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!
I was relieved to learn (from the nice policeman who was curious as to why I was photographing a closed roadside root beer stand) that the Weber’s Drive in in Brooklawn, NJ is just closed for the season. Phew! When I saw the shuttered drive-in and empty parking lot recently, I got worried! We’ll have [...]
Last week I got a bit turned around heading to the Society For Commercial Archeology’s New Jersey Diner Tour reception – but I definitely didn’t go the Wrong Way Old King Louie because I got to stop at one of the cheeriest roadside drive in restaurants I’ve visited- Weber’s Famous Root Beer on Route 38 in [...]
There’s still time to sign up for the Society of Commercial Archeology‘s South Jersey Diner (and more) tour on Saturday September 17! Tour Highlights Include: Historic Jersey Roads! o Journey parts of U.S. Route 130 – before I-295 and the New Jersey Turnpike, there was only Route 130, serving early suburbanites and East Coast travelers, [...]
When we heard that The Caribbean Motel in Wildwood NJ (a 1950s modern motel masterpiece) was honored as the first motel to be listed in the Register of Historic Places, we knew we had to re-visit the site of one of our fab vintage vacation destinations!
A real, live vaudeville show in an authentic vintage theatre? Yep! It’s happening for real from June 9-12 at the beautiful reopened Broadway Theatre in Pitman, NJ. What a lovely way to step back in time while stepping out for the evening!
In business since 1962 J & O Fabrics in Pennsauken NJ is an absolute must-stop if your looking for the perfect fabric for your tiki lounge, bowling shirt, roller skating skirt or perhaps curtains for your vintage camper. All of these crafty concepts came to mind as I wandered down aisles and aisles of vintage [...]
Normally places on the RetroRoadmap have a vintage look or feel, but I’m declaring that Joe Italiano’s Maplewood Inn in Hammonton NJ is going on the map because of their great homemade spaghetti. They’ve been in business for 65+ years on the White Horse Pike, and are still family owned and operated too! (If you’re [...]
When I spied the old fashioned sign for Bayard’s Chocolate House swinging in the brisk breeze I could not help but be swayed off of busy Route 130 and into their packed parking lot in Cinnaminson NJ. Bayard’s has been providing the Cinnaminson and Cherry Hill area with Valentines day chocolates and candies since 1939, [...]