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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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China Royal Restaurant, Fall River, Massachusetts
King Sing Restaurant, Route 2-A, Orange, Massachusetts
Wong's Chow Mein Cafe, Selby at Western Avenue, St. Paul, Minnesota
New Peking Restaurant, Lake City Way, Seattle, Washington
Hong Kong Cafe, 12th Avenue, South Nampa, Idaho
South Seas Restaurant, Veterans Highway, New Orleans, Louisiana
South Seas Restaurant, vertical detail, Veterans Highway, New Orleans, Louisiana
Rice Bowl Cafe, Ocean Avenue, Lompoc, California
Torino's Bar & Restaurant, Sutter Street, Stockton, California
Caboose Bar & Grill, 15th Street, Anderson, Indiana
Texas Bar & Grill, Greenville Ave, Dallas, Texas
Brick Walker Tavern (ca. 1854) (now an antiques store) Rts. 12 & 50, Brooklyn, Michigan
Grand Restaurant, 6536 Gratiot, Detroit, Michigan
Hathaway House Restaurant, Route 223, Blissfield, Michigan
King David's Restaurant, 920 South Congress, Austin, Texas
Carroll's Cafeteria, Route 66, Shamrock, Texas
El Pasado Restaurant, Socorro, Texas
Lott's Grill, S. Main Street, Houston, Texas
Rex Cafe, Galveston, Texas
Toll House Restaurant, Route 18, Whitman, Massachusetts
Ritz Restaurant, Route 6, Union City, Pennsylvania
Big Foot Inn, angle 1, Route 63, Hayward, Wisconsin, Hayward, Wisconsin
Big Foot Inn, angle 2, Route 63, Hayward, Wisconsin, Hayward, Wisconsin
