Margaret Foster
Margaret Foster is the editor of <em>Preservation</em> Online.
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Margaret Foster is the editor of Preservation magazine's website, a publication of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
What We Talk About When We Talk About 11th-Hour Preservation
My friend Wes was talking about a burger joint. Wes is from Texas, so sometimes that gives him the right. <div> <br /> <div> <br /> <div> The Beef Burger Barrel, a barrel-shaped hunk of roadside architecture in Amarillo, <a href="http://www.preservationnation.org/magazine/2007/todays-news-2007/60-year-old-texas-eatery.html">closed last month</a> after 60-odd years of hamburger heaven. </div> <div> <br /> </div> <div> <br /> </div> <div> "It wasn't beloved until everyone heard it was closing," Wes told me. The Barrel started out selling A&W root beer on Route 66 in the 1930s and was rolled later to a less-traveled part of town. Now locals are trying to find a way to reopen Amarillo's quirkiest building. </div> <div> <br /> </div> <div>