The early 20th-century roadside stops that brewed freedom and community
In the early decades of the 20th century, a small but significant institution bloomed across the American landscape: the rural tea room. Not quite a restaurant, and definitely not a cocktail lounge, these casual, quirky spaces became a meaningful, and surprisingly feminist, cottage industry. Sometimes tucked away inside a home, discovered along a stretch of scenic roadway, they offered women new opportunities both as cons
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