Word: motel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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HOWARD Johnson, the roadside restaurant man, is going into the motel business. He has formed a new company to build and franchise motels, plans to include restaurants in some of the units. The first three will be set up in Florida...
...blonde prostitute named Sandy O'Day, and the three drove to a motor court near St. Louis. Hall tossed $2,480 onto the bed for Hager who counted it and announced the total. Hall, to make it a round figure, added $20. Next morning Hager returned to the motel and picked up Sandy O'Day, who was about to leave for Kansas City, where she was later arrested. She told Hager of seeing a suitcase loaded with money. "There must be a million dollars back there," she said. "Then." said Hager, "I knew I did not have...
...feted at a Waldorf-Astoria dinner. On the way to Hyde Park to lay a wreath at the grave of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Prince and his party got out for a stretch at Shrub Oak, Westchester, were routed by a woman who came flying out of a motel, crying: "You people get off here! Stop taking those pictures! If you don't, I'll call the police." The Prince journeyed on to New England before heading for Detroit and points west...
...American Automobile Association, the Cossets bought a used Chevy (for $1,400) and started off. After years of driving a car in France, they were continually amazed at the courteous, law-abiding U.S. motorist (by contrast, "Anarchy and chaos prevail on the roads of France"). Stopping at a motel, the Cossets discovered that not all the patrons were bona fide tourists: "In fact, [motels] seem to solve delicate problems for people anxious not to offend the puritanism of cities...
Traveling Man. In Portland, Ore., missing from home for a day and a half, eight-year-old Richard Warwick was finally found several miles away when he pedaled a pilfered tricycle up to the Maynard Motel, flashed a $26 bankroll, asked for a room for the night...