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Road Trippin’ Across the U.S.

While driving along American roadways in the mid-20th century, it was common to see restaurants masquerading as a massive 65-foot-long muskie or hot dog, gas stations in the shape of a teapot, and motels that looked like wigwams and railroad cars.

Before the arrival of corporate advertising and building conformity, the architectural environment in the U.S. was a free-form landscape of creative expressions. During the open-road automobile culture that swept the country at that time, businesses wanted to

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