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America's Landmark: Under the Orange Roof
Unofficial site documenting former and current Howard Johnson's restaurants and motels.
http://www.orangeroof.org/
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American Diner Museum
A non-profit organization established in 1996 to recognize the diner's cultural and historical significance as well as its national importance.
http://www.dinermuseum.org
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American Highway Project
Uses photography to document vanishing Americana such as motels, billboards, service stations, highway signs, tourist attractions, drive-in theatres and diners. Site also includes news.
http://www.highwayproject.org/
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Atomic Number 10
Photos of vintage roadside signs, mostly neon.
http://atomic-number-10.com
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Back On Tack
A collection of roadside attractions, road art and diners. Self-confessed tackaholic Steve takes a historical and humorous look at the culture of roadside kitsch.
http://www.gethep.net/road/
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Commercial Archaeology
Aaron Marcavitch takes a scholarly look at amuseument parks, diners, drive-ins, gas stations, motels and hotels.
http://members.tripod.com/~RWUHP/ca/
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Diner City
Online directory of roadside architecture featuring photos of classic diners, motels, gas stations, route 66, googie coffee shops, and highway history
http://www.dinercity.com
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HoJoLand
Tribute site to Howard Johnson's Restaurants. Includes history and directory of existing locations.
http://hojoland.homestead.com/
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Judy's Diner Place
A personal tribute to the American diner, with exterior and interior photographs.
http://www.geocities.com/jagdinerplace/
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Lincoln Highway Heritage Corridor
Aims to identify, conserve, promote, and interpret the cultural, historical, natural, recreational, and economic resources along the historic Lincoln Highway in Pennsylvania.
http://www.lhhc.org
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Lost America Night Photography
A collection of night photography by Troy Paiva of the abandoned roadside west - buildings, signs, vehicles and scrapyards.
http://www.lostamerica.com/lostframe.html
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Minnesota's Roadside Architecture
David W. Nystuen's project to photograph all the roadside attractions in the state.
http://www.mnhs.org/places/other/roadside/
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Motel Americana
A celebration of a fading part of Americana: the motel.
http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/wooda/motel/
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NY Roadside
A gallery of expandable thumbnail photographs of the vernacular roadside attractions of New York State highways.
http://webnow.com/nyroadside
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Roadside America
Travel guide to offbeat attractions, tourist traps, weird vacations, and roadtrips. Includes tourism news.
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/
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Roadside Architecture
Debra Jane's extensive listings with photographs of historical eateries, giant structures, lodging, miniature golf, advertisement signs, and gas stations across the USA. Listed by category and by state.
http://www.agilitynut.com/roadside.html
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Roadside Online
Magazine with news articles about related features. Online version offers a weblog.
http://www.btwmagazine.com/
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Roadside Peek
A tour of 1950s roadside signage and buildings. Includes sections on the futuristic Googie style and its polynesian-influenced cousin - the Tiki look.
http://www.roadsidepeek.com/
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RoadsideFans
Glenn Wells tours roadside diners and charts the rise and fall of Howard Johnson's restaurant chain. Includes an e-mail discussion group.
http://www.roadsidefans.com
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Society for Commercial Archeology
SCA is devoted to the study and preservation of American 20th-century roadside architecture.
http://www.sca-roadside.org/
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The American Roadside
Extensive photographs, news, memories and musings on diners, drive-ins, motels, cafes and other remnants of the American roadside. Members may create their own photograph galleries.
http://www.theamericanroadside.com
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The Pottstown Cup
Levengood Dairies of Pottstown built three milk and ice cream retail stores shaped like cups with straws protruding from their tops. Amazingly, all three survive.
http://www.pottstowncup.com/
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Yahoo! Groups -- AmericanDinerMuseum
E-mail discussion group about the diner and its new museum.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AmericanDinerMuseum/
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