Is it any surprise that so much of America’s great art can be seen from the window of a passing car, in the melange of shop signs, billboards and cheesy buildings, in the personal monuments people make in their gardens and empty lots, on the makeshift, lean-to margins where artistic preconceptions and ambitions don’t exist?
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Windows to the Vernacular
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Diners -
Roadside Mexico -
Muskegon Marvels -
Roadside Poland -
Midestern Treats -
Giant Things -
Automotive Art -
Rosehill -
Muffler People -
Hawaii Petroglyphs -
The Angkor Temples -
Creative Denver -
Grotto of the Redemption -
Roadside Indiana -
John Baeder -
The Art of Street Food -
Milwaukee Architecture -
Downstate Beauties -
Downtown Deco -
Vintage Matchbooks -
Red City San Diego -
Birmingham, Alabama -
Jacksonville Attractions -
Tiny Design -
John Margolies, Roadside America -
County Fairs -
Architectural Miniatures -
Fabulous Vistas -
The Angels of Trinity Church -
The Mansards -
The Lake -
New York 1981
The Western Avenue Art Gallery
The Grog N Groc Hall of Fame
Store names can be roadside literature in the same way that their signs can be roadside art. Here’s a collection of qualifying entries.