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Roadside Magazine Back Issues
We're going to try to make available the entire Roadside Magazine catalogue of back issues for download. Your patience will be appreciated and rewarded.
Download the Roadside premier issue
- Published on Thursday, 25 February 2010 22:46
Here it is, folks. Yes, I get more requests for number one than anything, so tonight I spent a fair amount of time scanning, cleaning up, and uploading a pristine copy for your reading enjoyment.
Aside from its (obvious) historic value, this simple four-page tabloid contains little actual information about the topic we had pledged to cover. Our first map of Massachusetts barely contains 40 diners. In a couple of years, we'd track down another 100 and list them in our first Diner Finder map.
Issue one left the presses in October, 1990. Printed in Brookline, Massachusetts by a printer now long out of business, Marjorie Norman and I then distributed them to the countertops of about a dozen diners in Massachusetts, and one in Connecticut: O'Rourke's. We printed 5,000 copies, most of which I'm sure found their way into the trash bin with old napkins, newspapers, and greasy placemats.
I produced the issue mostly on my first Macintosh computer, a Mac Plus, but because I had yet to buy my first scanner, the photos were half-toned by a production shop in Needham, Mass. I then pasted them into the layout, which I constructed in Aldus Pagemaker. I still have the original boards. The next three issues were produced using Pagemaker and output on high resolution imagesetters.
The diners that appear in this issue are the Brunch Bar Restaurant (now the Windsor Diner), Windsor, Vermont, the Empire Diner, Herkimer, New York, the Main Street Diner (now Lanna Thai) in Woburn, Massachusetts, the Salem Diner in Salem, Massachusetts, and the Day & Night Diner in Palmer, Massachusetts.
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Issue 16 for your downloading pleasure
- Published on Thursday, 18 February 2010 12:28
Thanks to a recent story published in the Washington DC City Paper and in honor of the soon-to-be-open Capital City Diner, we've decided to put the entire issue that we devoted to Avoca, New York in PDF format and make it available for download.
The main story covers the town's roadside attraction grand slam of a diner, caboose motel, drive-in movie theater, and scenic train raid that once called Avoca (and nearby Bath) their home. Today, only the motel remains.
Some of the graphics in this file -- mostly in the advertisements -- did not fully survive the transfer. If you'd like to see more of this, let us know, and we'll do our best to get more online.
Click here or on the image at right to download. You will need Adobe Reader to open this file.
Download Issue 27: Good Diners Good Neighborhoods
- Published on Saturday, 20 February 2010 22:18
Explore the Philadelphia's Mayfair section back in 1997 and how the once-great Mayfair Diner helped to bring about a revival of this solidly blue-collar neighborhood. Also in this issue, the secret to good home fries, the mystery of Hart's US 30 Diner solved, and much more.
Click here to download.
Roadside Issue 33: Ambler Lights Up!
- Published on Monday, 04 March 2013 09:02
After setting up shop in Ambler, Pennsylvania, Roadside Magazine covered the town's burgeoning revival, which today is in full bloom (and we called it!). We also stop in for something to eat at the Bus Stop Diner in Carteret, New Jersey, and at O's Eatery in Chatham, New York. Roadside Magazine went retro, returning to tabloid format and issued its manifesto, the Importance of Being Diner. Download the PDF here!
Roadside Issue 34: Thrills in the Hills
- Published on Wednesday, 27 February 2013 09:02
Roadside Magazine visits the historic and charming Knoebel's Grove Amusement Park in Elysburg, Pennsylvania. Plus, we cover a diner exhibit in Napa, California, the justly famous Red Arrow Diner, in Manchester, New Hampshire, and we sample the classic pork roll Jersey sandwich! Click here or on the image to download the PDF file. Published in 2006.