SCA's
Linkin' Highway
General
Roadside | Historic Preservation | Architecture
Highways | Gas | Food
| Lodging | Attractions
Drive-In Theatres | Amusement Parks
| Signs & Neon
Publications
Sites
are listed alphabetically; sites marked with an 
icon are organizations/sites/pages by or about SCA members and are listed
first.
Agility
Nut - Debra Jane Seltzer's wonderful collection of roadside information
and photographs.
The
American Roadside. A great clearinghouse of roadside-related information.
Brian
Butko - Fun stuff, taken seriously.
Road
Age - A site for diner information and subscriptions to By the
Way magazine.
Roadside
Fans - Your online guide to the great American roadside. From Glenn
Wells.
Roadside
Gallery - Marty Garfinkel's nice collection of roadside photography.
RoadTrip
America - Life's a journey - take the scenic route.
John Baeder - Web site devoted to Baeder's roadside paintings.
Center for American Places - The Center's educational mission is to enhance the public's understanding of, and appreciation for, and affection for the natural and built environment.
Chris Epting - Pop culture expert Epting's site includes many roadside-related locations.
Lost Highway - Vintage neon signs, petroliana, porcelain signs, arcade games, coin-op, kiddy rides, and other cool stuff.
Roadside Peek - A roadside journey in time along the old routes across America. Full of old motels, bowling alleys, drive-in theatres, neon signs, petrol pumps, googie sites, tiki villages, and other roadside treasures, even Route 66.
Society for Industrial Archeology - The SIA works to preserve, interpret and document our industrial past and heritage.
South of the Border - The original roadside Mecca in Dillon, South Carolina. Something and everything for everyone!
David Malcolm Rose - David's web site takes the roadside experience and reduces it to a really cool miniature level.
Zippy the Pinhead - The web site for the world's most appreciative cartoon roadside fan.
National
Register of Historic Places - The National Register of Historic
Places is the Nation's official list of cultural resources worthy of
preservation.
National
Trust for Historic Preservation - As the leader of America’s
dynamic preservation movement, the National Trust for Historic Preservation
has worked for more than half a century to save the historic buildings,
neighborhoods, and landscapes that form our communities and enrich our
lives.
PreservationDirectory.com - A resource for historic preservation, building restoration and cultural resource management in the United States & Canada.
Recent Past Preservation Network - A nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting the preservation of architectural and historic resources of the recent past.
PreserveNet - PreserveNet is an online resource designed to provide preservationists with a comprehensive database of regularly updated Internet resources and current professional opportunities.
Modern
Committee - A volunteer group formed in 1984, focuses on 20th century
architecture and related fields which reflect the heritage
of Modernism and popular culture.
Based in Los Angeles.
Did You Bring Bottles? - Web site devoted to the history and architecture of supermarkets.
Googie Architecture Online - A web site dedicated to architecture born of the post-WWII car-culture that thrived in the 1950s and 1960s.
Kentucky Roadside Architecture - From the Kentucky State Historic Preservation Office.
Lustron - Here are a bunch of Lustron web sites:
- Lustron: A New Standard for Living - Cool site by Alex James. Includes the Dancing Lustrons web page.
- Lustron Connection
- Lustron: The Home America's Been Waiting For - Web site by the producers of the television documentary.
- Lustron Locator
- Lustron Luxury - A site by a genuine "lunchbox dweller."
- Lustron Mania
Lincoln
Highway - Web site for the national organization.
Mission
66 - A federally-sponsored program to improve
deteriorated and dangerous conditions in the national parks, the result
of a massive visitor boom after World War II. From the National Park Service.
RoadTrip
USA - Web site based on Jamie Jensen's great road guide, RoadTrip
USA.
Route
40 - Web site dedicated to the highway between Atlantic City and San
Francisco.
Route
66 - Web site for the National Historic Route 66 Federation.
- Route
66 Association of Illinois
- Route 66 Association of Missouri
- Kansas Historic Route 66 Association
- Oklahoma Route 66 Association
- Texas Old Route 66 Association
- Route
66 Association of New Mexico
- Historic Route 66 Association of Arizona
- California Historic Route 66 Association
Yellowstone
Trail - From Plymouth Rock to Puget Sound. By John & Alice Ridge.
American Highway Project - The American Highway Project uses photography to document vanishing Americana such as motels, billboards, service stations, highway signs, tourist attractions, drive-in theatres and diners. We are a photographic resource for those interested in the history of transportation and architecture.
DigiHitch - A web site dedicated to the culture of hitchhiking.
National Scenic Byways - The National Scenic Byways Program is part of the U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration. The program is a grassroots collaborative effort established to help recognize, preserve and enhance selected roads throughout the United States.
Numbered Highways (from Route 1 to Route 830) - A fabulous web site containing a master index of all Federal numbered highway routings since 1926. Way cool.
