The End of the road? The native genius of America’s mid-era automobile culture.
One day I intend to set off on a journey, a long journey through foreign lands, taking lots of amazing pictures (of supermarket aisles and their products) and eventually putting them all together into very tasteful coffee table book (so look out Finland!). On a similar, grander and admittedly more impressive theme author and photographer John Margolies has a similar book out at the moment buts he’s documenting three decades of eye-catching and often rather trippy signs, artifacts and buildings encountered whilst driving over 100,000 miles through the good old US of A. The 400 odd photos in the book are a fascinating look at the more retro, ‘Wonder Years’ kind of America that we all like to think still exists over there, just as your typical American wants the British to live in castles and and still be bang into their jousting. Kistch and informative in equal measures it’s also wonderful example to all corporate wanker architects and dull-as-dishwater shopping centre designers as to just how rubbish their soul-destroying buildings are in comparison. Its made me want to move to Kentucky and create a café shaped like a black-pudding.
I’d dine out in your Black Pudding, sounds good.