Road Trip: Roadside America, from Custard's Last Stand to the Wigwam Restaurant

This book features unseen photographs of the late ’60s and early ’70s American road trip, capturing a fanciful landscape now lost.

With a focus on vernacular roadside architecture from what it calls the golden age of the road trip, this book serves as a time capsule, primarily capturing the early 1970s. Many structures, built in an era of imagination, reflect the fancies of their owners and builders, such as a gas station canopy resembling a B-29 bomber or a hot dog stand named Frank ‘n’ Stein with a colossal Frankenstein.

The book features over 200 full-color photographs and descriptive text, Road Trip delights armchair travelers, Americana enthusiasts, architectural aficionados, and those yearning for the road’s romance.