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The Retrologist's Guide to Pizza Hut Classics
Plan your visit with this comprehensive list of locations
Oct 5, 2022
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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.
Sep 14, 2023
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Rolando Pujol
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The Retrologist field guide to Taco Bell's design evolution
Presented in honor of National Taco Day
Oct 5, 2023
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Rolando Pujol
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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.
Sep 10, 2023
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Rolando Pujol
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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!
Mar 31
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Rolando Pujol
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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.
Nov 26, 2022
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Rolando Pujol
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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.
Mar 9, 2024
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Rolando Pujol
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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…
Aug 2, 2023
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Rolando Pujol
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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…
Mar 17, 2024
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Rolando Pujol
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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…
Apr 7
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Rolando Pujol
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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.
Feb 26
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Rolando Pujol
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McDonald's brings back classic McDonaldland characters as part of nostalgic meal and shake campaign
McDonald's will be taking us on a "trip through McDonaldland" with its McDonaldland Meal that will include merch and more starting Aug. 12.
Aug 5
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Rolando Pujol
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