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!
One of my most enjoyable regional reads online is the “definitive Rhode Island road trip” website Quahog.org. You’d be amazed that such a small state (thats not really an island) has so many unusual places, distinctive cuisines (we won’t get into the chowder wars)- and heck even had 2 beverages that have duked it out [...]
I don’t have a photo handy, but just heard the good news that the Liberty Elm – seriously one of the coolest diner scenes I’ve visited, has been added to the National Register of Historic Places! Here’s an article from the Providence Journal (ProJo, I love it)- and I’m putting this puppy on the Retro [...]
When I sent up a flare asking for Retro Roadmap-worthy places to visit in Rhode Island my pal Bill who lives in Arizona now but worked in the smallest state insisted that I eat at the Modern Diner in Pawtucket RI during my short jaunt home – and I was happy to oblige. Built in [...]
Evelyn’s Drive In in tiny Tiverton Rhode Island is a perfect road trip destination for casual waterfront dining – and my fave delicacy fried clams! Dining sounds a bit formal though, as it is more of a cozy clam shack. A fave of locals and out-of-towners for the past 40 years, Evelyn’s has been family [...]