Wednesday, August 13, 2025 at 8:00 pm EDT
Rolando Pujol: The Great American Retro Road Trip
The Great American Retro Roadtrip: A Celebration of Roadside Americana is Rolando Pujol’s coast-to-coast celebration of the nostalgic pleasures of America’s vintage signs, quirky roadside attractions, and offbeat fast-food relics.
Rolando is an executive producer for WABC-TV Eyewitness News in New York, where he oversees the station’s original content and helps chart its digital future, but when he’s not toiling in the newsroom he’s usually trawling for history along the American roadside. – and sharing his work on social media and his Substack.
Armed with a camera and a fondness for history, Rolando has spent many years traveling the country telling the stories, in words and pictures, of the places Americans grew up with: mom-and-pop diners, corner candy stores, the burger stands and ice cream parlors for his popular The Retrologist and social media account. The Great American Retro Road Trip is an adventure into the heart of a uniquely American strain of ingenuity and creativity, told in 320 pages and hundreds of photos.
In his presentation, Rolando will share how his new book came about, and how he approached putting it together. Then he’ll take us through the book, sharing some of his favorite photos and stories from each of the book’s chapters, which are divided by geography.