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A spiny dinosaur (or dragon?) skeleton highlights the quirky collection in the yard outside the Arizona Trading Post, an old-fashioned trading post of the type that was a roadside attraction along the highway in the days of cross-country, two-lane road travel

A spiny dinosaur (or dragon?) skeleton highlights the quirky collectio...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

In Dolan Springs, Arizona, along the road to southern Nevada, a spiny dinosaur (or dragon?) skeleton rules the yard outside the quirky Arizona Trading Post, an old-fashioned trading post of the type that was a roadside attraction along the highway in the days of cross-country, two-laneroad travel

In Dolan Springs, Arizona, along the road to southern Nevada, a spiny ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

Scene from "Juan's Garden" behin Delgadillo's Snow Cap Drive-In restaurant, a historic eatery and roadside attraction in Seligman, Arizona, along old U.S. highway 66

Scene from "Juan's Garden" behin Delgadillo's Snow Cap Drive-In restau...

Much of America's best-known historic highway, which was known as "the Mother Road," connecting Chicago, Illinois, and Santa Monica, California, in the heyday of cross-country family travel has been subsumed by... More

Roadside America -- Townley milk bottle, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Roadside America -- Townley milk bottle, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Margolies, John, photographer...Townley milk bottle, 24th and Classen Streets, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma..1993...1 photograph : color transparency ; 35 mm (slide format)...Notes:. Title, date and keywords based o... More

A giant, no-doubt faux, cow skull and a spiny dinosaur (or dragon?) skeleton dot the yard outside the quirky Arizona Trading Post, an old-fashioned trading post of the type that was a roadside attraction along the highway in the days of cross-country, two-lane road travel

A giant, no-doubt faux, cow skull and a spiny dinosaur (or dragon?) sk...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

Bomber gas station, diagonal view, Route 99 E., Milwaukie, Oregon (LOC)

Bomber gas station, diagonal view, Route 99 E., Milwaukie, Oregon (LOC...

Margolies, John,, photographer...Bomber gas station, diagonal view, Route 99 E., Milwaukie, Oregon..1980...1 photograph : color transparency ; 35 mm (slide format)...Notes:. Title, date and keywords based on in... More

The Arizona Trading Post, an old-fashioned trading post of the type that was a roadside attraction along the highway in the days of cross-country, two-lane road travel, is full of curiosities inside and out

The Arizona Trading Post, an old-fashioned trading post of the type th...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

Scene outside Delgadillo's Snow Cap Drive-In restaurant, a historic eatery and roadside attraction in Seligman, Arizona, along old U.S. highway 66

Scene outside Delgadillo's Snow Cap Drive-In restaurant, a historic ea...

Much of America's best-known historic highway, which was known as "the Mother Road," connecting Chicago, Illinois, and Santa Monica, California, in the heyday of cross-country family travel has been subsumed by... More

Iconic roadside "HERE IT IS" sign for the Jack Rabbit Trading Post along U.S. Route 66 in the tiny settlement of Joseph City, Arizona. At that old landmark, one still (as of 2019) finds a rideable fiberglass rabbit at the trading post. Versions of this sign were posted for miles in each direction to advertise this roadside attraction in the famous two-lane highway's heyday

Iconic roadside "HERE IT IS" sign for the Jack Rabbit Trading Post alo...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

Pops Route 66 Restaurant and gift shop, Arcadia, Oklahoma

Pops Route 66 Restaurant and gift shop, Arcadia, Oklahoma

Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift and purchase; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2010... More

In Dolan Springs, Arizona, along the road to southern Nevada, tourists can take their places in Old West cutouts outside the quirky Arizona Trading Post, an old-fashioned tourist draw of the type that was a roadside attraction along the highway in the days of cross-country, two-lane road travel

In Dolan Springs, Arizona, along the road to southern Nevada, tourists...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

An old, rusted car, or "jalopy," is actually a nostalgic roadside attraction at the venerable Hackberry General Store in the tiny settlement of Hackberry, Arizona "a vestige of the heyday of two-lane cross-country travel in the 1930s and 40s along U.S. Highway 66

An old, rusted car, or "jalopy," is actually a nostalgic roadside attr...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

In Dolan Springs, Arizona, along the road to southern Nevada, a spiny dinosaur (or dragon?) skeleton rules the yard outside the quirky Arizona Trading Post, an old-fashioned trading post of the type that was a roadside attraction along the highway in the days of cross-country, two-lane road trave

In Dolan Springs, Arizona, along the road to southern Nevada, a spiny ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

There was a time when gem stores were a popular roadside attraction for cross-country travelers on U.S. 50 and other numbered U.S. highways. But since high-speed interstate highways siphoned off much of the traffic from the old main highways, that time has passed for this store on U.S. 50 in the town of Hasty, in Bent County, Colorado

There was a time when gem stores were a popular roadside attraction fo...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More

An old, rusted car, or "jalopy," is actually a nostalgic roadside attraction at the venerable Hackberry General Store in the tiny settlement of Hackberry, Arizona "a vestige of the heyday of two-lane cross-country travel in the 1930s and 40s along U.S. Highway 66

An old, rusted car, or "jalopy," is actually a nostalgic roadside attr...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

Manmade creatures welcome visitors to the Prehistoric Gardens in Port Orford, an old-time roadside attraction founded by amateur paleontologist E.V. Nelson, that opened in 1955 but continues to transport vacationers through an ancient Oregon rainforest in which lurk 23 gigantic dinosaurs

Manmade creatures welcome visitors to the Prehistoric Gardens in Port ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2016:103-12) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the C... More

Scene from "Juan's Garden" behin Delgadillo's Snow Cap Drive-In restaurant, a historic eatery and roadside attraction in Seligman, Arizona, along old U.S. highway 66

Scene from "Juan's Garden" behin Delgadillo's Snow Cap Drive-In restau...

Much of America's best-known historic highway, which was known as "the Mother Road," connecting Chicago, Illinois, and Santa Monica, California, in the heyday of cross-country family travel has been subsumed by... More