Retro Roadmap - Cool Vintage Places & Retro Fun
Cool Vintage Places & Retro Fun - with your hostess Mod Betty!
The Culinary Arts Museum (Part of Johnson & Wales University) in Providence RI is a must stop for any diner lover, but especially now with an exhibit of diner photos from famed photographer Robert O. Williams. Opening on November 15 and on view through June 2013 “Hometown Diners” is a collection of photographs by award-winning
California Design – Living the Modern Way: This exhibition is the first major study of California midcentury modern design. With more than 300 objects—furniture, ceramics, metalwork, fashion and textiles, and industrial and graphic design—the exhibition examines the state’s role in shaping the material culture of the entire country. Retro Roadhusband and I raced through our
When you’re heading to Boyertown to check out Fegley’s Reading Diner on display in Boyertown (as we reported on here) don’t forget to check out the kitschy yet sobering exhbit “The Life Atomic: Growing up in the Shadow of the A Bomb” also on view at the Boyertown Museum of Historic Vehicles, until December 24,
I’m still having a hard time believing that summer is over – where in the H did it go, and so quickly?! Before the season was officially over, I did manage to cram in a lot of fun in a summer locale – Ocean City Maryland- without even leaving the first block of the boardwalk!
I just got a nice note from photographer John Woolf – his exhibit of 20 diner and roadside photos on display at the National Heritage Museum in Lexington MA (which I always mistakenly refer to as the Museum of Our National Heritage) – has been extended! Now you have until November 2011 to check out
If you’re a vintage diner fan and want to learn more about the history of this popular style of American eatery, you owe it to yourself to attend one if not both of these talks, in the next few days/weeks. These presentations will be given by two of the foremost diner experts in the field,
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