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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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Stuart's Restaurant, angle detail, Route 12, Worcester, Massachusetts
Rolando Woods Inn, overall diagonal view, Route 16, Blue Ridge Summit, Pennsylvania
Sammy's Seafood House, Route 90, Lake Charles, Louisiana
Roussel's Restaurant, Route 61, La Place, Louisiana
Half Way Inn, Route 95, New Meadows, Idaho
George Joe Restaurant, horizontal view, Murray Drive & Grossmont Boulevard, La Mesa, California
Sing Hai Chinese Restaurant, Phoenix, Arizona
Chinese Tea Garden, Main Street, Decatur, Illinois
Jimmy Woo's Pagoda, horizontal view, Route 53, Eau Claire, Wisconsin
Broiler Cafe, horizontal view, N. Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah
Fong's Tea Garden, W. Idaho Street, Boise, Idaho
New Grand View Cafe, 300 North, Ogden, Utah
Imperial Palace Restaurant, front view, entrance, Route 17C, Endicott, New York
Steele Country Kitchen sign, Route 29, Pensacola, Florida
Monty's Garden Restaurant neon entrance sign, Route 12, Leominster, Massachusetts
Uranium Cafe Chinese sign, Route 66, Grants, New Mexico
Christie's Restaurant sign, cowboy shrimp, Houston, Texas
Ko-Ko-Mo Dine In Your Car sign, Routes 79 & 80, Bossier City, Louisiana
Southern Cupboard Cabins restaurant and cabins, one cabin, Route 1, Ruther Glen, Virginia
First National Bank (now a restaurant), 201 E. Main Street, Fairfield, Illinois
Lam's Oriental Cuisine, Route 72, Canton, Ohio
Mark You Restaurant, Fall River, Massachusetts
Silver Queen Restaurant & Clear Creek National Bank, 6th Street, Georgetown, Colorado
