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It wouldn’t be “Vintage Technology Time” here at Retro Roadmap, without me singing the praises and generally getting some attention for the Johnson Victrola Museum in Dover, DE. Though this unassuming brick building has been housing the museum since 1967, I’m ashamed to say that I did not even know about this place until a [...]
I am always looking for ways to delay the inevitable journey home from whenever we go up to Massachusetts to visit my family, so when I spied a pamphlet extolling the virtues of the Vintage Radio and Communications Museum on one of our roadside stops, I implored RRH to stop so we could have a [...]
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 [...]
If you’re looking to immerse yourself immediately into the vintage Christmas spirit and aren’t near a REAL 5 & 10 store, you won’t want to miss the vintage Woolworth’s display at the National Christmas Center on Route 30 in Paradise, PA. It’s like stepping back into another era, with the holiday seen through the eyes [...]
When you’re heading to Boyertown to check out Fegley’s Reading Diner on display in Boyertown (as we reported on here) don’t forget to check out the kitschy yet sobering exhbit “The Life Atomic: Growing up in the Shadow of the A Bomb” also on view at the Boyertown Museum of Historic Vehicles, until December 24, [...]
Why am I calling the Reading Diner the “Diet Diner”? Because while it’s fabulously restored and maintained, it doesn’t serve any food! Instead is serves as a great addition to the Boyertown Musuem of Historic Vehicles, in Boyertown, PA. Some background: A vintage 1938 O’Mahony diner, the Reading Diner was originally open in Exeter, PA. [...]
I’m still having a hard time believing that summer is over – where in the H did it go, and so quickly?! Before the season was officially over, I did manage to cram in a lot of fun in a summer locale – Ocean City Maryland- without even leaving the first block of the boardwalk! [...]
I just got a nice note from photographer John Woolf – his exhibit of 20 diner and roadside photos on display at the National Heritage Museum in Lexington MA (which I always mistakenly refer to as the Museum of Our National Heritage) – has been extended! Now you have until November 2011 to check out [...]
Mod Betty’s a wee bit busy tonight but I didn’t want another moment to pass by before I shared one of the highlights of our entire Retro Road Trip – a visit to the American Sign Museum in Cincinnati OH. It was the BEST! Here’s a video sneak peek showing just a smidge of what [...]
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