By John and Kris Murphey – As the first female transcontinental highway booster, Alma Rittenberry had promoted her Jackson Highway not only as a memorial to the former President nicknamed “Old Hickory,” but as a progressive path to get farmers out of the mud and a source of “financial and cultural gain” for the North and South.
By Lisa Raflo and Jeffrey Durbin: Though it now mostly follows current corporate trends, Stuckey’s was once a daring innovator whose Pecan Shoppes were the precursors of the convenience store.
Join the Society for Commercial Archeology and Retro Roadmap co-host NYC: The Golden Age of Air Travel. From our base of operations – the spectacular TWA Hotel at JFK International Airport, Eero Saarinen’s 1962 classic – we will take off for guided tours of air travel-related sites across the NYC Metro region and a bonus…