![DR. PATRICK'S POSTCARD ROADSIDE: National Park Gateway Towns](https://sca-roadside.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/West-Yellowstone.jpg)
DR. PATRICK’S POSTCARD ROADSIDE: National Park Gateway Towns
For every Yellowstone there is a West Yellowstone, a “Gateway Town” of tourist services and diversions that is the commercial opposite of the natural splendor preserved within the boundaries of an adjacent national park.
![DR. PATRICK'S POSTCARD ROADSIDE: Toffenetti’s](https://sca-roadside.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Toffenetti-Main.jpg)
DR. PATRICK’S POSTCARD ROADSIDE: Toffenetti’s
This 1940s postcard suggests Toffenetti’s 1,000-seat “Cathedral of All Restaurants” was synonymous with New York and New York with Toffenetti’s, which was largely true to Times Square visitors of the Postwar era.
![Main Street](https://sca-roadside.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Main-Street.jpg)
DR. PATRICK’S POSTCARD ROADSIDE: Main Street
It was a challenge to affix Main Street signage to pre-Modern buildings because the architecture got in the way.
![Ceder Hedges Cabins](https://sca-roadside.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Ceder-Hedges.jpg)
DR. PATRICK’S POSTCARD ROADSIDE: Cedar Hedges Cabins
Cedar Hedges Cabins outside Searsport, Maine, was one of many cabin courts operating along US 1 in the 1930s.
![The National Road](https://sca-roadside.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/National-Highway.jpg)
DR. PATRICK’S POSTCARD ROADSIDE: The National Road
The automobile rediscovered long-distance roads forgotten since the rise of the railroads, and then reshaped them to suit their purpose.
![DR. PATRICK’S POSTCARD ROADSIDE: Southern Belles](https://sca-roadside.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Southern-Belles.jpg)
DR. PATRICK’S POSTCARD ROADSIDE: Southern Belles
Southern Belles and Bathing Beauties dress up a giant map of Florida made from grapefruits and oranges for tourists on the electric boat tour at Cypress Gardens.
![Horn & Hardart](https://sca-roadside.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Atuomat-Postcard.jpg)
DR. PATRICK’S POSTCARD ROADSIDE: Horn & Hardart
Hot food from a coin-operated slot in the wall? Cheap. Automatic. Modern. And so 1902.
![Brial Veil Falls](https://sca-roadside.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Bridal-Veil-Postcard-Before.jpg)
DR. PATRICK’S POSTCARD ROADSIDE: Bridal Veil Falls
After crossing the Eastern Continental Divide in Highlands, North Carolina, US 64 drops down the west slope of the Blue Ridge via Cullasaja Gorge passing a series of waterfalls including Bridal Veil Falls.
![DR. PATRICK’S POSTCARD ROADSIDE: The Georgian Revival Hotel Block](https://sca-roadside.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Hotel-Herring.jpg)
DR. PATRICK’S POSTCARD ROADSIDE: The Georgian Revival Hotel Block
The Georgian Revival hotel block was a symbol that a small, mid-American city growing since becoming a railroad junction in the 1880s or 1890s had by the 1920s achieved the status of someplace among the galaxy of other towns on the prairie.
![DR. PATRICK’S POSTCARD ROADSIDE: Patmars](https://sca-roadside.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Patmars-Drive-In.jpg)
DR. PATRICK’S POSTCARD ROADSIDE: Patmars
Howard Patrick and Norman Marsh combined their names and opened El Segundo, California’s Patmars Drive-in at Imperial Highway & Sepulveda Boulevard in 1939.
![DR. PATRICK’S POSTCARD ROADSIDE: Downtowners](https://sca-roadside.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Downtowner.jpg)
DR. PATRICK’S POSTCARD ROADSIDE: Downtowners
Downtowners, Rowntowners and five stories of breeze block in Danville, Virginia!
![DR. PATRICK’S POSTCARD ROADSIDE: Husted Cabins](https://sca-roadside.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Husted-Cabins.jpg)
DR. PATRICK’S POSTCARD ROADSIDE: Husted Cabins
This circa 1930 postcard of Husted Cabins on US 40 between Marshall and Clark Center, Illinois, captures a time during the early auto age when farmers lucky enough to be on a major trunk route reaped a windfall of auto-oriented commerce.