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!
Oooh! The sun is shining today in FLA, what a treat! While we’ll be visiting some more mainstream attractions (someplace to do with a Mouse) here’s a neat spot down here that we’ve totally put on the list for next time – Thanks to Rick Kilby of Visual Ephemera for keeping that list growing! http://studiohourglass.blogspot.com/2012/02/old-florida-meets-old-world-at-chalet.html
If you’re ever in the area, this is a cute lil downtown area – nice for a stroll!
Route 50. Winter Garden FL
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]