When I travel on Route One, I like to imagine what the road looked like in the 1920’s when it became the nation’s first interstate highway. This trip shows locations in and around Bridgeport where I found images from the early 20th Century and took photos to show what these places look like today. These […]
Meet Yo-Yo, the front man at Yum-Mee Restaurant in Bath. He agreed to be filmed at work because he really wants to go viral. I hope you’ll share this and help him to realize his dream. Yo-Yo has recommendations from the menu, and is an extraordinary ambassador for this special food establishment located on Centre […]
Below the small hamlet of Georgetown, ME, at the South end of the Island, Reid State Park is a 770 acre wild area with an expansive sandy beach worth exploring. You know you’ve come to a place with many options when your first choice from the parking lot is to head to “Half Mile Beach” […]
R.J. Loock & Co. not only distributed parts, they patented and created them and also operated a retail storefront in Baltimore. While there is very little information online about them and the following should be taken with a grain of salt, when I was granted access in 2014 I was told that they operated from […]
The Casino Ballroom in Hampton Beach, NH, is so much bigger on the inside. This venue is located in a fantastic tourist getaway town, right on the beautiful sandy beach. It holds 2,200 concertgoers, so every place you are has an intimate feel. I recently went to see Aaron Lewis and was not sure what […]
Once upon a time, front desk clerks knew how to treat their guests. Just up the road from the sandy, white beaches of Ogunquit, stood a wheel of cheese-shaped building with a big, grey mouse sitting on top. It was easy to spot from a distance, and not so easy to find parking for, since […]
Another throwback image from John Margolies, taken in 1979. You can still get Hardees Hamburgers in Columbia, but this location, alas, has disappeared. No longer “the home of the Huskee”, or the “Huskee Junior”.
Here’s a little neon and a little rust for the nostalgia fans out there! Tucked two short blocks off of the route in “The Hollow” neighborhood of Bridgeport is a place you might still find your next used ride.
“There is a sucker born every minute” is a quote famously attributed to P. T. Barnum. Barnum’s American Museum, opened in 1835 at the corner Broadway & Ann St in New York City was embellished with hoaxes amid real scientific curiosities. One of the boldest hoaxes was the “Feejee Mermaid”- the head of a monkey attached […]
B’nai Jeshurun Synagogue/Hopewell Baptist Church
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