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A photographic collection of old Americana, from vintage cars and old hot rods to classic neon signs and aged barns, these 5,000 images of Americana by Harley-riding Marty Garfinkel, reveal the folk art quickly disappearing from America’s two-lane highways.

Photos of Route 66

Roadside Gallery has a vast selection of nostalgic photos of route 66 and interesting people like Indian Larry. We also have photographs of classic cars, old architecture, and biker photography.

In contrast to the monotonous uniformity of the interstate highway system, the Roadside Gallery celebrates a more playful and polychrome past, a distinctive American landscape populated with mom and pop motels, diners and gas stations, and decorated with vintage brick and wood murals selling long-gone soda drinks, blue jeans and beer.

Interested in more information about our prints? Please call or email and we'll be glad to answer your questions about purchasing our wonderful images of America's road side art. All our Americana nostalgia prints are made with the beautiful giclee process.

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The Curmudgeon Rides Again

Rat Bikes

Smitty the Rat Bike King

Originally the Rat Bike concept involved starting out with a pretty standard bike and slowly, over the years, fixing and rebuilding it until it had become an almost completely different bike. True Rat Bike enthusiasts tend to be more concerned with ingenuity and creativity than flashy chrome. They tend to appreciate fixes to problems that fly in the face of conventional wisdom and so no two Rat Bikes are the same

Recently the Rat Bike aesthetic has been used when building brand new custom bikes and sometimes hard to tell a true Rat Bike from a bike that was just built to look like one. Building a fake rat, as they are called, kind of fly in the face of the organic growth of the whole idea.

Smitty here, has one of the best, true Rat Bikes I’ve ever seen. He loves the thing, it’s like a home to him, and it shows.

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