<span style="color: red">ZOOM RECORDING:</span> Brian Butko – Greetings from the Lincoln Highway <br /><span style="font-size: 72%; color: red">NO LOGIN REQUIRED</span>

ZOOM RECORDING: Brian Butko – Greetings from the Lincoln Highway
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Join Brian Butko, author of 4 books on the Lincoln Highway, as takes us on tour of the fabled highway from New York to San Francisco, past mountaintop lookouts, through the gumbo of Iowa, and stopping at vintage cafes and cabin courts. We’ll learn where the road went in 1913, and why, and how that all
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<span style="color: red">ZOOM RECORDING:</span> Bill Swislow – Roadside Art Environments<br /><span style="font-size: 72%; color: red">NO LOGIN REQUIRED</span>

ZOOM RECORDING: Bill Swislow – Roadside Art Environments
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Join SCA board member, Bill Swislow, as we look at some of the country’s oddest roadside attractions, the ones so eccentric that calling them works of art is the only way to do them justice.
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<span style="color: red">ZOOM RECORDING:</span> Googie Modern: Architectural Drawings of Armet Davis Newlove

ZOOM RECORDING: Googie Modern: Architectural Drawings of Armet Davis Newlove

Members are invited to login and join architect and historian Alan Hess as he shares discoveries from his newest book (with Michael Murphy), Googie Modern: Architectural Drawings of Armet Davis Newlove.
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<span style="color: red">ZOOM RECORDING:</span> Havana’s Mid-Century Remains

ZOOM RECORDING: Havana’s Mid-Century Remains

Explore the mid-century time capsule that is Havana through the eyes of photographer Josh Silber via this SCA Event recording. During its heyday, Havana was a resort city rivaling Miami Beach or Las Vegas and an important commercial hub for the Americas.
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<span style="color: red">ZOOM RECORDING:</span> One-of-a-Kind: How John Margolies Preserved a Fading America<br /><span style="font-size: 72%; color: red">NO LOGIN REQUIRED</span>

ZOOM RECORDING: One-of-a-Kind: How John Margolies Preserved a Fading America
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Wednesday, October 19 at 8:00pm EDT. Photographer and cultural historian John Margolies called himself an “architectural undertaker,” traversing the country to make pristine photographic record of our gas stations, motels, diners, movie houses and more. Join two of Margolie’s journalist friends, Ellen Warren and Margaret Engel, as they share some of his important finds and oddities
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<span style="color: red">ZOOM RECORDING:</span> Mark Lamster: Back to the Future

ZOOM RECORDING: Mark Lamster: Back to the Future

On Tuesday, September 13 Preservation Houston and author, architecture critic and professor Mark Lamster for an online program exploring the story of the House of the Century and how this unique building might be saved. A Q&A with Lamster followed the presentation.
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<span style="color: red">AN SCA+DOCOMOMO IN-PERSON EVENT:</span> Revisit the Whitehall Mall, a “Shopping Gem of the Golden Era”

AN SCA+DOCOMOMO IN-PERSON EVENT: Revisit the Whitehall Mall, a “Shopping Gem of the Golden Era”

Saturday, October 8 from 11:00am to 1:00pm EDT, we invite you to Join Michael Hirsch, President of the Board, Society for Commercial Archeology, for an in-person tour of Whitehall Mall in Fullerton, PA, a “shopping gem of the golden era.” Plus, with optional diner stop after the tour!
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<span style="color: red">ZOOM RECORDING:</span> Collecting the Roadside: Personal Collections and Archives<br /><span style="font-size: 72%; color: red">NO LOGIN REQUIRED</span>

ZOOM RECORDING: Collecting the Roadside: Personal Collections and Archives
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SCA Secretary, Irene L., and Curator of the Alexander Architectural Archives, Beth D., discuss personal collections focused on documenting the American roadside. This presentation discusses proper care, the process of donating or selling collections, and what you can do to facilitate the process.
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