White Tower Takes on Pittsburgh
By Brian Butko – Part archive, part personal recollection, in this article from 2015, the author traces White Castle’s celebration of the hamburger and the chain’s response to commercial demands from the 20s on.
DR. PATRICK’S POSTCARD ROADSIDE: Hotel Harris
The snazzy ‘60s graphics surrounding a lower-cased hotel harris floating in isolated, midcentury Modern splendor was the final chapter for a stalwart hotel that had been in downtown Kalamazoo, Michigan, since 1844.
DR. PATRICK’S POSTCARD ROADSIDE: Hollywood Boulevard
When H.J. Whitley laid out Hollywood in 1903, booze and theaters were prohibited. But Los Angeles, which annexed the development in 1910, had no such restrictions.