1980

All Night All-Night Diner Tour in Massachusetts and Rhode Island in April. Download Guide Annual fall conference in Philadelphia SCA administrative archives is established

1979

“Commercial Archeology: Architecture, Advertising, and the Automobile,” first such university course, taught by Chester Liebs at Boston University’s American Vernacular Summer Institute Annual fall conference in Washington, D.C., includes tour of Route 1 between the nation’s capital and Baltimore

1978

NewsJournal first published in September Second annual meeting held at Columbia University’s School of Architecture in November