From Alpenbrau to Zima, this engaging book features more than 450 color photos of some of the most attractive beer signs ever created and provides an in-depth look at this significant aspect of advertising art. Included are early wood and cardboard signs, animated, hanging, and wall-mounted signs, electric lanterns, and clocks--all presented in alphabetical order according to brand of beer. Special emphasis is given to electric, lighted, and animated signs from 1950-1970, the "Golden Era" of beer signs. Captions provide valuable information on dates, sizes, values, manufacturers, and...

Nashville: Gateway to the South is a unique, thorough, and up-to-date guide to every part of the city. Highlighted are its educational institutions, commerce, music and entertainment, clubs, restaurants, theaters, performance halls, listening rooms, honky-tonks, history, and many annual fairs, shows, and exhibitions.

Since the earliest days of cameras and photography, the idea that an event or a person could somehow be frozen in time and preserved forever has fascinated people. This absorbing book features many of the most famous and historically significant cameras ever produced from the 1930s through the 1990s. Famous American brands such as Imperial, Kodak, Spartus, Polaroid, and Argus are shown, as well as early cameras from Beacon, Packard, and Falcon. Camera types include rangefinder, viewfinder, and single lens reflex, plus foldouts, instants, premiums, plastic art cameras, and even disposables....

Nashville: Gateway to the South is a unique, thorough, and up-to-date guide to every part of the city. Highlighted are its educational institutions, commerce, music and entertainment, clubs, restaurants, theaters, performance halls, listening rooms, honky-tonks, history, and many annual fairs, shows, and exhibitions.

The South's finest and one of America's best-these words have always defined the world-famous Peabody Hotel in Memphis, Tennessee. The Peabody emerged from the war-torn, post-Civil War South in 1869 to become one of the finest hotels in America. Its reputation for comfort, service, and fine dining grew along with Memphis's stature as "the river city, cotton capital, and birthplace of the blues." The most famous and infamous citizens of the era stayed at the original Peabody in its day. There, plantations were won or lost on a roll of the dice. After more than 50 years, the original hotel was...