Americana Century is the first Rooted & Remembered collection — a hundred years of the American road and its neon, told three ways. More collections (other byways, other vanishing places) follow.
Every sign, motel, and diner enters once — observed and pinned to the map. Then the same data is read three different ways, each its own product.
Three of the four states are a kind of keeping. We track the loss to fight it — and the comebacks to celebrate them.
Every neon sign in America — still lit, relit, relocated, or lost — mapped across the century. The archive of the light we're losing, and the light we're getting back.
The Route 66 neon night-drive — the Mother Road after dark, time-boxed to the Centennial. Where the archive becomes a trip.
The living Route 66 trip planner — diners, motor courts, roadside giants, and neon. The Mother Road, finally plannable instead of paper.
Americana Century is one collection inside Rooted & Remembered. Other byways and historic places become their own collections later.
They aren't three codebases. They're one place-intelligence engine (Habitus) with three settings turned differently — so the family is consistent without being identical.
The warm Rooted & Remembered register — and the night vs. daytime mood each product lives in.
Echoes leads Tempo (across time); Neon Mile & Get Your Kicks lead Scenario (the trip).
Neon night vs. open-road daytime — and the filter that rides along: signs, corridor, or the whole road.
Our first neon app stalled — and that's the most useful part of the story. We're documenting the dead ends alongside the wins, because the re-think is what made the real thing possible.
Mile by mile, all the way to the stage at BUILD with Mapbox — Sept 15–17, 2026.
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