DR. PATRICK’S POSTCARD ROADSIDE: Jersey Mall
When Viennese architect Victor Gruen designed Minneapolis’s Southdale Center, he never suspected these retail mega-generators of auto-sprawl would replace the town centers he was trying to celebrate.
DR. PATRICK’S POSTCARD ROADSIDE: Fremont Street
Nevada ended its frontier ways in 1909 when it made gambling illegal to project a sense of civilized modernity to the rest of the nation. Just 22 years later, it voted gambling back as an economic panacea to fight the Great Depression.
DR. PATRICK’S POSTCARD ROADSIDE: Chinn’s Cave House
George Chinn opened up – literally, with dynamite – Chinn’s Cave House at Brooklyn Bridge, Kentucky, in the 1920s.