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Here are a number of references which can be used to research old antique postcards and to date vintage postcards. Many postcard history and postcard artists links are included. Also see the Canadiana and Northern Ontario Postcard Photographers pages for additional postcard references. The story of Antoine’s Moose-Yard provides additional background information on Northern Ontario life as it was more than 100 years ago.
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- Roadside America:
- American Motels: Postcards from the Era of the Open Road
- Dixie Highway, The: Route 31
- Drive-Ins.com, a definitive resource for drive-In information
- Florida’s Lost Tourist Attractions
- Groceteria, a history of the American supermarket
- Highway Route Markers, with a useful pictorial guide to 1940s State Highway Markers
- Historic California U.S. Highways
- Historic Context of the Dixie Highway, The
- Holiday Inn illustrated history, with postcards
- Just Passin’ Through, The Lincoln and Victory Highways in Nevada
- Lincoln Highway, The: An Introduction to America’s First Transcontinental Road for the Automobile
- Lincoln Highway Association, The: Route 30
- Malls of America, blog chronicling lost shopping malls of the 1950s-1970s
- Motel Americana: Postcards from the Road
- Motels of the Southwest
- National Historic Route 66 Federation
- North American Auto Trails: Marked Auto Trails of the United States and Canada, 1910-1930
- The Pennsylvania Turnpike, America’s First Superhighway
- Pikes Peak Ocean-to-Ocean Highway, The
- Primarily Petroliana and Automobilia
- Roadside America
- Roadside Architecture, a profusely illustrated site documenting diners, drive-in movie theaters, Greyhound bus stations, wigwams and teepees and more
- Roadside Humor postcards
- Roadside Peek - Great resource for the lover of roadside America! Route 66, roadside vernacular architecture, coffee shops, motels, neon signs - you name it, they’ve got it.
- Roadside Photos, a noteworthy collection of roadside images including motels and classic signage along Route 66, the Lincoln Highway, Route 40 and other highways
- Route 40: Frank Brusca’s Seminal Work
- Route 66 Photo Albums
- Route 80: The Dixie Overland Highway
- Route 90: The Old Spanish Trail
- Sleeping in a Wigwam: The Wigwam Village Motels
- Society for Commercial Archeology, The - National organization devoted to the buildings, artifacts, structures, signs and symbols of the 20th-century commercial landscape
- Touring the 1930s American Roadscape - Roadside Americana gas stations, eateries, tourist courts and motels, as seen in vintage postcards
- U.S. Highways from Route 1 to Route 830
- U.S. Route 6 Tourist Association: The Roosevelt Highway (the Midland Trail)
- U.S. Highway 90, postcards from the “Southern Route 66”
- Valentine Diners, a history
- Vintage Vegas Postcard Museum
- Wigwam Nation, mapped locations of roadside wigwam architecture including motels, restaurants and gas stations
- The Yellowstone Trail, 1912-1930: The Route That Opened the Northwest to Automobile Tourists
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