The Retrologist by Rolando Pujol

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The Retrologist's Guide to Pizza Hut Classics
Plan your visit with this comprehensive list of locations
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Inside the last surviving portion of the original World Trade Center, a passageway to a lost time
This corridor is where the original WTC meets the new one, where eras collide as much as architectural styles. It's the most uncommon of common spaces.
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The Retrologist field guide to Taco Bell's design evolution
Presented in honor of National Taco Day
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Blue Light Blues: Inside one of America's last Kmarts as it prepares to close
After the New Jersey store is shuttered, there will only be two Kmarts left in the continental United States.
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Big news! My book, 'The Great American Retro Road Trip,' is available for preorder
The book is a coast-to-coast adventure celebrating roadside Americana!
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The 'Peanuts' tour of America: Exploring historic Snoopy signs and sidewalk doghouses as we celebrate Charles M. Schulz's 100th birthday!
From official museums to forgotten and long-hidden signs (and even a bridge), the nation is teeming with tributes to Charlie Brown and the gang.
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Retrologist Day Trip: Destination Pennsylvania -- roadside Americana, vintage malls and more
Patron exclusive: Big Dixie cup, Norge Ball, classic Arby's, 1970s mall with 1989 twist, John Updike country and more -- vintage spots in NJ, PA you'll…
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This just in from McDonaldland: Uncle O'Grimacey's Shamrock Shake comeback -- and farewell to a green-roofed mansard McDonald's
Plus, woes at Denny's, Sam Goody's last stand, a Big Boy battle and more headlines from the American roadside.
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Roadside Relic: The Big Chicken in Marietta, Georgia, a plucky outpost of Kentucky Fried Chicken
Col. Sanders was said to dislike the big bird, much preferring his own mug on a bucket. But the Big Chicken survives despite multiple threats to its…
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1966 Taco Bell, a rare 'mission' building, to close in Scottsdale as historic status is denied to another classic in Santa Barbara
The mission-style buildings doing business as Taco Bells are now down to 7. (I have a list.) Many former locations survive, a feast for Americana…
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Visit the amazing Wendy's museum inside the flagship store in Ohio
Where's the Beef? Here it is -- and a whole lot more for Wendy's kind of people.
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Tiny Pizza Hut with 'Classic' look coming to NYC
You can dine next week at your own 'Personal Pan Pizza Hut' in Long Island City
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