Posts Tagged ‘Americana’
Stonewall Motel – Denver
4 Rooms, Squared Print by John De Bord This wonderful black and white print features a close-up of a weathered old motel sign. Apparently from the 1950s, the Stonewall Motel still stands on Colfax Avenue in Denver, Colorado. This photo depicts only a portion of that sign so is a bit anonymous but still gives you the best of the vintage feel. [...]
Palms Motor Hotel
Palms Motor Hotel by RobertMars See other Artsprojekt Posters Excellent pop art collage featuring a vintage motel sign. The Palms Motor Hotel is in Portland, Oregon, and sits beside Highway 99. The Palms opened in 1954 and it doesn't look like the sign has changed since! The car looks to be a roughly early 1960s Chevrolet Impala [...]
Retro-Modern Diner T-shirt
I Love Diners by MishMoshTees Browse other Retro T-Shirts This wonderful graphic t-shirt captures the feeling of the classic 1950s diner that is in the minds eye of so many Americans and fans of Americana. It's reminiscent of the Sterling Streamliner diners that were prefabricated and shipped around America for a brief period from 1936 to [...]
Bender’s Restaurant – Canton, Ohio
Good Food by image_americana Browse other Neon Posters Bender's Restaurant has been in downtown Canton, Ohio, since 1902. It's obvious that the simple but fun neon sign in this poster is comparably newer but still firmly in the 20th century when neon signs landed on the stage. If a restaurant has stayed in business over 100 years, it seems [...]
Lincoln Motel – Massillon, Ohio
Vintage Motel Sign 1 Poster Print by image_americana This excellent poster print is by Joanne Mariol, and depicts what appears to be a mid-century motel sign. I have not been able to unearth the whole history of this motel in Massillon, Ohio, but have confirmed that the motel and its sign were destroyed around 2003 to make way for new [...]
Vintage Vegas Motel Sign T-shirt
VINTAGE VEGAS MOTEL by TheCandiedThread This vintage t-shirt illustration really captures those novel signs that punctuated the highways of America around the middle decades of the 20th century. The signs in that era were truly a work of art, jet inspired lines and bright lights! This design looks like the signs we associate with Las [...]
Crosser Diner – Lisbon, Ohio
Vintage Diner Sign by image_americana A wonderful photo of a vintage diner in Lisbon, Ohio, taken by photographer, Joanne Mariol. The Crosser Diner is a rare example of a Sterling non-streamliner dinette model dinerbuilt in circa 1944. These diners were mass produced and delivered complete to the site. The sign for this diner, which appears [...]
Culloden, Georgia
Forgotten Highways by marksda1 A photo from a forgotten road in Culloden, Georgia. In late 2008, I was traveling home from Atlanta and decided that I wanted to see something beside miles and miles of interstate concrete. I ventured down Highway 341 and saw miles and miles of old back roads that I'd like to revisit. Just as dusk was coming, [...]
Atlanta’s Varsity
What'll Ya Have? by marksda1 Browse other Atlanta Posters Atlanta's Varsity Restaurant. A familar sight to many coming up I-75/85 connector in downtown Atlanta, this vintage sign will surely stand for a long time to come. The Varsity is one of America's oldest drive-in restaurants and a beacon to visitors and Georgia Tech grads. This photo [...]