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!
The vintage neon clock on the deco glass brick wall of Tony’s Ice Cream in Gastonia NC clearly showed that it was breakfast time, so we stopped by this family owned and operated business for our first roadfood meal on our retro road trip through North Carolina. Tony’s has been serving the Gaston County area [...]
Closed for the season when we drove by on a Saturday morning, Bill’s Belmont Drive In in Belmont NC has been providing the greater Charlotte area with that classic summer drive in movie experience for over 50 years. With room for almost 300 cars, they offer two first run shows, full service snack bar and [...]
9/18/2011 UPDATE: Alas, according to Lizzie Mr. Robert Pace, the owner and son of the founder of the store, passed away last fall. She reports, “For a while the store was closed, but it has now reopened under new owners. They plan to “modernize without going too far.” – just know this if you’re making a trip [...]
Alas this is the final entry from our all too short stay in the south. I would not have been able to cover as many cool places in such a short amount of time if it wasn’t for the “insider skinny” provided by local folks Pat at Charlotte Eats ,Matt Brunson of Creative Loafing and [...]
If you’re like me, a sign like the one at South 21 in Charlotte NC will make you change all sorts of plans when you see it- even if you’re speeding down the highway towards another destination: We were en route from one side of Charlotte NC to the other when I saw this sign [...]
I totally dream about the fried chicken we got at Price’s Chicken Coop in Charlotte NC, and in fact am getting ravenous just looking at the photo of the food we had there (scroll to the end if you can’t wait for the big “reveal”!) So you, my dear Retro Roadmap Reader will be prepared [...]
With kind permission from Fuzzy Lizzie, I am reprinting part of her fabulous Vintage Traveler blog, highlighting a vintage motel that I’d only ever seen the sign from. When you see that sign, you hope the place is as cool that, and from Lizzie’s report, it looks like it is! I can remember the Pink [...]
