Lisa Mahar has accomplished something wonderful in her study of the evolution of motel signs along old US Route 66. The text explores aspects of the guild of industrial signmakers as well as sociocultural reasons signs took the forms they did and is accompanied by the best visual index and cross reference of the myriad lettering styles, symbols and general organization of the signs you could hope to find. The study is interesting and the graphic nature of the book fascinating.

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