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...Basin (pop. 250). From far & near came hundreds of bent, gnarled and crippled men & women, mostly victims of some variety of arthritis, all pathetically seeking a magical cure. Many thought they were benefited. Undoubtedly benefited were the owners of two abandoned silver mines, hotel and motel keepers, beanery proprietors and taxi drivers. Boulder and Basin had not seen the like since the bonanza days of the 1890s...
...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...
Home of Crime. By 1939, the U.S. motel business had a $37-million-a-year gross and a rough reputation. During the 30s, such gangsters as John Dillinger and Pretty Boy Floyd leased entire motels, used them as hideouts; many a motor-court operator reckoned the difference between profit & loss in the "two-hour-tourist" or "hot-pillow" trade. FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover blasted the entire industry: "The tourist camp is today a new home of crime in America, a new home of disease, bribery, corruption, crookedness, rape, white slavery, thievery and murder...
...respectable motor-court operators banded together in such organizations as the United Motor Courts and the American Motor Hotel Association, quickly cleaned up the trade. Now, the good motels bar local Romeos, offer special features to attract not only overnight travelers, but vacationing families who prefer informal, inexpensive living to dressing up in a hotel. Max Mosko's Hi-Way Motel in Denver has a fenced-in playground for children and a day nursery with a free doll-lending service. Many Florida motels greet customers with a free glass of orange juice; in Dallas, the Town House gives guests...