Illinois

Dairy Queen, Lewiston, Idaho

Miller's Dairy King, Cherokee, Oklahoma

Miller's Dairy King, Cherokee, Oklahoma

Miller's Dairy King, Cherokee, Oklahoma

Henne's Homemade Candies & Ice Cream, Ukiah, California

Rev's Ice Cream, Fairfield, Iowa

Gary's Ice Cream, Jacksonville, Florida

Ice cream stand, Long Beach, Florida

Ice cream stand, Long Beach, Florida

Baggage Car Ice Cream, Old Orchard Beach, Maine

Eskimo Igloo Ice Cream, Columbus, Ohio

Farm Tower Ice Cream, La Conner, Washington

J.B. Scoops Ice Cream, Meredith, New Hampshire

Polar Bear Ice Cream, Texarkana, Arkansas

Snow Flake Dairi Bar, Tallahassee, Alabama

Capt'n Benny's Half Shell, Houston, Texas
