This blog documents the photo-gathering roadtrips for RoadsideArchitecture.com (aka roadarch.com). That gigantic website covers buildings, signs & statues from the 1920s-1970s. The posts here offer about a dozen photos from each day of shooting. In winter, there are "news" posts about demolitions, removals, remodeling, restorations, etc.
I’m doubling up for this two-day post since there was a lot of mountain driving (low volume shooting) and crummy weather. This Colonel Sanders statue is in Corbin inside the Sanders Cafe & Museum: Abraham Lincoln at the Middle Creek National Battlefield in Prestonsburg: Holcomb’s Custard Stand in Isom: This closed movie theatre in Columbia […]
Just getting going on the Kentucky stuff — about another 7 days of posts to go. “Big Mo,” the Mosasaur statue at Big Mike’s Gift Shop in Cave City, got a bright repaint last year: The Cardinal Motel in Bowling Green was leveled by a tornado in 2021 but the statue survived. It didn’t even […]
Let’s start with a giant sheaf of wheat in Hopkinsville: I shot this statue at the Dempewolf Ford Lincoln Mercury dealership in Henderson in 2010: By 2012, it had been replaced with this more human-like statue shown below. Then, in 2018, the dealership changed names and moved this statue back behind the building and a […]
This post covers the day spent in the northwest corner of Tennessee en route to Kentucky. At the Tennessee/Kentucky border in Hazel, KY — representative frontiersmen from both states (Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett) and their hunting dogs: A snowball-throwing polar bear serving as a mailbox holder in Jackson, TN. More about these statues at […]
If you are paying close attention to these posts and wondering what happened to Day 5… Well, there was a little “incident” during this trip where my camera card fell out of the slot of my laptop (hadn’t pushed it in yet). Before I noticed, my new young dog, Pivot, had chomped some nice dents […]
The Evans Vacuum location in River Oaks used to have two giant vacuums in the parking lot. They were about 10 feet tall. That store and the vacuums are gone now. Here’s a photo I took of one of them back in 2006: But there are still three locations that have them hanging inside the […]
I believe this bull statue has been at this Lubbock, TX location since at least the 1970s when there was a Sirloin Stockade there: This fiberglass Billy the Kid statue was installed in Glencoe, NM when the place was still Fox Cave (now Weed World): These giant hands in Glencoe, NM which had been created […]
These initial states will go by really quick in these blog posts since the focus of this trip is on Kentucky and Tennessee. I usually have a few dozen planned stops with new stuff and reshoots to break up the monotony of the long interstate slogs on these trips. Let’s start with this polka dot […]
I’m back from my five-week summer trip. As I add each day’s photos to my website (roadarch.com), I’ll be chiming in with posts here — often, with photos not “worthy” of the website. I’m also posting some other photos to Flickr (see link bottom of this post). During the trip, I posted about a dozen […]
One more test run to make sure the van and everything else is ready for the five-week summer trip. On the last day of the trip, the shifter on my steering column went: flopped around like a wet noodle instead of engaging in Drive or any gears. So, off to a Firestone in downtown Sacramento […]
