SCA Publications Store

These SCA publications and related items are available for purchase. All items are postpaid except where noted. Please make your check or money order payable to the Society for Commercial Archeology, and mail your order to:

SCA Store
c/o Greg Smith
1712 West Saint Johns Avenue
Austin TX 78757-1822

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We have a good supply of all Journal and News issues for the last few years but many earlier issues are in short supply, or, in some cases, our supply is exhausted. Order your missing issues today!

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SCA Journals

Vol 1:1 (Sep 1978) - $1.00
Vol 1:3 (Nov 1978) - $1.00
Vol 1:4 (Oct 1980) - $1.00
Vol 1:5 (July 1981) - $1.00
Vol 2:1 (May 1982) - $1.00
Vol 2:2 (July 1983) - $1.00
Vol 11:1 (Spring 1990) - $3.00
Vol 11:2 (Summer 1990) - $3.00
Vol 11:3 (Winter 1990) - $3.00

Vol 11:4 (Summer-Fall 1991) - $6.00

  • Tania Werbizky, "GAtes' Diner Saga"
  • Brian A. Butko, "Lincoln Highway Returns to the Spotlight"
  • Larry Cultrera, "Diner Hotline"
  • Pete Phillips, "1991 Annual Meeting and Tour of 'Big D'"
  • "Settlement Awarded in Case of Lost Coke Signs"
  • Book Reviews:
    • James J. Fink, The Automobile Age
    • Albert D. Manchester, Trails Begin Where Rails End: Early-Day Motoring Adventures in the West and Southwest
    • Michael Vinson, Motoring Tourists and the Scenic West, 1903-1948
  • "Highway Reports"

Vol 12:1 (Winter 1991-2) - $6.00

  • Pig Stands

Vol 12:2 (Fall 1992) - $6.00

  • Tourist Courts
  • Route 66

Vol 12:4 (Winter 1993-4) - $6.00

  • Diners

Vol 13:1 (Fall-Winter 1994-5) - $6.00

  • Kathleen Kelly Broomer, "Shoppers World and the Regional Shopping Center in Greater Boston"
  • Bad Taste at 31st Birthday for Flamingos" (reprinted from The Economist)
  • Martha Carver, "Driving the Dixie: The Development of the Dixie Highway Corridor"
  • Larry Cultrera, "Diner Hotline"
  • Patricia Leigh Brown, "In the City of Change, Is 'Las Vegas Landmark' an Oxymoron?"
  • Tim Hollis and Dora Alabama, "Vintage Movie Palaces Restored in Birmingham"
  • Tim Hollis and Dora Alabama, "Early Electric Traffic Light in Lynn, MA"
  • Book Reviews:
    • John Margolies and Emily Gwanthmey, Signs of Our Times
    • Jeffrey Tennyson, Hamburger Heaven: The Illustrated History of the Hamburger

Vol 13:2 (Spring-Summer 1995) - $6.00

  • David Gebhard, "Programmatic Architecture: An Introduction"
  • Mike Bedeau and Jim Wilson, "Big Critters in the Upper Midwest"
  • Michael Karl Witzel, "Ralph and Ernie's Roadside Igloo"
  • Douglas Towne, "The Mysteries of the Wandering Cactus Unearthed"
  • Larry Cultrera, "Diner Hotline: The Diner as an Art Form"
  • Kevin J. Patrick, "The American Roadside Giant: Myth, Meaning and Cultural Identity"
  • "Programmatic Architecture Around the States"
  • Patricia Buckley, "Jumbo Oranges & Giant Lemons"

Vol 13:3 (Fall 1995) - $6.00

  • Stuckey's
  • Goofy Golf
  • Postwar Motels

Vol 14:1 (Spring 1996) - $6.00

  • Ozark Trails
  • Ocean Highway
  • Yellowstone Trail

Vol 14:2 (Fall 1996) - $6.00

  • Drive-in Theaters
  • Car Washes
  • Panoramic fold-out cover!

