Help! What Do You Want To Read About Next? Readers’ Choice

You know when you’re faced with a ton of options and you don’t know where to start,so you’re kinda paralyzed and just stand there, not even doing anything? Like looking at a mountain, and knowing you have to get to the top, but BOY does that mountaintop look a long ways away! Well, that’s how [...]

Aloha! It’s a Tiki-tastic Week in January

aloha shirt stamps philadelphia flower show hawaii 2012

Who knew that a trip to the post office in January could be such a tropical surprise? Not me, until I asked to purchase some postcard stamps (for our upcoming Florida jaunt.) I was delighted to see that the stamps were right up my tiki alley with images of Aloha or Hawaiian shirts on the [...]

Mod Betty’s Embarrassing Confessesion – I Forget My States!

Back of Truck With States Map

Driving behind this truck last fall, I realized with horror that even though I try to be the Retro Roadmap Hostess With The Mostess, I had a guilty confession. I don’t know my states by sight as well as I should…! (That little map had me stymied for miles! Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa?, Missouri, Michigan, [...]

Vintage Florida Memorabilia Show – HOW I WISH I WAS GOING! St. Petersburg FL Jan 29, 2012

2012 Floridiana Fest info St. Petersburg FL

Mod Betty totally has a case of the winter blues this week, with my fun weekend plans being thwarted by ominous predictions of snow, sleet and a “wintery mix” (which always sounds more like a snack treat than a weather threat.) So I’m watching Beach Party Movies, making plans for an unexpected but welcome invitation [...]

Jimmie Kramer’s Peanut Bar Restaurant – A Nutty Taste of Old Reading PA

Jimmy Kramers Peanut Bar Reading PA Peanut Man

It was a dark and stormy night…suddenly…Retro Roadhusband said he was hungry as we were driving through Reading, PA in the pouring rain. Hoping that the lights would be on at Jimmie Kramer’s Peanut Bar Restaurant, we made an easy exit off of 422, onto Penn Street, and  stepped back in time. (Stinky photo, I [...]

Back in the RRMP Saddle Again!

Hopefully everyone didn’t think that I perished under a pile of vintage Life magazines last week, as I know it was awfully quiet here on the site. In fact I was doing A  LOT of organizing at Retro Roadmap HQ (including finding handwritten and dot-matrix printed notes from as far back as 1995 which are [...]

Willow Grove Amusement Park Film Clip from Documentary

Willow Grove Amusement Park Secret Cinema

You never know what you’ll stumble upon during your lunch hour, and today I’m bringing you (via @Philebrity) this 12 minute video of Willow Grove Amusement Park circa 1960. According to the Youtube description: This wonderful 12 minute film of Willow Grove Park shows what it was like visiting it in the late 50′s, 60′s [...]

RetroRoadmap HQ, Hoarders-Worthy? Organization Resolution for 2012

Retro Roadmap HQ Organization Resolution 2012

OK, I confess – I know I collect a lot of stuff, and I’ll admit Retro Roadmap HQ has gotten a bit out of control. (she says, understatedly.) Actually it usually isn’t as bad as this- Retro Roadhusband and our pal Martin are doing some work on the outlets in the room and they had [...]

This Is It! Thomas Brothers Country Store Biglerville PA

Thomas Brothers Country Store Biglerville PA

For 100 years, the nicest people in the world have passed through the doors of Thomas Brothers Country Store – make sure you’re one of them! RetroRoadhusband and I made a quick stop there this past fall. President “Ike” and Mamie Eisenhower visited the store in 1960, and it’s in the Register of Historic Places. [...]

New Year’s Eve Day at the Victrola Museum – Auld Lang Syne Recorded in 1912

Happy New Year Retro Roadmap Readers! This morning I donned my New Years Day apron, whipped up a batch of beans and rice (a nod to Retro Roadhusband’s dad’s “Hoppin John”) and spent 4 hours uploading the video below (and I have a totally new appreciation for our high speed internet connection back home.) Today [...]