Route 101 - A web site covering the highway between Santa Barbara and San Jose; documents classic motels, signs and other roadside architecture.
California Oil Museum - From fossils to "fill 'er up," the California Oil Museum tells the story of the "black bonanza" that created wealth, work, and prosperity for generations of Californians.
Drake Well Museum - Drake Well Museum collects, preserves, and interprets the founding of the oil industry in Pennsylvania for residents and visitors by educating its audiences about the persons, places, and events important to the development of the petroleum industry and its growth into a global enterprise.
EPA Guide to Recycling Old Gas Stations
Gas Signs - An online collection of gasoline logos from photos and maps.
Healdton Oil Museum - The Healdton Oil Museum tells the story of oil development in Carter County, Oklahoma.
Hess Toy Trucks - A web site devoted to toy tankers.
Oil and Gas Museum - Covering the history of the oil and gas industry in West Virginia and Ohio.
Primarily Petroliana - A community bringing gas station antique collectors, dealers, publishers and service providers together for the benefit of all. Also the home of Check the Oil magazine.
American
Diner Museum - Providence, Rhode Island.
Roadside
Fans - Your online guide to the great American roadside. From Glenn
Wells.
Under
the Orange Roof - Mr. HoJo Risin'.
Classic Cafes - London's greatest vintage 50s & 60s Formica cafe.
Diner City - Ron Saari's photographic record of classic diners.
Diversified Diners - A Cleveland-based business that restores and sells refurbished classic diners.
Hojo Land - All things blue and orange.
LA Time Machines - A site dedicated to LA bars and restaurants from the 1930, 1940s and 1950s.
Stuck on Stuckey's - Devoted to that famous roadside purveyor of pecan logs.
Valentine Diners - A wonderful accounting of Valentine Diners from the Kansas State Historical Society.
Motel
Americana - a wonderful page devoted to motels and tourist courts.
Motels
of the Southwest - The name says it all. From Douglas Towne.
Under
the Orange Roof - Mr. HoJo Risin'.
Hojo Land - All things blue and orange.
Roadside
Fans - Your online guide to the great American roadside. From Glenn
Wells.
World's
Largest - Web site for a documentary film by Amy Elliott and Elizabeth
Donius.
World's
Largest Catsup Bottle - Rising 170 feet above Collinsville, Illinois.
World's
Largest Collection of the World's Smallest Version of the World's Largest
Things Traveling Roadside Attraction and Museum
- The name says it all!
Bob's Java Jive - Former Tacoma gas station, speakeasy and drive-thru. Now a rock and roll bar. Birthplace of the Ventures and rest stop on the 2004 SCA tour.
Corn Palace - Yet another artistic use for corn. Includes the Corn Palace Web Cam!
Meremec Caverns - The site behind the barn signs.
Meteor Crater - Experience the impact!
Roadside America - Perhaps the mother of all roadside attraction web sites. Contains a huge state-by-state database with everything from the biggest ball of twine to medical oddities.
Rock City - Another site behind the barn signs.
Texas Roadside Icons - A collection of memorable artifacts along Lone Star highways.
USA Centric - A place to find locations in the United States that are strange, interesting, and sometimes a complete waste of time.
Wall Drug - Too bad you can't get the free ice water online.
World's Largest Roadside Attractions - A collection of more than 100 roadside attractions which claim the distinction of being the "world's largest" something.
American Drive-In Movie Theatre - Web site devoted to the film by Don and Susan Sanders and Kurt Kuenne.
Cinema Treasures - Currently building the largest, searchable, online database of historic theaters, features movie theater information, news, photos, message boards.
Drive-In Movie - The focal point for drive-ins on the Internet.
Drive-In Theater - A guide to America's surviving drive-ins.
Texas Drive-In Movie Theatres - A guide for the Lone Star State.
Defunct Amusement Parks - A directory of amusement parks of the past.
National Amusement Park Historical Association - The world's only educational and enthusiast's organization dedicated to all aspects of the amusement park.
American
Sign Museum - The American Sign Museum was founded to inform and educate
the general public as well as business and special interest groups of
the history of the sign industry and its significant contribution to commerce
and the American landscape.
City Lights - Vancouver's neon heritage.
History of Neon Signs - From About.com.
Las Vegas Neon Museum - Where the art form is religion!
Neon Garden - From the Yakima Valley Museum.
New England Neon - From the National Heritage Museum.
Roadhouse Relics - Contemporary retro neon signs.
By
the Way - News of "Open Roads and Busy Sidewalks" from
Randy Garbin, former publisher of Roadside.
Preservation
- The magazine of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
American Road - A recent magazine dedicated to all historic highways.
Check the Oil - A magazine dedicated to petroliana.
Out West - A quarterly "on-the-road" newspaper founded in 1987 by roving editor/reporter Chuck Woodbury,