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Category Archives: SCA Journal Online

The Rise of White Flour

SCA Journal Online, UncategorizedBy SCAJune 12, 2020Leave a comment

FULL ARTICLE By Ronald Ladouceur – The development and promotion of one product more than any other illustrates the power of modern banding both to manipulate and exploit cultural and racial anxieties and promote purchase by otherizing non-buyers.

JOURNAL SNEAK PEEK: White Tower Takes on Pittsburgh

SCA Journal OnlineBy SCAMay 22, 2020Leave a comment

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.

Safety on the Interstate: The Architecture of Rest Areas

SCA Journal OnlineBy SCAMarch 19, 2020Leave a comment

FULL ARTICLE by Joanna Dowling – Reduced now to nothing more than a place to pee, rest stops, officially “safety rest ares,” remind us not only of the early history that they seek to depict, but of our twentieth century transportation history that we seek to preserve.

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