Guess it's time to go back.

Each focuses on a specific highway and list motel and diner stops.

[1] Example: https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2F...

I should have it done and posted to archive.org this Fall sometime.

It was collected by a private collector in New York then recently sold to the university of Toronto. I first heard about it it maybe a decade ago and have been waiting for a coffee table book since.

I would also be interested in recipes to go with the historic menus. For example dishes with sweet and sour have changed a lot from more liquid and vinagery to the goopy sweet mess we get now.

What is odd about this state of affairs is that everyone wants Mom and Pop, family owned, unique diners, however, where do people go when the kids in the back want their Happy Meals? You always know what you are going to get in a chain, and that is the magic of franchising.