DR. PATRICK’S POSTCARD ROADSIDE: Streamline Hotel
The Streamline opened in 1941 as if a Miami Beach-Moderne hotel was dropped 260 miles north in Daytona.
DR. PATRICK’S POSTCARD ROADSIDE: Good-Bye Pennsylvania 6-5000
When New York City’s Hotel Pennsylvania opened in 1919 it was the largest hotel in the world, with 2,200 rooms each with its own private bathroom, then an unprecedented amenity for a hotel of this scale.
DR. PATRICK’S POSTCARD ROADSIDE: Country Squire Diner
This mid-1960s postcard view of the Country Squire presents the diner and Philadelphia’s western suburbs as cutting-edge Modern.