DR. PATRICK’S POSTCARD ROADSIDE: The Dalles
This 1950s view of The Dalles, Oregon, preserves the “Gas Station Cluster at the Edge of Town” that once book-ended America’s small town Main streets.
DR. PATRICK’S POSTCARD ROADSIDE: Lazy L Motel
Back in the 1950s the Lazy L Motel served those lonely motorists traveling through Osborne, Kansas on US 281.
DR. PATRICK’S POSTCARD ROADSIDE: Dutch Village Motor Court
Northern Delaware’s Mid-Megalopolitan location between Philadelphia and Baltimore helped make its section of US 40 a motel strip, especially after the opening of the Delaware Memorial Bridge to New Jersey in 1951.