From Somewhere to Nowhere

From Somewhere to Nowhere

From Somewhere to Nowhere

Know Your Data, Know Your Story

John Margolies was an architectural critic, photographer, and author who was noted for celebrating vernacular and novelty architecture in the United States, particularly those designed as roadside attractions. Starting in 2007, the Library of Congress began to acquire his photographs, and created the public domain John Margolies Roadside America Photograph Archive in 2016, consisting of 11,710 scans of color slides taken by Margolies.
 
I found these scans online thanks to the Library of Congress and Flickr. With all these golden nuggets of nostalgia just waiting to be discovered, I figured this would make for a fun little website. The goal is to make it feel as if you were in the 70s or 80s as you take in the slides and read about the background.

John Margolies was an architectural critic, photographer, and author who was noted for celebrating vernacular and novelty architecture in the United States, particularly those designed as roadside attractions. Starting in 2007, the Library of Congress began to acquire his photographs, and created the public domain John Margolies Roadside America Photograph Archive in 2016, consisting of 11,710 scans of color slides taken by Margolies.
 
I found these scans online thanks to the Library of Congress and Flickr. With all these golden nuggets of nostalgia just waiting to be discovered, I figured this would make for a fun little website. The goal is to make it feel as if you were in the 70s or 80s as you take in the slides and read about the background.

John Margolies was an architectural critic, photographer, and author who was noted for celebrating vernacular and novelty architecture in the United States, particularly those designed as roadside attractions. Starting in 2007, the Library of Congress began to acquire his photographs, and created the public domain John Margolies Roadside America Photograph Archive in 2016, consisting of 11,710 scans of color slides taken by Margolies.
 
I found these scans online thanks to the Library of Congress and Flickr. With all these golden nuggets of nostalgia just waiting to be discovered, I figured this would make for a fun little website. The goal is to make it feel as if you were in the 70s or 80s as you take in the slides and read about the background.

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