Vol 15:1 (Spring 1997) - $6.00

  • National Parks
  • Highway Bridges

Vol 15:2 (Fall 1997) - $6.00

  • 20th Anniversary Issue
  • Early Highways
    • Old Spanish Trail
    • Detroit-Lincoln-Denver Highway
    • Tamiami Trail

Vol 16:1 (Spring 1998) - $6.00

  • Kahiki Restaurant (Columbus, OH)
  • Southern Cal. Tiki
  • National Register

Vol 16:2 (Fall 1998) - $6.00

  • Gary R. Mason and Sara Amy Leach, "The Redwood Highway: Ancient Trees and Tourist Bait"
  • Jon Axline, "Montana's Scenic U.S. Highway 91"
  • Jon Axline, "Montana's Highway Historical Markers"
  • Martha Carver, "The Dixie Highway and Automobile Tourism in the South"
  • Beth Savage, "The Federal View: The Register Goes West"
  • Diane DeBlois, "Better Roads"
  • Pete Phillips, "Sign Lines"
  • Larry Cultrera, "Shawmut Diner Goes Coast-to-Coast"
  • Book Reviews:
    • Richard Longstreth, City Center to Regional Mall: Architecture, the Automobile, and Retailing in Los Angeles, 1920-1950
    • Kris Lackey, RoadFrames: The American Highway Narrative

Vol 17:1 (Spring 1999) - $6.00

  • Kimberly Hinder, "View Points and Points of View: Florida's Early Tourist Towers"
  • Michael A. "Bert" bedeau, "Conference Report"
  • Max J. Skidmore, "From Portland to Portland: The Theodore Roosevelt International Highway"
  • Todd Croteau, "Documenting Park Roads & Parkways"
  • Diane DeBlois, "Creating the Service Station"
  • Larry Cultrera, "Historic Commission to Nominate Nine Diners to National Register"
  • Book Review: Will Anderson, Where Have You Gone, Starlight Cafe?

Vol 17:2 (Fall 1999) - $6.00

  • Bernice L. Thomas, "Bigger Than 'The Real Thing:' Giant Coca Cola Bottles"
  • Christian W. Overland, "Celebrating Detroit: Assembling an Automobile National Heritage Area"
  • Michael A. "Bert" Bedeau, "Aye Carumbus!!! SCA's 'Made in Ohio' Conference"
  • Suzanne and Archie Loss, "Highway 11 - Harrisonburg, VA"
  • Diane DeBlois: Western Hotel Stationery"
  • Pete Phillips, "Sign Lines"
  • Larry Cultrera, "'Are We Having Fun Yet?' Diners on the Comics Page"
  • Book Reviews:
    • Tim Hollis, Dixie Before Disney: 100 Years of Roadside Fun
    • John Margolies, Fun Along the Road: American Tourist Attractions

Vol 18:1 (Spring 2000) - $6.00

  • "Join Us In... Cool Colorado"
  • Mella Rothwell Harmon, "Landrum's: The Biggest Little Diner"
  • Robert W. Hadlow, "The Columbia River Highway: America's First Scenic Road"
  • Beth Savage, "Milestones, Updates & Corrections"
  • Diane DeBlois, "'Havin' a Blast:' Atomic Tourism"
  • Pete Phillips, "Sign Lines"
  • Larry Cultrera, "Diner Hotline"
  • Book Reviews:
    • Jill Livingston, That Ribbon of Highway I: Highway 99 from the Oregon Border to the State Capital
    • Jill Livingston, That Ribbon of Highway II: Highway 99 from the State Capital to the Mexico Border
  • Arthur Kim, "Childhood Roadsides"

Vol 18:2 (Fall 2000) - $6.00

  • Cuban car culture
  • Roadside crosses
  • Arizona motels

Vol 19:1 (Spring 2001) - $6.00

  • Isaly's and the Klondike Bar
  • TraveLodge
  • Round Stone Station

Vol 19:2 (Fall 2001) - $6.00

  • Kimberly Hinder, "Publix: Where Shopping Was a Pleasure"
  • John W. W. Mann, "Reins, Trains & Automobiles: Spokane's Historic Transportation Corridor"
  • Beth Savage, "From Lincoln to Eisenhower"
  • Diane DeBlois, "Songs of the Road"
  • Pete Phillips, "Sign Lines"
  • Larry Cultrera, "Diner Hotline"
  • Book Reviews:
    • Harold J. Meeks, On the Road to Yellowstone: The Yellowstone Trail and American Highways
    • Brian Butko and Kevin Patrick, Diners of Pennsylvania

Vol 20:1 (Spring 2002) - $6.00

  • Erik Berg, "Politics, Pavement, and Postcards: Arizona's Superior-Miami Highway"
  • Blythe Semmer, "Tourist Lodging in the Great Smoky Mountains and the Transition from Regional to National Style"
  • Arthur Krim, "Mohawk Trail Rediscovered"
  • Beth Savage, "NPS Route 66 Preservation Program"
  • Diane DeBlois, "Auto Signaling"
  • Pete Phillips, "Sign Lines"
  • Larry Cultrera, "Diner Hotline"
  • Book Reviews:
    • Alan Hess and Andrew Danish, Palm Springs Weekend
    • Mark S. Foster, Castles in the Sand: The Life and Times of Carl Graham Fisher

