Retro Roadmap - Cool Vintage Places & Retro Fun
Cool Vintage Places & Retro Fun - with your hostess Mod Betty!
One of Philadelphia’s more distinctive vintage neon signs – the Boot & Saddle sign on Broad Street is in the news, as it may be revitalized if the property it is attached to gets reopened. (UPDATE! 5/1/2012 looks like the project is moving forward, according to this City Paper’s Meal Ticket post: Broad Street’s Boot &
Mod Betty is So Sad to Report that South Pacific Has Closed. Suddenly, without warning September 2012. And the place is gutted already As soon as I found out that there’s was tiki tastic gem of a restaurant / lounge hidden in a beige strip mall in Newton MA I had to check it out.
You never know who knows what is “Retro Roadmap worthy” until you chat with them, and that’s how I randomly found out about a number of cool old places from Martin Murphy of the Museum of Missing History. The Stardust Motel in Wallace Idaho is just one of the places he was kind enough to
Retro Roadhusband and I decided to to check out the new J.J. Abrams movie Super 8 this evening and got an unexpected Retro Roadmap surprise. There is a shot in the movie of a downtown area and I almost leaned over to RRH to say it kinda reminded me of the little town of Weirton,
Please welcome Arkansas to the RetroRoadmap stable of stars, with the inclusion of these two stop-and-photo worthy vintage signs from the TX / AR border town of Texarkana! We had hoped to make a longer stop in Arkansas during our 1-day 12-hour drive from Austin, TX to Memphis, TN, but we had to make do
Sometimes going down a different street can make all the difference- as it is exactly how I found this great vintage neon sign and wonderful vintage building housing Harry Louie Laundry and Dry Cleaning in downtown Dover, DE. (Looks like Happy Louie on this bright December day!) I was taking an alternate route to Spence’s
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