Remembering Roadside America: Preserving the Past as Landscape and Place

Index

INDEX Pages numbered in boldface refer to topically-relevant illustrations. Abilene, KS, 219, 220 African-Americans, 24, 37–38, 138, 146, 204, 231 Agee, James, 2, 42–43, 46, 61 Alderson, William, 135 Alexandria, VA, 115 Alsop, Stewart, 67 Altizer, Bob and Debbie, 125 Amarillo, TX, 193 American Assoc. of Highway Officials (AASHO), 32 American Scenic and Preservation Society, 99 American West, the, 21–24, 34, 40, 47, 144, 145 Amesbury, MA, 217 Anderson, Sherwood, 51 Annapolis, MD, 18 Appleton, William Sumner, 99 architectural history, 100, 174, 177, 179, 212, 232 Arlington, TX, 190, 191 Arroyo Seco Parkway (Los Angeles, CA), 113, 114 Atherton, Lewis, 37 Auburn, IN, 163 automobiles, xvi, xviii, 4, 9–10, 13, 20, 26, 30, 59–61, 93, 95–96, 101, 104–5, 107, 128, 142–43, 168, 171, 174, 176, 178, 180, 212, 214, 217, 219, 221, 223–24, 231; convenience of, xvi, 9110, 13, 29, 51; ownership of, xviii, 7–9, 26, 36–38, 99, 142, 204, 214, 218; vintage, xv, xx, 133, 148, 149, 165–66, 172, 173, 174, 225 automobile dealer garages, xviii, 53, 81, 163–64, 165, 175, 186–87; America’s Packard Museum (Dayton, OH), 163– 64, 165, 166 automobile industry, xviii, 6–7, 11, 20, 26, 218 automobile tourism, xx, 8, 10, 21, 23, 29, 33–37, 40–43, 58, 60, 77, 140, 143–44, 152, 155–56, 161, 167, 175, 183, 205, 218, 224 automobility, xv, xviii, xxi, 5–11, 24, 60–61, 63, 93, 96–97, 104, 133, 154, 169–70, 175, 183, 219, 231–32; defined, 4; gender issues, 6, 9, 24, 41–42, 98, 162, 170, 187, 204; impact on life in America, xv, xx, 4, 9–10, 13, 26, 168–69, 176–78, 206, 214, 217–18, 223–24, 226–27 274 Index Baerwald, Thomas J., 78–79 Barstow, CA, 160 Barthuli, Kaisa, 159 Basso, Hamilton, 37 Beagle, Peter S., 90–91 Belasco, Warren, 26 Benton, Thomas Hart, 25 Bement, Austin, 34 Bennett, J. M., 50–51 Blake, Peter, 65, 69 B. Lloyd’s Pecan Service Stations, 47 BP, plc (formerly British Petroleum), 118 Blue Ridge Parkway, 113 Breezewood, PA, 3, 74 Bronx River Parkway, 33 Brookes, John, 57 Brown, Denise Scott, 70–71, 88, 110 Brunner, Edward M., 196 Bucher, Todd and Nina, 123–24 building codes, 19, 65, 221 Calgary, Alb, 182, 183 camping and camp grounds, 42–43, 45, 51 capitalism, xix, 11, 169, 221 Carpenter, Charles F., 142 Cecil, OH, 16 central business districts, 8, 38, 51, 55, 62, 82, 104, 214, 216, 222 Champaign, IL, 17, 74, 76, 77, 85 change and changefulness, xv–xvii, 3, 11, 14–15, 19, 74–80, 111, 171, 177, 191–94, 204, 206, 209, 232; emphermality, xvi, xxi, 3–5, 9, 11, 13, 22, 27, 29, 74–75, 97, 134 Chaplin, Charles, 23 Charleston, SC, 105–6, 107, 108, 109, 134–35, 216 Cherokee, NC, 210, 211 Chesterwood House (Stockbridge, MA), 107 Chicago, IL, 85; automobity’s impact on, v, xv, 2–4, 8, 11, 29–30, 48, 51, 53–55, 60–63, 88–91, 93, 104, 139–40, 222, 231; cities, 25, 93, 95; historic districting, 216; “strip-cities,” 89 Cities Service Oil Co., 58, 59 Clarks, NE, 158 Clay, Grady, 74–75 Cobb, Irvin, 46–47 Coffeyville, KS, 39 Colo, IA, 138, 158–59, 185, 188 Commerce, GA, 14 commercial strips, xv, 2–4, 29–30, 40, 95, 103, 130–31, 139, 140, 169, 175–77, 210, 211, 213–14, 216, 228; at freeway interchanges, 73–74; dereliction along, 14, 16, 85–86, 87, 88; ephemerality of, 3, 13, 29, 54, 70–71, 75, 76, 77–78, 79, 80, 86–87, 134, 210, 213, 217; homogeneity of, 15–16, 18, 24, 60, 73, 107; spatial configuration of, 11, 29, 52, 60, 65, 70– 71, 96, 103, 221–22; “tax-payer strips,” 86; “television roads,” 92; “The Strip” (Las Vegas, NV), 53–54, 70, 71, 88–89, 90, 93 Conner Prairie Museum (Noblesville, IN), 149 Constantine, MI, 84 Cooperstown, NY, 149–50 Coral Court (Marlborough, MO), 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 230 Coralville, IA, 77–78, 173–74 Corn, Joseph, 162–63 corporate brands, xvii, 3, 14, 15, 23, 41, 58, 91, 199 Creekmur, Corey K., 23 Creston, IA, 118, 119 Cross, Gary, 78 Crumb, R. (“A Short History of America”), 63, 64 Cuba, MO 160, 161 Curry, John Stewart, 2 Index 275 Daughters of the American Revolution, 36 Davis...