Vol 20:2 (Summer 2002) - $6.00

Vol 20:3 (Fall 2002)

  • Peter Glaser, "Along Yonge Street to the Playground of America"
  • Keith A. Sculle, "Mission Village in Imagined America"
  • Beth Savage, "Federal View"
  • Diane DeBlois, "A Roof Over the Car"
  • Pete Phillips, "Sign Lines"
  • Larry Cultrera, "Diner Hotline"
  • Book Reviews:
    • Roger B. White, Home on the Road: The Motor Home in America
    • Warren H. Anderson, Vanishing Roadside America

Vol 21:1 (Spring 2003) - $6.00

  • Katherine Fuller, "Myrtle Beach Music and Motels"
  • Douglas C. Towne, "Sombreros, Tequila & Sin: Tourist Districts of Mexican Border Towns"
  • Beth Savage, "From Carthage to Cuba: More Missouri Roadside Resources Join the National Register Ranks"
  • Diane DeBlois, "Traffic Safety"
  • Larry Cultrera, "Diner Hotline"
  • Book Reviews:
    • Lisa Mahar, American Signs: Form and Meaning on Route 66
    • Nathan Marask and Nigel Cox, Los Angeles Neon

Vol 21:2 (Summer 2003) - $6.00

  • Guy W. Carwile, "$2.50 and Up with Radio and Fan... The Hotel Palomar Courts"
  • Stephanie Klavens, "The Art of the Movie Theatre: A Disappearing American Tradition"
  • Beth Savage, "The Federal View"
  • Pete Phillips, "Sign Lines"
  • Diane DeBlois, "Gas Station Vacations a la Carte"
  • Larry Cultrera, "The Origin of Diner Hotline"
  • Book Reviews:
    • Charles Phoenix, Southern California in the '50s: Sun, Fun, Fantasy
    • Vance Lauderdale, Ask Vance: The Best Questions and Answers from Memphis Magazine's History and Trivia Expert

Vol 22:1 (Spring 2004) - $6.00

  • Connie Torbeck, "The National Road & U.S. 40: Main Street of South Central Illinois"
  • Anya Rao, "The Landscape of Spinning Sombreros & Electrified Teepees: Restoring New Mexico's Route 66 Signs"
  • Beth Savage, "More Exemplary Diners - and a Dinor - Join the National Register Ranks"
  • Pete Phillips, "Sign Lines"
  • Diane DeBlois, "Turnpike Acceptance"
  • Larry Cultrera, "Diner Hotline"
  • Book Reviews:
    • Jeff Brouws and others, Readymades: American Roadside Artifacts
    • Jim Heimann, ed., Las Vegas: Vintage Graphics from Sin City

Vol 22:2 (Fall 2004) - $6.00

  • Archie Loss, ed., "A Trip Across the Country, July 1933: A Journal by Lourene Vail"
  • Keith A. Sculle, "A Bit of the South Florida Roadside Transplanted: Allan W. Davis, Sea Shells and Souvenirs"
  • Beth Savage, "By the Side of the Road: Roadside Markers"
  • Pete Phillips, "Sign Lines"
  • Diane DeBlois, "A Stitch in Time..."
  • Larry Cultrera, "Diner Hotline"
  • Book Reviews:
    • Andrew F. Wood and Jenny L. Wood, Motel America
    • Leland and Crystal Payton, See the Ozarks The Touristic Image

Vol 23:1 (Spring 2005) - $6.00

  • Cliff Leppke, "Vanishing Points: Phillips' Postwar 'New Look' Service Stations"
  • Annamary Fitzgerald, "Gospodor's Monument: Roadside Reflections for a Better World"
  • Beth Savage, "A Rural Roadhouse and Some Swingin' Beach Motels"
  • Pete Phillips, "Sign Lines"
  • Diane DeBlois, "Rubber on the Road"
  • Larry Cultrera, "Diner Hotline"
  • Book Reviews:
    • Curt McConnell, The Record-Setting Trips: By Auto from Coast to Coast, 1909-1916
    • Charles A Stansfield, Jr., Vacationing on the Jersey Shore

