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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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Chilly Willy's Frozen Custard, straight on, Wharf Street, Saint Louis, Missouri
Chilly Willy's Frozen Custard, angle view, Wharf Street, Saint Louis, Missouri
Chilly Willy's Frozen Custard, detail, Wharf Street, Saint Louis, Missouri
Doug's Ice Cream, St. Marys, Georgia
Zesto, 200 North, Provo, Utah
Darie King, E. 4th Avenue, Hutchinson, Kansas
Henne's Homemade Candy, Ice Cream, State Street, Ukiah, California
Cha Cha's Choo Choo, 12th Street, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Collin's Diner (1942), Route 7, Canaan, Connecticut
Shipp's Diner, S. Main Street, South Norwalk, Connecticut
Forbes Diner, Route 1, New Haven, Connecticut
Valentine (mfgr.'s name), Washington Avenue, Magnolia, Arkansas
Lindholm Diner, Route 7, Rutland, Vermont
White Elephant Exchange (Valentine Diner), Court Street, Beatrice, Nebraska
Forgione's Dairyhaus Ice Cream (diner), Route 6, Mayfield, Pennsylvania
Kupper's Kitchen, N. Main Street, Port Allegheny, Pennsylvania
Chris's Diner (Valentine Co.), front view, Center Street, Vermillion, South Dakota
Little Chief Restaurant (Valentine Diner), N. Main Street, Danville, Virginia
Pud's Package Liquor (Valentine Diner), Route 49, Gulfport, Mississippi
Newport Diner, Main Street, Newport, New Hampshire
Milt's Iron Horse Restaurant, Oak Street, Bakersfield, California
Carney's Diner, angle 1, Sunset Boulevard, Hollywood, California
Carney's Diner, closer, Sunset Boulevard, Hollywood, California
