Dr. Patrick’s Postcard Roadside

On the Day the Music Died, February 3, 1959, the plane that lifted Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson into a fateful snowstorm departed from Clear Lake, Iowa, bound for the next venue on their Winter Dance Party tour in Moorhead, Minnesota.

This 1950s view of The Dalles, Oregon, preserves the "Gas Station Cluster at the Edge of Town" that once book-ended America's small town Main streets.

Back in the 1950s the Lazy L Motel served those lonely motorists traveling through Osborne, Kansas on US 281.

Northern Delaware’s Mid-Megalopolitan location between Philadelphia and Baltimore helped make its section of US 40 a motel strip, especially after the opening of the Delaware Memorial Bridge to New Jersey in 1951.