9780801861093-0801861098-Fast Food: Roadside Restaurants in the Automobile Age (The Road and American Culture)

Fast Food: Roadside Restaurants in the Automobile Age (The Road and American Culture)

ISBN-13: 9780801861093
ISBN-10: 0801861098
Author: Professor John A. Jakle, Professor Keith A. Sculle
Publication date: 1999
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Format: Hardcover 416 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780801861093
ISBN-10: 0801861098
Author: Professor John A. Jakle, Professor Keith A. Sculle
Publication date: 1999
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Format: Hardcover 416 pages

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Fast Food: Roadside Restaurants in the Automobile Age (The Road and American Culture) (ISBN-13: 9780801861093 and ISBN-10: 0801861098), written by authors Professor John A. Jakle, Professor Keith A. Sculle, was published by The Johns Hopkins University Press in 1999. With an overall rating of 4.2 stars, it's a notable title among other Landscape (Architecture, Industries, United States History) books. You can easily purchase or rent Fast Food: Roadside Restaurants in the Automobile Age (The Road and American Culture) (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Landscape books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $2.09.

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Eating on the run has a long history in America, but it was the automobile that created a whole new category of dining: "fast food." In the final volume of their "Gas, Food, Lodging" trilogy, John Jakle and Keith Sculle contemplate the origins, architecture, and commercial growth of fast food restaurants from White Castle to McDonald's.

Illustrated with 217 maps, postcards, photographs, and drawings, Fast Food makes clear that the story of these unpretentious restaurants is the story of modern American culture. The first roadside eateries popularized once-unfamiliar foods -- hamburgers, hot dogs, pizza, milkshakes, burritos -- that are now basic to the American diet. By the 1950s, drive-ins and diners had become icons of rebellion where teenagers sought freedom from adult authority. Like the gas station and the motel, the roadside restaurant is an essential part of the modern American landscape -- where intentional sameness of design "welcomes" every interstate driver.

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