Roadside attraction
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The End of the Road: Vanishing Highway Architecture in America (1981) by John Margolies documents unusual roadside architecture and novelty architecture from across the U.S. including motels, gas stations, drive-ins, cafes, diners, signs and billboards. |
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A roadside attraction is a feature along the side of a road meant to attract tourists. In general, these are places one might stop on the way to somewhere, rather than actually being a destination. They are frequently advertised with billboards. The modern tourist-oriented highway attraction originated as a U.S. and Western Canadian phenomenon in the 1940s to 1960s,
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See also
- Another Roadside Attraction, 1971 novel by Tom Robbins
- Another Roadside Attraction (festival), Canadian music festival
- Australia's big things, novelty architecture and large sculptures in Australia
- Enchanted Highway, collection of scrap metal sculptures along an unnumbered stretch of highway in North Dakota
- Giants of the Prairies, novelty architecture and large sculptures in Canada
- John Margolies, whose 13,000+ photographs of roadside attractions in the United States are now in the public domain
- List of largest roadside attractions (international)
- Novelty architecture
- Roadside America (disambiguation)
- Tourist trap
- Wall Drug
- What Were They Thinking?, a Canadian comedy television series which profiled roadside attractions
- Jacques Moeschal
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