Roadhouse
The term roadhouse is common for rest stops in English-speaking countries. Depending on the country, different forms of these rest stops or rest houses have developed differently historically and due to regional conditions. In the broadest sense, these are service stations that can be compared with German motorway service stations today , although there are considerable differences in this regard in the countries listed below.
Australia
A roadhouse in Australia is, in the broadest sense, a rest stop that includes a gas station and vehicle repair shop with an attached restaurant or café . Often there is also a post office in a roadhouse. These roadhouses are located on highways between cities for the transit traffic of trucks, buses and automobiles. In the restaurants or cafés, warm meals are offered to travelers and, due to the lack of infrastructure in less populated areas, they often offer overnight accommodation in connected motels or on campsites .
USA and Canada
In the USA and Canada is a roadhouse or roadhouse a restaurant or restaurant, where (especially at night) food is served. Most of these catering establishments also have a bar and offer music and dance or opportunities for competitions. As in Australia, most of the houses are along the highways outside the cities. In the past, the roadhouses also offered overnight accommodation, nowadays this is less and less the case.
Alaska and Yukon
In Alaska and on the Yukon River , roadhouses have been used since 1890 as stations for sled dogs , horses, snowshoe - and skiers, and hikers looking for a place to stay for hot meals and overnight stays. At the Klondike Highway , some of these historic roadhouse have been preserved. (See also: Robinson Roadhouse .) Nowadays the roadhouses of Alaska can be compared with those in the USA and Canada.
Culture: songs and films
The roadhouse were sung in many songs, such as by the rock group The Doors in 1969 in the Roadhouse Blues or the single of 1990, Lone Star Roadhouse , by Mick Taylor , also Roadhouses come in many Anglo-American films, such as in The Wild One with Marlon Brando and in the Easy Rider with Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper .
Several films have a relation to the Roadhouses, so Road House with Richard Widmark from 1948, Road House with Patrick Swayze from 1989 and its sequel Road House 2 from 2006. There is also the action film Roadhouse 66 from 1984 with Willem Dafoe .
There is a roadhouse band in the USA .
Many of the roadhouses are located on scenic sections of roads in the respective countries.