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Whole communities are utterly dependent on the auto. Wall, S. Dak., a town of 800, boasts four ultramodern motels, three new gas stations, a bevy of postcard stands, a famous drugstore that does more than $1,000,000 worth of business annually and the highest per capita ownership of backyard swimming pools in the state?all because it happens to be handy to the interstate highway that vacationers travel to the Badlands, the Black Hills and Mount Rushmore. Now a local construction firm has postponed building a $300,000, 46-unit motel, and Herb Pantke, 63-year-old attendant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: The Painful Change to Thinking Small | 12/31/1973 | See Source »

Although the original plan was in compliance with the zoning code, the projected height and the signs caused the Harvard Square Development Task Force and the Neighborhood Ten Association to protest construction of the motel...

Author: By Eric M. Breindel, | Title: Reduction In Size Of Building Ends Holiday Inn Fight | 12/11/1973 | See Source »

...RECREATION INDUSTRY faces a steep decline because the country will have to get over its addiction to automobile vacations-while airline flights are being reduced too. Drive-in restaurants, hotel and motel chains and ski resorts are obvious potential sufferers. Though some ski-resort operators remain hopeful, Frederick Andresen, president of Ski Industries America, worried that a mandatory Sunday closing of gas stations may threaten 750,000 jobs and $2 billion in business. Some analysts expect sales of cameras and film to drop, because they are largely bought by vacationers. Las Vegas is still booming; MGM this week will open...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDUSTRY: The Shortage's Losers and Winners | 12/10/1973 | See Source »

...charmed by and had blindly pursued in the name of fame and love of God as but the echo of an echo. The culture I aspired to see clearly would always by drowned by initial perceptions. Sunk beneath the latest translation and the re-re-echo. The Shangri-La Motel but the third version of an ersat movie. Of course the power of the original story remains and a core of great value transmitted, but this perception is not reality...

Author: By Timothy Carlson, | Title: Florida, My Florida | 11/28/1973 | See Source »

...indoor swimming pool and whirlpool saunas, gourmet restaurant and lounge with nightly entertainment and beautifully decorated function space capable of seating 360 persons for business meetings or social activities. The Somerville location is one of 11 Holiday Inns in Massachusetts and New York owned and operated by Northeast Motel Operation, Inc. under a franchise agreement with Holiday Inns...

Author: By A.m. Release, | Title: Local Woman to Direct Somerville Holiday Inn | 11/2/1973 | See Source »

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