The Zippo/Case Visitors' Center uses architecture as a clever marketing tool and tourist promotion. The museum and retail store, just outside the commercial district of Bradford, are accessible to travelers along scenic U.S. 6 and U.S. 219. The pale mauve cement-block facility tells the story of the windproof lighter coveted by GI's during World War II and of the
Lu Donnelly et al., "Zippo Museum", [Bradford, Pennsylvania], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/PA-01-MK13.
Buildings of Pennsylvania: Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania, Lu Donnelly, H. David Brumble IV, and Franklin Toker. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2010, 417-418.
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