Hopefully everyone didn’t think that I perished under a pile of vintage Life magazines last week, as I know it was awfully quiet here on the site. In fact I was doing A LOT of organizing at Retro Roadmap HQ (including finding handwritten and dot-matrix printed notes from as far
You never know what you’ll stumble upon during your lunch hour, and today I’m bringing you (via @Philebrity) this 12 minute video of Willow Grove Amusement Park circa 1960. According to the Youtube description: This wonderful 12 minute film of Willow Grove Park shows what it was like visiting it
OK, I confess – I know I collect a lot of stuff, and I’ll admit Retro Roadmap HQ has gotten a bit out of control. (she says, understatedly.) Actually it usually isn’t as bad as this- Retro Roadhusband and our pal Martin are doing some work on the outlets in
Happy New Year Retro Roadmap Readers! This morning I donned my New Years Day apron, whipped up a batch of beans and rice (a nod to Retro Roadhusband’s dad’s “Hoppin John”) and spent 4 hours uploading the video below (and I have a totally new appreciation for our high speed
I know it isn’t the new year just yet, but with almost 200 magazines in my collection I thought I’d start early! Now which one should I start with? Better Homes and Gardens Kitchen Ideas for 1958 sounds good to me! Perhaps it will give me some inspiration for The
Hey gang – I know I should be chaining myself to the desk and write about the loads of places we’ve been recently (Buffalo NY! The Jello Museum! Dinosaur Land!) – but I just had some chocolate covered bacon from the newly opened but wonderfully old school Shane Confectionery in
Hello Retro Roadmap readers – hope you’re having a lovely autumn! I’m having a busy but productive season, with all sorts of changes and improvements slowly being made to the site. Please bear with me as I manually update almost every post with all sorts of tags, photos, maps and
Just read on his Diner Hotline that Larry Cultrera’s book “Classic Diners of Massachusetts” has been published and shipped, and we couldn’t be happier for our Retro Roadpal Larry Cultrera! I’ll let Larry tell it best: The book should be in most book stores (at least in Massachusetts) by the
Lookit what was waiting for me this morning at my Corporate Cube- how cool! Now I just have to find out what swell coworker left it there for me…! Mystery Solved! Work pal and all around good guy Paul Altobelli dropped this at my desk as a Thank You for
Mod Betty occasionally dips into the modern world- to see a movie or something – but even then is on the Retro Roadmap lookout. So I was thrilled to see a familiar Retro Roadmap destination – The Mayflower Cafe in the movie The Help – set in early 1960’s Jackson,
Somehow Sundays at The Hacienda have become vintage vinyl mornings. Quiet enough so I don’t totally disturb Retro Roadhusband, who has- more likely than not – come home at an ungodly hour from a gig, I’ll pull out some of my thrifted records and put them on the record player,
There’s still time to sign up for the Society of Commercial Archeology‘s South Jersey Diner (and more) tour on Saturday September 17! Tour Highlights Include: Historic Jersey Roads! o Journey parts of U.S. Route 130 – before I-295 and the New Jersey Turnpike, there was only Route 130, serving early
My oh my where DID the summer go? Did I nod off for a few weeks? Seriously! Hope all the Retro Roadmap Readers out there have some fun plans for this weekend! Stay safe and let me know if you found any cool old, vintage or retro places! I’ll be
At this time last year I could not tell one vintage camper from another, but now Retro Roadhusband and I are the proud owners of a Serro Scotty Sportsman, and were very excited to visit our first National Serro Scotty Rally this summer in Slippery Rock, PA. Even though we
