Title & Author:

Looking beyond the highway : Dixie roads and culture / edited by Claudette Stager and Martha Carver.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, ©2006.

Description:

xxi, 298 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The best road south : the failure of the Dixie Highway in Indiana / Suzanne Fischer -- Drivin' the Dixie Highway in Tennessee / Martha Carver -- Sidebar : Tennessee Highway Patrol Building, Rockwood / Amanda Regier -- Heading south without getting sidetracked : the Dixie Highway in Georgia / Jeffrey L. Durbin -- Sidebar : Atlanta campaign waysides / Tara Mitchell Mielnik -- Pleasing the eye : brick paving and the Dixie Highway in the Sunshine State / Walter S. Marder -- Connecting the east and west coasts : the Taimiami [sic] Trail of the Sunshine State / Carrie Scupholm -- The Dollarway Road and road improvement districts in Arkansas, 1913-1921 / Christie H. McLaren -- The daughters of the American Revolution : Roane F. Byrnes, and the birth of the Natchez Trace Parkway / Sara Amy Leach -- Roadside luxury : urban hotels and modern streets along the Dixie Highway / R. Stephen Sennott -- Tourist lodging in the Great Smoky Mountains and the transition from regional to national style / Blythe Semmer -- Myrtle Beach : music and motels / Katherine Fuller -- Caving and clogging : keepin' cool in Tennessee's caves / Ruth Nichols Keenoy and Robbie D. Jones -- Park 'n' pray : an examination of drive-in religion in Florida / Carrie Scupholm -- Get right with God : Harrison Mayes's advertising campaign for the Lord / Martha Carver -- Buy one, get two free : fireworks / Karl Puljak -- Sidebar : fireworks / Tammy Allison -- Viewpoints and points of view : Florida's early tourist towers / Kimberly D. Hinder -- Seeing the scenic Upland South : mother nature and the morphology of tourist landscapes / Kevin J. Patrick -- Pilgrimage route to paradise : the sacred and profane along the Dixie Highway / Robert M. Craig.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents

ISBN:

1572334673 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
9781572334670 (hardcover ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Roadside architecture Southern States.
Constructions des abords de route États-Unis (Sud)
Manners and customs
Roadside architecture
Travel
Architektur
Unterhaltung
Kultur
Straße
Straßenbau
Southern States Description and travel.
Southern States Social life and customs.
Dixie Highway History.
Dixie Highway Description and travel.
États-Unis (Sud) Descriptions et voyages.
Dixie Highway Histoire.
Dixie Highway Descriptions et voyages.
Southern States
United States Dixie Highway
USA Südstaaten
USA / Südstaaten.

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Stager, Claudette.
Carver, Martha, 1954-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 258820
Call No.: F216.2 .L66 2006
Status: Available