Cool Vintage Places & Retro Fun - with your hostess Mod Betty!
Is it a ghost? Or a Retro Roadmap mirage, imagined while meandering home after having a cocktail on Bourbon Street? Mod Betty isn’t quite sure about the Royal Pharmacy on the corner of Royal and Ursulines. Except for the fact that she loves it. We spotted the fabulous vintage coke sign from a distance, with
Mod Betty’s gotta learn how to speak up more, because sometimes when she does, something unexpectedly cool happens. Like getting a tip about a throwback Italian place that she never would’ve imagined herself walking into, even as she walked up to it. The Belmont Tavern in Belleville NJ. (Shout-out to Ron S, who we met
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We got a tip about the What-a-burger restaurant from our pal Jimmy Rosen from Old Sledworks, and he knew he had us with that zig-zag canopy above the drive in spaces. We immediately added it to our possible lunch destinations in North Carolina. I mean, wouldn’t you, with that big ol’ Welcome welcoming you? According
It was a rare treat to have the entire Retro Roadfam with us on a sunny Saturday morning, so I knew that there would be nothing finer than eating in a diner – Joe’s Diner in Taunton, MA to be exact. According to the trusted diner resource Diner Hotline this vintage 1940 Sterling Diner started
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