Roadside America Museum in Hillsboro, Texas

Carroll Estes has spent his life fixated on the past. Professionally, he made his living through his restoration shop Carroll’s Classic Auto Body. Personally, he was snapping up pieces of 1950s memorabilia, relics, and iconography before they were even retro, amassing an impressive enough collection by 1975 to begin showing it off to the public. That collection has since grown so massive that it demanded a space of its own — a former Ford dealership in Hillsboro, Texas. The Roadside America Museum is a one-stop shop to sink into warm nostalgia for the golden age of the American road trip, and

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