Word: motel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Motorists speeding east on U.S. Highway 80 near Fort Worth last week slowed down and gawked at a cluster of ranch-like buildings on the right-hand side of the road. The buildings looked like a motel; but no one had ever seen a motel like Western Hills. When it opens next week, it will offer road-worn motorists 200 air-conditioned rooms and super-suites (many with balconies and wood-burning fireplaces) and a kidney-shaped swimming pool surrounded by bamboo-trimmed cabanas. Guests will be able to get free ice cubes from refrigerators scattered around the motel, have...
...Pile of Bricks." Western Hills is a dazzling example of the vast change which has taken place in the hotel business. Although few big city hotels have been built in the U.S. in the last eleven years, motels and motor courts have mushroomed from 13,521 in 1939 to more than 30,000 in 1950. Said the American Automobile Association: "Everybody who has a pile of bricks and a vacant lot puts up a motel." Often the business consists only of a man & wife who have invested their savings in a few cabins, built up a comfortable living within...
...motel, a traveler got comfortable lodging without battling city traffic, a parking place for his car and dodged the tip-hungry parade of hotel doormen and bellboys. As Miami's Motel Keeper David Lingo put it: "In Florida we have 29 varieties of palms-including the outstretched...
...Prowler makes its principals recognizable human beings who, despite some obvious dialogue and a few unnecessary twists of a sensational plot, stay consistently within their well-drawn characterizations. The cop is a sharp little study in malcontent, cupidity and vulgar taste; his fondest ambition is to own a motel so he can earn money even while he sleeps. Yet he is also a man in love and nagged by some decent urges. Actor Heflin fills the character to the last nuance. The woman, ably played by Actress Keyes, is a pathetic, guilt-ridden dupe who craves nothing more than...
Room Service. In Dallas, when the porter at a motel awakened one of the guests at 6 a.m., as requested, the guest got up, followed the porter to the office, pulled out an automatic, drove away with thee night's receipts...