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!
It’s always heartening to know that I’m not the only one out there photographing cool old places, as you can see from this week’s Retro Roadmap Roving Reporter Recommendations! Lately I’ve seen some inspiring shots from Flickr pal Army.Arch, who kindly granted permission for me to reproduce his photos here, like this wonderfully evocative image [...]
In the early days of RetroRoadmap’s Twitter account I was looking for cool and vintage places that might be using Twitter to promote their business. There were hardly any but when I saw the vintage root beer sign of the LaPlace Frostop’s Twitter icon I followed them immediately and we’ve exchanged friendly messages ever since. [...]
“Home of the Lot-O-Burger and Frosted Mug Root Beer” Well if their web title tag doesn’t make you want to head directly there, this photo sure will: Dang that’s pretty! And, be-still my beating heart…the mug (renovated for its 50th birthday) even ROTATES! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYR-GgoOpqs&hl=en&fs=1&] Built by Morris Terry in 1958, the Frostop is still in [...]