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
 • Rolando Pujol
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.
 • Rolando Pujol
The Retrologist field guide to Taco Bell's design evolution
Presented in honor of National Taco Day
 • Rolando Pujol
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.
 • Rolando Pujol
Historic Taco Bell in Lafayette, California, closes, leaving only 6 Mission-style franchises
Meanwhile, the oldest surviving location will celebrate its 60th anniversary later this month.
 • Rolando Pujol
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.
 • Rolando Pujol
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!
 • Rolando Pujol
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.
 • Rolando Pujol
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…
 • Rolando Pujol
A night at Chez Napoléon, Manhattan's soon-to-shutter French classic | Subscriber Extra
Plus, California theater to be demolished; rent hike shutters Brooklyn pizzeria; and Bojangles returns to NYC after almost 40 years
 • Rolando Pujol
Let's visit a unique McDonald's that found its 'Classic' essence again after a tragedy
This location reminds us there's always more than meets the eye along the road.
 • Rolando Pujol
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.
 • Rolando Pujol
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