Lauren Lantos wrote:
 
>Over the next two decades, Suffolk County hopes to add other structures
>significant in Long Island's motor history forming a complete museum of
>roadside culture. Some candidates include: a gas station, a tourist cabin,
>and a diner to serve as the museum restaurant.
 
and Carolyn Brady mentions:
 > Big Ducks aside, preservationists are now getting into documenting the
>early structures of American highway that reflect the rise of the >automobile.
 A friend of mine here in the IUPUI public history program just >finished a cont
ext report on early 20th century Indiana structures such as >gas stations, motel
s and so forth as well as parking garages and "auto >laundries."
 
This brings up a question I have always wondered about.  Where are all the old B
urma-Shave signs?  Did anyone save some? Compile Some? Anthologize Some?  I'd pa
id cash money for a book/Museum visit to read them all.
 
Matthew A White
Director of Education
Baltimore Museum of Industry
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