Union 76 Gas Pump, San Luis Obispo, California, 1977
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In the mid-1970s, John Margolies began to assemble a visual record of America's built roadside landscape. Over the following three decades, he traveled thousands of miles to photograph the overlooked and often quickly vanishing structures that had grown out of American automobile culture and main street commerce. His photographs of hotels, motels, diners, service stations, drive-ins and attractions celebrate and capture a unique chapter of American history.
In the mid-1970s, John Margolies began to assemble a visual record of America's built roadside landscape. Over the following three decades, he traveled thousands of miles to photograph the overlooked and often quickly vanishing structures that had grown out of American automobile culture and main street commerce. His photographs of hotels, motels, diners, service stations, drive-ins and attractions celebrate and capture a unique chapter of American history.
Artifact
Slide (Photograph)
Subject Date
1977
Creators
Collection Title
On Exhibit
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
2013.150.183
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
Technique
Chromogenic processes
Color
Multicolored
Dimensions
Height: 2 in
Width: 2 in
Inscriptions
at top on slide mount: Union 76- Madonna Inn / Madonna Rd / San Luis Obispo, Calif / Set 1 / @1977
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