Word: motel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...million dollar motel, completely financed by the Harvard Trust, is expected to open early in 1968 on the 1.5 acre site formerly occupied by Richards Drive-In Restaurant. It will contain 203 guest rooms, a 200-seat restaurant, a rooftop swimming pool, and a two-level parking...
Alfred Clifford, vice president and real estate officer of the Harvard Trust, said that the excellent location was what sold the bank on the idea. The motel will be directly accessible from the Cambridge-Allston exit of the Massachusetts Turn-pike extension...
...next day's Delano Record stressed that these results were still unofficial, but the Teamster trucks were conspicuously missing from their places at the motel, and the Teamsters office on Main Street was closed...
...Sylviane Mathieu, a pretty blonde doctor from Limoges, found that she could get by on $10 a day for food and accommodations after having budgeted $15. Foreigners complain that there are no middle-priced hotels in many U.S. cities: only the expensive and the grubby. By contrast, the motel-"the word that blisters the night sky of the American suburbs in vermilion, green and harlequin Catherine wheels," as Kenneth Allsop wrote in Punch-is widely appreciated as a sybaritic haven of sterilized glasses, heaped towels, ice-cube machines and coffeemakers...
Operators, who were instructed to stay with the call until it had been relayed to the police or fire department, logged 48 emergency calls in the first three days. A motel owner rushed to a pay booth to report that a guest had left without paying his parking fee; teen-agers were fighting in a street; suspected robbers were seen breaking into a store; and one, fire was spotted...