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- Union 76 Station, Santa Margarita, California, 1977 - In the mid-1970s, John Margolies began to assemble a visual record of America's built roadside landscape. Over the following three decades, he traveled thousands of miles to photograph the overlooked and often quickly vanishing structures that had grown out of American automobile culture and main street commerce. His photographs of hotels, motels, diners, service stations, drive-ins and attractions celebrate and capture a unique chapter of American history.
- 1977
- Collections - Artifact
Union 76 Station, Santa Margarita, California, 1977
In the mid-1970s, John Margolies began to assemble a visual record of America's built roadside landscape. Over the following three decades, he traveled thousands of miles to photograph the overlooked and often quickly vanishing structures that had grown out of American automobile culture and main street commerce. His photographs of hotels, motels, diners, service stations, drive-ins and attractions celebrate and capture a unique chapter of American history.
- Checkered Flag Presented to Harry Melling at the Daytona 500, 1985 - Harry Melling, president of Michigan-based automotive supplier Melling Tool, first became involved in NASCAR racing in 1979. Two years later, Melling bought the small team operated by driver Bill Elliott and his family. It was a prosperous union. Elliott won 11 races in the 1985 season, including the Daytona 500, and he won the Cup Series championship in 1988.
- 1985
- Collections - Artifact
Checkered Flag Presented to Harry Melling at the Daytona 500, 1985
Harry Melling, president of Michigan-based automotive supplier Melling Tool, first became involved in NASCAR racing in 1979. Two years later, Melling bought the small team operated by driver Bill Elliott and his family. It was a prosperous union. Elliott won 11 races in the 1985 season, including the Daytona 500, and he won the Cup Series championship in 1988.
- Union 76 Gas Pump, San Luis Obispo, California, 1977 - In the mid-1970s, John Margolies began to assemble a visual record of America's built roadside landscape. Over the following three decades, he traveled thousands of miles to photograph the overlooked and often quickly vanishing structures that had grown out of American automobile culture and main street commerce. His photographs of hotels, motels, diners, service stations, drive-ins and attractions celebrate and capture a unique chapter of American history.
- 1977
- Collections - Artifact
Union 76 Gas Pump, San Luis Obispo, California, 1977
In the mid-1970s, John Margolies began to assemble a visual record of America's built roadside landscape. Over the following three decades, he traveled thousands of miles to photograph the overlooked and often quickly vanishing structures that had grown out of American automobile culture and main street commerce. His photographs of hotels, motels, diners, service stations, drive-ins and attractions celebrate and capture a unique chapter of American history.