SCA Weekly News Review: May 24, 2020
What does that giant red “R” stand for? This, and other bits of commercial archeology, awaiting you in the news.
DR. PATRICK’S POSTCARD ROADSIDE: The Rise of Modernism in Florida’s Tourist Towers
The Bok Tower was designed to be a sculptural set piece in a garden, an architectural folly housing a carillon. You cannot get up it for a view of the countryside; it is the view.
JOURNAL SNEAK PEEK: 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.