If you’re ever in the area, this is a cute lil downtown area – nice for a stroll!
Route 50. Winter Garden FL
Mod Betty & Retro Roadhusband are headed south! Expect some fun snapshots of vintage and retro Florida!
Cheesiest Cheeseburgers Ever – Shady Glen Dairy Store, Manchester CT
February 1, 2012 By Leave a Comment
I can’t remember whether it was the Roadfood website or the book Hamburger America where I first learned about the crazy cheesy cheeseburgers that Shady Glen has been selling since 1949. But since I consider them both great resources for cool vintage restaurants and food places, I made sure that Retro Roadhusband and I would [...]
A Gorgeous Deco Delight – The NiMo Building Syracuse NY
January 30, 2012 By 4 Comments
The Art Deco style, made popular in the 1920s and 1930s was probably the very first design style that made a much younger Mod Betty stop and say, whoa-hey! That stuff is cool! Since I was also an Art History major in college I can also spot the deco style a mile away, with its [...]
Aloha! It’s a Tiki-tastic Week in January
January 26, 2012 By 4 Comments
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!
January 24, 2012 By 3 Comments
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
January 20, 2012 By 2 Comments
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
January 19, 2012 By 6 Comments
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 [...]