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Stuckey's

Title
Stuckey's / Tim Hollis.
Author
Hollis, Tim
Publication
  • Charleston, South Carolina : Arcadia Publishing, 2017.
  • ©2017

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Description
95 pages : color illustrations; 23 cm
Summary
"Beginning as a single roadside stand selling pecans in Eastman, Georgia, by the 1950s, the name Stuckey's was synonymous throughout the South with candy, souvenirs, clean restrooms, and the other necessities of automobile travel. During the 1960s, the Stuckey's stores moved into the new frontier of the interstate highways, where quite often they sat alone at the exits like oases in the middle of a desert. Their bright aqua-colored rooftops were a welcome beacon for those who had been driving long distances. Travel has changed a lot since then, but Stuckey's can still be found along the nation's highways, still providing dozens of types of candy and nuts, plus the same mix of souvenirs, as always. Author Tim Hollis has written 30 books on pop culture history, a number of them concerning Southeastern tourism. Stuckey's was a natural topic for him, and he searched corporate archives and private collections to pull together the story of the company's past and present." --
Series Statement
Images of modern America
Uniform Title
Images of modern America.
Subject
  • Stuckey, Williamson Sylvester, 1910-
  • Convenience stores > United States > History
  • Tourism > Southern States > History
  • Convenience stores
  • Tourism
  • Travel
  • Southern States > Description and travel
  • Southern States
  • United States
Genre/Form
History.
Contents
Relax, Refresh, Refuel -- Today the South, Tomorrow the Nation -- The Day I Knew You Were My Pet -- The Sincerest Form of Flattery -- Back from the Brink -- And the Pecans Keep Rolling Along.
ISBN
  • 9781467127981
  • 1467127981
LCCN
2017946345
OCLC
  • on1000050776
  • 1000050776
  • SCSB-9442993
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library