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Roadside AttractionsSocial Studies · US History · Grades 6–8Lesson plan

Follow the highways of the 1920s and 1930s, exploring the whimsical, extravagant architecture that came with American auto culture. Objective 1. To explain the impact the automobile had on business as merchants and city leaders strove to gain financially from increased automobile traffic during the 1920s and 1930s; 2. To define and explain the motivation for literalism in advertising, place-product-packaging, and boosterism, and to compare current examples with those of the 1920s and 1930s; 3. To identify local structures that reflect "novelty" architecture; 4. To list the changes that auto cu Duration: 90 Minutes.

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