Larry Cultrera

Classic Diners of Massachusetts

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktdetails

• American Palate
• Verlag: History Press
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: November 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 150mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 249g
• ISBN-13: 9781609493233
• ISBN-10: 1609493230
• Artikelnr.: 34106183

Autorenporträt

Larry Cultrera is an archivist/photographer of the American roadside, specializing in documenting the American diner through his photographs. He is a longtime member of the Society for Commercial Archeology (SCA). Since October 2007, Cultrera has authored the Diner Hotline Weblog (dinerhotline.wordpress.com), which is a continuation of a column he penned for the SCA's Journal Magazine for over eighteen years. He has been researching diners and their history since 1980, although he can trace his interest back to his childhood in Medford, Massachusetts. Cultrera has been featured on various TV shows that covered the subject of diners, such as CBS Sunday Morning with Charles Kuralt and Bob Elliot Presents New England Diners (WCSH Channel 6, Portland, Maine), which also ran on cable TV's Discovery Channel. He has been interviewed for numerous newspaper and magazine articles including the Boston Globe, the Syracuse [New York] Post Standard and the Portland [Maine] Press Herald, as well as Smithsonian Magazine, Insight Magazine and Yankee Magazine. He also conducts popular slide presentations on subjects such as the history of diners entitled "From Lunch Carts to Mega Restaurants, 1872 to the Present--The Ever-Changing Appearance of the American Diner.