Posts Tagged ‘Highway’
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 [...]
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 [...]
Classic 1957 Chevy ladies T-shirt
Classic 57 by RichardBrowne This lovely artist's illustration of a classic 1957 Chevy (in vintage powder puff blue no less!) really makes for a striking ladies t-shirt! This design really celebrates the lines of one of the most classic of the 1950's chrome beauties. Even if you don't plan to see the USA in a classic Chevrolet, you can [...]
San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge
Golden Gate Bridge Erie Sunrise by DrBurney A stunning example of Art Deco design and engineering, the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, was opened in May, 1937. The art deco elements including the towers, walkways and lighting were designed by a residential architect, Irving Morrow. The trademark color (which is actually international [...]
Route 66 Sign Poster
Route 66 sign by IndianSummer Browse more America Posters Route 66, The Mother Road, and Main Street of America were just a few of the monikers borne by the former US Highway 66. The highway from Chicago to Los Angeles was completed in 1926 and signed the following year. It was one of the main routes of westward migration during the dust [...]
Apache Motel – Tucumcari, NM
Apache Motel - Tucumcari, New Mexico Photograph by FadedHighways More Route Posters This lovely Route 66 poster features an original photograph of the Apache Motel sign with texture overlay to give it a vintage feel. The motel is in Tucumcari, New Mexico on Route 66.
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, [...]