Vol 23:2 (Fall 2005) - Segregation on the Road - $6.00

  • Lyell Henry, "Accommodations for Colored"
  • Gregory Smith, "Finest for Negroes: Lodging in Jim Crow Era Texas"
  • Mella Rothwell Harmon, "500 Negro Housewives Annually: Reno's African-American Divorce Trade"
  • Frank Brusca, "Crisis on Route 40: How the U.S. Department of State Worked on the Domestic Front to Combat Whites-Only Policy in Public Accommodations"
  • Diane DeBlois, "Nothing Plain at the Plains Motel"
  • Beth Savage, "Segregation and Preservation"
  • Pete Phillips, "Sign Lines"
  • Larry Cultrera, "Diner Hotline"
  • Book Reviews:
    • David Clements, Talking Shops: Detroit Commercial Folk Art
    • Peter Genovese, The Jersey Shore Uncovered: A Revealing Season at the Beach
Vol. 24:1 (Spring 2006) - $6.00
  • Douglas Towne, “The Eternal Roadtrip: The Art of Warren Anderson”
  • Peter Glaser, “Oasis by the Lake: Toronto’s Motel Strip”
  • Andrew Wood, “Motel Moderne”
  • Diane DeBlois, “Death Valley Junction Oasis”
  • Pete Phillips, “Sign Lines”
  • Larry Cultrera, “Diner Hotline”
  • Book Reviews
    • Brian and Sarah Butko, “Roadside Giants”
    • Abigail Gumbiner, Carol Hayden and Jim Heimann, “Vacant Eden: Roadside Treasures of the Sonoran Desert”
Vol. 24:2 (Fall 2006) - $6.00
  • Justin Gunther, “Mount Vernon: An Architectural Identity”
  • Troy R. Lovata, “Iconic Torreons of the American Southwest”
  • Beth Savage, “40th Anniversary of the National Historic Preservation Act”
  • Diane DeBLois, “Slept in a Wigwam Lately?”
  • Pete Phillips, “Sign Lines”
  • Arthur Krim, “Twisting the Night Away in Philly”
  • Larry Cultrera, “Diner Hotline”
  • Book Reviews
    • Yorke Rowan and Uzi Baram, eds., “Marketing Heritage: Archaeology and the Consumption of the Past”
    • Arthur Krim, “Route 66: Iconography of the American Highway”
Vol. 25:1 (Spring 2007) - $6.00
  • Guy W. Carwile, “It’s Got to Be Good”: Borden’s Ice Cream Store”
  • Virginia B. Price, “Moonlit Miracles for the Tourist Trade: Reconstructing Fort Rosalie in Natchez”
  • Beth L. Savage, “The Perfect Orange, Savannah, and Save-A-Landmark”
  • Diane DeBlois, “California Hot Springs”
  • Pete Phillips, “Sign Lines”
  • Larry Cultrera, “Diner Hotline”
  • Book Reviews
    • Carol Dawson and Carol Johnston, “House of Plenty: The Rise, Fall, and Revival of Luby’s Cafeterias”
    • Lee Whiteley and Jane Whiteley, “The Playground Trail: The National Park-to-Park Highway: To and Through the National Parks of the West in 1920”
    • Howard J. Erlichman, “Camino del Norte: How a Series of Watering Holes, Fords, and Dirt Trails Evolved into Interstate 35 in Texas”
    • Daniel Francis, “A Road for Canada: The Illustrated Story of the Trans-Canada Highway”
    • David W. Monaghan, “Canada’s ‘New Main Street’: The Trans-Canada Highway as Idea and Reality 1912-1956”

Journals not listed are sold out. Good quality copies of out-of-print issues can be obtained on an individual basis by contacting the SCA Store at the above address. The charge for such services will be equal to the listed price for similar in-stock issues.

