Early American chain restaurants sprang up along western rail routes and in northeastern cities. As competition grew fierce, entrepreneurs attempted to attract motorists and pedestrians by way of startling facades and, eventually, entire structures that served as veritable billboard advertisements. In this book, Philip Langdon argues that restaurant design and décor act as barometers of public sentiment. During the 1960s, for example, decisions made by community review boards, municipal planners, and restaurant designers were affected by the social unrest of that era, regardless of whether the sources of their attitudes and tastes were consciously acknowledged. Langdon traces the origin and growth of chain restaurants from the 1870s to the mid-1980s, while offering some conclusions about their meaning. Such restaurants as Chock Full O'Nuts, Howard Johnson's, White Castle, McDonald's, and others are the focus of this book.

"Orange Roofs, Golden Arches: the Architecture of American Chain Restaurants" is a fascinating work written for the student of popular architecture. Langdon's sources are largely primary, based, for example, on telephone and personal interviews with founders, designers, and executives associated with chain restaurants. His secondary sources include restaurant, business, architectural, and general-interest periodicals. This work is both well-illustrated and well-written.

It is a wonderful pictorial view of Orange. It brought back many memories and helped me to finally visualize places my grandmother, and parents have so often spoke of.

This fable is common throughout Ethiopia, Eritrea and surrounding countries and the author choose this Ethiopian version to write.

The wonderful images along with simple beautiful text which includes some Ethiopian words is just lovely.

It tells the story of a orphan girl Tshai, her selfless gift to the countries ruler and the darstadly thinking of the wicked Jib. The telling is enhanced by the legend of Ethiopian pronounciations and all round is a lovely addition your library if like me you have an Ethiopian child in your home.

This is a wonderful new book for your poke-loving children. There are pokemon to colour, matching pokemon to find and many more activities. The sides are perforated, so you even can put them on the wall after finshing your favourite one. But the best thing is: There are two collectible magnets attached to each book of this new series! Your children will love this book!

I love Princess of Orange very much. I once borrowed it in our school library, 2 years ago. I had read it twice because the story is so beautiful. It's like a fairy tale romance. Beautiful Princess Mary didnt want to marry Prince William at first (she was only 15 back then) so made herself ugly but William saw the real her first and fell in love. Anyway, the story is sooo beautiful. I think they're so sweet when they got married. There are lots of beautiful lines in the book hat i had memorized a few of them. (...)

If you are a parent who is a cat owner then you must buy this book for yourself or your children. The illustrations are humorous and the storyline is one that any cat-owner can relate to. Anyone who owns a lazy, crazy cat will enjoy reading this book. It's especially suitable for those who like to spoil and cater to their cat's whims and idiosyncrasies.

This 2 book series tells about Orange County's fascinating history of it's railroads. It's very detailed about the lines, what ran on them and what was moved, around here it was mostly food!
Many photos from the later 1800s showing Orange County how it used to look.(When El Toro was El Toro and NOT Lake Forest)It's fun recognising from newer pictures the areas known to me.

If you can find this book, it's great. An Orange County railfan's must in their collection!

I bought this book at LA Airport just before flying to the UK, and I have to say that reading it made short of the long journey.  I read it in one go, and my outbursts of snickering and laughing must have had my fellow travellers wondering if I was a few oranges short of the pound.
 
This book is unique in the travel genre in that the writer has a wonderful ability to tell his story as though it were a novel instead of just a travelogue.  His sharply-observed portrayal of rural Majorcan characters and his vivid descriptions of the island's scenery and cuisine are so realistic that you can almost feel the sunshine, taste the food and smell the orange blossom.
 
I enjoyed the book so much that I bought the sequel, 'Manana, Manana', as soon as I arrived in the UK, and it lived up to my expectations and more.  Next day I booked my first vacation to Majorca, and I can't wait to visit the places so graphically depicted in these books.  You can bet I'll be first in line to buy the third in the series whenever it's published.  Estupendo, Don Pedro!

Wow! I'm impressed with the "look" of this book. I put this on my coffee table and most of my friends usually look through it to find the best beach for whatever. My wife uses it to find easy access to kids beaches.

We, my dude friends and I, are currently visiting all the surf locations in the book. I must say it is right on the money. Great reference book to find favorite surf locations. These girls must have done some serious surfing or knew some serious surfers. Kowabunga chicks! Can you write one on San Diego?

Tony DeLap joined with other American artists of the mid-twentieth century to develop "minimalism" as he explored forms of painting and sculpture with meticulous attention to construction and intellectual precision. DeLap drew from a wide range of materials in his work, including wood, painted canvas, plastic, lacquer, aluminum, fiberglass, and Plexiglas. He came to prominence when his work was included in two significant exhibitions that helped to define the Minimalist movent in 1966 (Primary Structures, New York Jewish Museum) and 1967 (American Sculpture of the Sixties, Los Angeles County Museum of Art). Enhanced with an informative introduction by Naomi Vine, Bruce Guenther and Peter Plagens' Tony Delap is a complete and satisfying introduction to a major American artistic talent as well as a very highly recommended addition to any personal, academic, or community library American art history collection.