Photographer John Margolies spent nearly 40 years documenting what we now know as “roadside Americana”—the gas stations, motels, drive-ins, and diners that attracted road trippers with quirky signs and kooky architecture. In 2017, a year after Margolies died at the age of 76, the Library of Congress made its Margolies holdings available online—more than 11,000 color photos of food-shaped restaurants, catchy neon signs, and an intriguingly large number of dinosaurs.


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https://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/10790

Some artist in North Carolina created a park where dinosaurs were revived to fight in the Civil War. Apparently there's a woman milking a stegosaur in an exhibit.


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