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At The Dawn Of Automobile Age Americans’ Predilection For Wanderlust Prompted A New Wave Inventive Entrepreneurs To Cater This Mode Transportation Starting In 1920S Attention-Grabbing Buildings Began Appear That Would Draw Passing Drivers Snacks Provisions Souvenirs Or Quick Meal Architectural Establishment Day Dismissed These Roadside As “Monstrosities” Yet They Flourished Especially Along America’s Sunbelt And Particular Southern California Proprietors Indulged Their Creative Impulses Form Giant Eccentric Constructions — From Owls Dolls Pigs Ships Coffee Pots Fruit Symbolic Intent Was Guileless Were Marginalized By History But Over Past 40 Years California’s Anomalies Have Regained Integrity Are Now Being Celebrated Freshly Revised Compendium Crazy Brimming With Best Examples Genre Includes Essays Exploring Influences Fostered Nascent Movement Well Identifying Unconventional Landscapes Attitudes Found On Los Angeles Hollywood Roadsides Which Allowed Flourish Profusion Addition Features David Gebhard’s Definitive Essay Defined Vernacular Almost Forty Ago Concept Is Expanded Include Domestic Architecture Signage Fanciful Object Σελίδες: 324 Έτος Έκδοσης: 0715