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Oakland, California 2001
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A gallery of images taken for a planned story about Oakland, California that was to be published in Roadside #32.
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With over 1500 restaurants in the US and a dozen other unfortunate counties, his signs are everywhere - towering over freeway off-ramps, lining downto...Written on 05 February 20122 comment(s) · Read More
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Highway 99, was the main north–south highway of "The West" until 1964. Beginning in Calexico, California at the Baja California, Mexico and U.S. sou...
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Here in Upstate New York, there are a lot of (potentially) beautiful old Main Streets, lined mostly or completely with handsome old brick buildings fr...
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Here are two views of another of Virginia's "Waysides," which once served motorists the way "rest areas" do now on the interstates. Ho...
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“The Artist” is a charming movie, deserving of all the Golden Globes awards it received, and then some. (Watching that otherwise uninspired awar...
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Coney Island rising
02-07-2012
It's no Luna Park, but happily, more people continue to rediscover the charms of Coney Island. Out of towners flock to... Read more
A faster train to Rutland
02-07-2012
Vermont has embraced passenger rail service like no other state. As much fun as it is to drive through its... Read more
Ride Trains: Flying on Amtrak's Cardinal
02-05-2012
Amtrak train takes in scenery between New York and Chicago Amtrak's Cardinal is not a big train — just one sleeping... Read more
Miss Albany closes -- Diner in danger
02-03-2012
UPDATE: The diner will actually close this weekend, February 12. You still have time to visit for one final meal.... Read more
Chagrin Falls shows soft heart for its hardware store
01-29-2012
Who says that the internet hasn't helped the local business? It's all in how you use it. In the Era of... Read more
Hollywood to theaters: Upgrade or die
01-26-2012
As if small, independent and historic theaters have enough to worry about. Soon they won't even have any films to... Read more
Classic downtown theater preserved and repurposed
01-24-2012
When one thinks of Los Angeles, the notion of a traditional downtown isn't the first image to come to mind.... Read more
Pittsfield diner stays in the family
01-17-2012
Good to see this diner stalwart still going strong. 55 years later, Pittsfield diner is still all in the family By Dick... Read more
Libby's goes Greek
01-17-2012
Would it be too much to ask that the new owners simply preserve this rare Worcester diner and keep it... Read more
New hardware for Amtrak
01-13-2012
For all the money that Congress and the President tossed around since 2009, you'd think Amtrak would have all-new-everything by... Read more
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The Jersey Shore Uncovered: A Revealing Season on …
By Peter Genovese Rutgers University Press, Rutgers, 2003 $14.95, 225 pages, hardcover Genovese does it again. By combining his true reporter nature... Read more
Tom Shanahan on the Owl Diner renovation
Roadside Video exclusive Four Sisters Owl Diner owner Tom Shanahan talks to Roadside correspondent Tory Germann about the new vestibule he... Read more
Whip City Neon Gem
Westfield, Massachusetts also known as the "Whip City" still has an architecturally intact downtown, and in the heart of it,... Read more
Roadside Approved Link: OnlynDetroit.com
Because of its current state of unfortunate affairs and its rich industrial and cultural history, we are in search of... Read more
Liberté, Fraternité, Latté
Taking the Family Roadside into the Catskills for some R&R reveals a sad diner situation and a café for the... Read more
Hope runs out: The American Diner Museum unloads i…
Diner Museum diner blowout sale underway! As regular readers know, this website has for the past ten years kept a close,... Read more
Capital quick trip
Ollie's Trolley gets honorable mention after our whirlwind visit to Washington D.C. When my former employers at Ball Publishing owned Roadside... Read more
Staunton to Bristol, Virginia
Rough Draft Roadtrip - Day 2 The end of this leg couldn't have worked out better. Approaching city limits, I came... Read more
Into the Land of the Large
Rough Draft Roadtrip, Sixth Day North of Cave City along Route 31E, you will find plenty of pleasant scenic countryside, but... Read more
Red Arrow Hits Target
Sometimes you don’t know what happened to you until after it’s over. My recent breakfast visit to the Red... Read more
Harvey House Returns to Kansas City
Photos and Story by Dirk Burhans When trains made a station stop, hungry travelers were... Read more
Atlantic City Gamble: Seeking charm and a ride bac…
Finally recharged, we had a few more items on the agenda: More beach, amusement park for Roadside Girl, dinner at... Read more
Tonic on the Taconic
Otto Maier greets you with the sincerity of a fervent missionary. If you have the great pleasure to stop for... Read more
Download Issue 27: Good Diners Good Neighborhoods
Explore the Philadelphia's Mayfair section back in 1997 and how the once-great Mayfair Diner helped to bring about a revival... Read more
My Nashville Pilgrimage - Intro
Let the record show that I, Randy Garbin, publisher of Roadside Magazine and RoadsideOnline.com, two of the finest documents of... Read more