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SCA NEWS 

  • Vol 1:1 (Spring 1993) 
  • Vol 1:2 (Summer 1993) 
  • Vol 1:3 (Fall 1993) 
  • Vol 2:2 (Summer 1994) 
  • Vol 2:3 (Fall 1994) 
  • Vol 2:4 (Winter 1994-95)
  • Vol 3:2 (Summer 1995)
  • Vol 3:3 (Fall 1995)
  • Vol 3:4 (Winter 1995-96)
  • Vol 4:1 (Spring 1996)
  • Vol 4:2 (Summer 1996)
  • Vol 4:3 (Fall 1996)
  • Vol 4-4 (Winter 1996-97)
  • Vol 5-1 (Spring 1997)
  • Vol 5-2 (Summer 1997)
  • Vol 5-3 (Fall 1997)
  • Vol 5-4 (Winter 1997-98)
  • Vol 6-1 (Spring 1998)
  • Vol 6-2 (Summer 1998)
  • Vol 6-3 (Fall 1998)
  • Vol 6-4 (Winter 1998-99)
  • Vol 7-1 (Spring 1999)
  • Vol 7-2 (Summer 1999)
  • Vol 7-3 (Fall 1999)
  • Vol 7-4 (Winter 1999-2000)
  • Vol 8-1 (Spring 2000)
  • Vol 8-2 (Summer 2000)
  • Vol 8-3 (Fall 2000)
  • Vol 8-4 (Winter 2000-01)
  • Vol 9-1 (Spring 2001)
  • Vol 9-2 (Summer 2001)
  • Vol 9-3 (Fall 2001)
  • Vol 9-4 (Winter 2001-02)
  • Vol 10-1 (Spring 2002)
  • Vol 10-2 (Summer 2002)
  • Vol 10-3 (Fall 2002)
  • Vol 10-4 (Winter 2002-03)
  • Vol 11-1 (Spring 2003)
  • Vol 11-2 (Summer 2003)
  • Vol 11-3 (Fall 2003)
  • Vol 11-4 (Winter 2003)
  • Vol 12-1 (Spring 2004)
  • Vol 12-2 (Summer 2004)
  • Vol 12-3 (Fall 2004)
  • Vol 12-4 (Winter 2004)
  • Vol 13-1 (Spring 2005)
  • Vol 13-2 (Summer 2005)
  • Vol 13-3 & 4 (Fall/Winter 2005)
  • Vol 14-1 (Spring 2006)
  • Vol 14-2 (Summer 2006)
  • Vol 14-3 (Fall 2006)
  • Vol 14-4 (Winter 2006)
  • Vol 15-1 (Spring 2007)
  • Vol 15-2 (Summer 2007)

All back issues of the News are $2.00 each, postpaid.
Bulk discounts available:
$5.00 per volume
$45.00 per complete set of available issues

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SCA TOUR GUIDES

These handy guides feature tours from past SCA events.

All Night, All Night Diner Tour
Douglas A. Yorke, Jr., (1980). 
Massachusetts and Rhode Island diners are described from this night-time tour. 
17 pp 
$5.00 postpaid 
"Big D" Roadside Architecture Tour
Dwayne Jones, et al, (1991). 
Highlights include iceberg and wagon-shaped buildings, Alamo Plaza Court, and Art Deco Centennial Exposition buildings. 
26pp, $5.00 postpaid 
Diner GuideDelaware Valley Diner Tour Guide
Michael Bennett, et al, (1993). 
Detailed histories of diners in the Philadelphia area, with an introduction by Richard Gutman. 
36pp, $10.00 postpaid 
Granite Faces and Concrete Critters: Automobile Tourism in the Badlands and Black Hills of South Dakota
Michael Bedeau, (1994). 
Features detailed descriptions of numerous roadside artifacts.
36pp, $7.50 postpaid 
Drivin' the Dixie: Automobile Tourism in the South
Martha Carver, Jeffrey Durbin, Claudette Stager, et al, (1998)
Hefty volume covering two Dixie Highway tours in Tennessee and Georgia from SCA's 1998 conference in Chattanooga. Maps and illustrations.
280 pp. $25.00 postpaid.
 Headin' for RenoReno or Bust Tour Guide
Mella Rothwell Harmon, Ronald M. James, Terri McBride, Michael A. "Bert" Bedeau (2002)
Excellent roadside guide to Reno and environs. Unique deck o' cards design. Copiously illustrated.
41 pp, $10.00 postpaid
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BOOKS AND SUCH

Roadside AmericaRoadside America: The Automobile in Design and Culture
Edited by Jan Jennings (Ames, IA: ISU Press), 1990.
Selected essays from the 1988 SCA conference, "Americans and the Automobile," Dearborn, MI., 220 pp.
$39.95 postpaid
Commercial Archeology BibliographyCommercial Archeology Bibliography: Resources for the Road
Edited by Mike Jackson, (1995). 
A comprehensive listing of books and magazine articles arranged by topic. 21pp.
$5.00 postpaid 
SCA Journal Index
Edited by Joe Ashley, (1995). 
Articles from Volume 1:1 through 13:1 of the SCA Journal are indexed by author, location, and topic. 22pp
$5.00 postpaid 
"Americans and the Automobile"
A three-color on black mylar poster from SCA's conference, with images from Henry Ford Museum's "The Automobile in American Life" exhibit (1988). 
$5.00 postpaid 
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