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Summary
Margolies, John,, photographer...Central Diner, Bank Street, Poughkeepsie, New York..1976...1 photograph : color transparency ; 35 mm (slide format)...Notes:. Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer..Margolies categories: Diners; Eating & drinking establishments: (roadside and Main Street)..Please use digital image: original slide is kept in cold storage for preservation..Credit line: John Margolies Roadside America photograph archive (1972-2008), Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division..Purchase; John Margolies 2007 (DLC/PP-2007:125)..Forms part of: John Margolies Roadside America photograph archive (1972-2008)...Subjects:. Diners (Restaurants)--1970-1980..United States--New York (State)--Poughkeepsie...Format: Slides--1970-1980.--Color..Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication. For more information, see "John Margolies Roadside America Photograph Archive - Rights and Restrictions Information 723_marg.html ( 723_marg.html ) ..Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, .Part Of: Margolies, John John Margolies Roadside America photograph archive (DLC) 2010650110..: mrg.00112 ( http:// mrg.00112 ) ..Call Number: LC-MA05- 112
Take a journey along U.S. main streets, byways, and highways through photographs taken by John Margolies between 1969 and 2008. We’ll be continuously adding images from the Margolies archive of more than 11,000 color slides.
The John Margolies Roadside America Photograph Archive is one of the most comprehensive documentary studies of vernacular commercial structures along main streets, byways, and highways throughout the United States in the twentieth century. Photographed over a span of forty years (1969-2008) by architectural critic and curator John Margolies (1940-2016), the collection consists of 11,710 color slides (35mm film transparencies). Frequent subjects include restaurants, gas stations, movie theaters, motels, signage, miniature golf courses, and beach and mountain vacation resorts. Approximately half of the slides show sites in California, Florida, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, South Carolina, and Texas, but all 48 contiguous states are represented.The Library of Congress began to acquire portions of the archive in 2007, with the bulk of the materials arriving in 2015. These holdings form the core of what Margolies considered the exemplary images of his subject matter. Margolies' Roadside America work chronicled a period of American history defined by the automobile and the ease of travel it allowed. Emerging with the prosperity of the post-WWII era, roadside and commercial structures spread with the boom of suburbanization and the expansion of paved roads across the United States. Yet, in many instances, the only remaining record of these buildings is on Margolies' film, because tourist architecture was endangered by the expansion of the interstate system and changing travel desires. Margolies' work was influential in the addition of roadside buildings to the National Register of Historic Places beginning in the late 1970s. In his photography, Margolies utilized a straightforward, unsentimental approach that emphasized the form of the buildings. These structures were usually isolated in the frame and photographed head-on or at an oblique angle to provide descriptive details. Given the breadth of his subject matter, common typologies and motifs in vernacular architecture can be identified through their repetition. While environmental context is only occasionally provided, Margolies' eye was often drawn to signage or other graphic elements of buildings that expressed the ingenuity or eccentricity of their makers.