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The Great American Retro Road Trip by Rolando Pujol
Spotlight on The Great American Retro Road Trip This week on Roadside Reads and Reels we are spotlighting The Great American Retro Road Trip by Rolando Pujol. As someone who’s spent years documenting the fading glow of roadside Americana, I found this book to be more than just another photo collection. Instead, it feels like
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The Abandoned Security State Bank of Mounds, Illinois
The words Security State Bank etched above the doorway, a quiet reminder of when business still flowed through these streets. Photographed May 20, 2020 © RJL Creative LLC. Use without permission is strictly prohibited. A gray sky and a hunch I wasn’t planning on stopping in Mounds that afternoon. However, the back roads of southeastern
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- Welcome to RetroHWY!
- American Photographs by Walker Evans (Museum of Modern Art)
- The Abandoned Security State Bank of Mounds, Illinois
- The Great American Retro Road Trip by Rolando Pujol
- Lesterville, Missouri General Store, More Than a Dot on the Map
- Route 66: The Mother Road by Michael Wallis
- Route 66’s Soulsby Shell Station: Still Standing in Mount Olive, IL
- Honk for Service, by Lou Ellen McGinley
- Neon Ghost on the Forgotten 66 – Nite Spot Café, Fairmont City, IL
- Finding Vivian Maier, a film by John Maloof and Charlie Siskel
