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.
DR. PATRICK’S POSTCARD ROADSIDE: Wagon Wheel Lodge
Walt Williamson started building his rustic, roadside wonder in 1936 using utility poles and old bridge beams.
DR. PATRICK’S POSTCARD ROADSIDE: San Fernando Valley at Midcentury
Non-California’s introduction to the Los Angeles Basin’s San Fernando Valley came with the 1968 inauguration of Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In broadcast from “beautiful downtown Burbank” at the Color City television studio opened there in 1952.