
A Route 66 quiz
I’ve been slow about posting, but interested to know how you all do on this route 66 Quiz: How Stuff Works: Vintage Route 66 Businesses

I’ve been slow about posting, but interested to know how you all do on this route 66 Quiz: How Stuff Works: Vintage Route 66 Businesses

A huge update from the Boots Motel website! IMPORTANT UPDATE: August 15th., 2011 The Route 66 Chamber of Commerce is happy to announce that two

I’m not sure if anyone else was wondering, but I was curious what was up with the “Mad Men” and taping for next year. The

More ’60’s than ’50’s – these illustrations are from “Two Stories about Kate and Kitty”, illustrations by Alice Schlesinger. 1968

It’s wonderful when we can report a Mid-Century preservation success: “Long, low and in his trademark black steel, the shuttered-since-2008 Esso station by Bauhaus master


It’s been a while since we featured something non-architecture related and here’s a good chance. Spotted on Tom and Lorenzo’s site, this fabulous Mad Men

I realize this motel was built in 1939, which technically makes it out of our realm for 50’s motels, but it’s along the famed Route

Here at Mid-Century Style, as we researched the good and the “needing-renovation” of 1950’s motels, one name kept coming up over and over. The Shady

*This feature will introduce our new Mid-Century Motels site – we’ve been working on it and now just need more wonderful motels – please email