Sam at BLAG

New at @sam online, ‘Cinematic Signs: Drive-In Murals Captured by John Margolies’, with a look at 14 of these hand-painted architectural canvases photographed between 1977–1991.

https://bl.ag/cinematic-signs-drive-in-murals-captured-by-john-margolies/

Pictured is the Trail Drive-In, Route 66, Amarillo, Texas, in 1982: https://www.loc.gov/item/2017708223/.

For a regular dose of John Margolies’ wider Library of Congress collection, follow @roadside

#DriveIn #Route66 #Murals #SignPainting #Theaters #Theatres #Trail #Photography #Architecture

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Show threadAlan is @cogdog 🇨🇦6d ago

@blag @sam Thanks from a huge Margolies fan of his roadside photos, the theaters, the parts of Route 66 I knew when I lived in northern Arizona, and especially, the mimetic architecture ones.

https://flickr.com/photos/cogdog/galleries/72157721802834404/

Definitely following @roadside

Mimetic Architecture in the Commons

From the flickr commons, photos of buildings designed to mimic their function, also known as Novelty Architecture en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novelty_architecture

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Show threadSam at BLAG6d ago

@cogdog Here's a little PS to that piece with a link to a book I'm sure you'll enjoy:

https://typo.social/@blag/116732197936754468

Sam at BLAG (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image After posting today’s piece about the murals on drive-in theatres (https://bl.ag/cinematic-signs-drive-in-murals-captured-by-john-margolies/), a subscriber got in touch to tell me about this book on the medium at large: https://gftbooks.com/screen-towers-the-drive-in-theater-in-america/?ref=bl.ag Among the slideshow of photos from Screen Towers by Steve Fitch there are two of the drive-ins that I profiled, but shown at night with their neon in full glow. I've added these as a PS to the original post linked above. #Neon #Signs #Murals #VanNuys #SignPainting #DriveIns #Theaters #Theatres

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Show threadAlan is @cogdog 🇨🇦5d ago
@blag You are right, I will enjoy Screen Towers, thanks https://gftbooks.com/screen-towers-the-drive-in-theater-in-america
Screen Towers: The Drive-In Theater in America – George F. Thompson Publishing