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Book Description: Pleasant Journeys and Good Eats along the Way surveys John Baeder's thirty-five-year obsession with roadside architecture especially, America's diners. The book derives from Baeder's Morris Museum of Art exhibit of the same name. Originally attracted to classic postcard images of mom-and-pop businesses and old black-and-white photos of downtowns, Baeder spent most of his art career depicting these beloved but unpretentious restaurants. Often classified as a photorealist, Baeder has always resisted being labeled. He sees his paintings as a plea for preservation and a way to reveal the psychology behind diners. Before the era of corporate fast food, Americans on the road looked to diners to provide 'meals like mother makes,' a descriptive phrase found in Baeder's very first diner painting. Home cooking was especially appealing to weary tourists, who hit the American highway in increasing numbers between the 1920s and the 1960s. By the late 1970s Baeder's paintings had become wildly popular. Baeder's paintings resonate in melodies of color and line, and exhibit their personalities through hand-lettered placards and neon signs. They invite the viewer to absorb the everyday simplicity of roadside architecture in new ways and to discover the values of hearth and home in unexpected places.

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