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I knew the name Jumpin’ Jack’s Drive In sounded familiar as we stumbled upon it on our drive through Scotia, NY but little did I realize that it was because it’s a place that I’m “friends” with on Facebook! I try to support Retro Roadmap worthy businesses on the Retro Roadmap Facebook page of course. [...]
Hello Retro Roadmap readers! While I work my way through tons of photos and all sorts of wonderful vintage and retro places we’ve been over the past couple of weeks, I thought I’d share some random snapshots from the roadside, from our trip home from Lake George. Sara Glen Motel, Saratoga Springs, NY Landmark Motel, [...]
We were bummed to see the Prospect Mountain Diner in Lake George was shiny and new*, but that gave us a perfect excuse to go to Peter’s Diner in Glens Falls NY (around the corner from ABC Restaurant Equipment) before heading home from our fun Vintage Vacation. Though not a diner by architectural definition, it [...]
While downtown Lake George may boast the site of the first original miniature golf courses in the world, I was totally won over by the psychedelic cheeriness of the 1970′s era Goony Golf located on Route 9. (I don’t know when he lost his title but it seems as if Sir Goony Golf – once [...]
After all these years of saying I wanted to go to Lake George NY and partake in the vintage vacation wonderfulness, Retro Roadhusband and I spent a long weekend up there, just before Memorial Day Weekend. While some of the town has been modernized to keep with the times, there were still plenty of Retro [...]
Update 6/2011: I’ve been told via a comment on the photo below in Flickr that this business has closed. Bummer! Glad we were able to visit it when we did. During our all too short visit to the Lake George region we discovered LG’s neighbor Glens Falls NY. With a few microbrew pubs, antique stores [...]
Each July The Colonial Theatre in Phoenixville PA celebrates Blobfest – a tribite to that wonderfully kitschy 1958 sci-fi movie The Blob. This cornerstone of modern cinema was filmed in the neighborhoods in the local area and in the Colonial Theatre itself! It creeps and leaps, and glides and slides Across the floor Right through [...]
One of our fave Retro Roadmap Reporters from Vermont Craig Fitzgerald (in real life, Editor of Hemmings Sports & Exotic Car and a RetroRoadmap fan) was swell enough to pass along info about Lost Highway Art- a company that specializes in vintage travel decals. My adrenaline went through the roof when I saw this, as [...]
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