Retro Roadmap - Your Source for the Vintage, Retro and Cool Old Places worth visiting!
Your source for the Vintage, Retro and Cool Old Places worth visiting!
When we first moved to our town we were smitten by the flashy exterior of a vintage diner only to be disappointed on more than one occasion by the food– reminding us that you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover. Taking those words to heart, one day we thought we’d try an intriguing but [...]
This week’s Flickr Friday gives us a feast for the eyes, the wonderful group of photos collected in Old “Real” Diners! This group is for photos of old diners (not the super chrome modern ones). The photos can be exterior shots, details, and interiors as long as they feature predominantly the design (not the food [...]
Located smack dab between Pikes (Germantown and Ridge) in Collegeville PA, Speck’s Drive In has been serving up tasty food since 1964. There are signs on either Pike to guide you into their parking lot, and interestingly no signage on the building itself, which is reminiscent of a small Howard Johnsons, but with a red [...]
Retro Roadmap correspondent Suzanne Sullivan McGillicuddy offers up this Maine shack for a retroroadmap seafood stop. Modbetty digs the crinkle cut fries and vintage viewer! Whenever visiting friends in Portland during the warm weather months, I make every effort to take a trip out to the Lobster Shack for some fresh lobster or full-belly fried [...]
Here’s a fun way to help share some of the wonderful photos that Flickr folk are taking, of Retro Roadmap-worthy places and things. Welcome to Flickr Friday! The first group I want to share is called I Love Old Signs! because I do indeed. Love. Old. Signs. ! Here’s what you’ll find: Old neon (working [...]