Home away from home : motels in America / John Margolies.

Main entry:

Margolies, John.

Title & Author:

Home away from home : motels in America / John Margolies.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

Description:

127 pages : color illustrations ; 24 x 27 cm

Notes:
"A Bulfinch Press book."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-127).
Home Away From Home -- Auto Camping -- Cabins and Courts -- Anatomy of a Motel -- The Early Chains -- Motels and Motor Inns -- Franchised Motels.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

In lively text and more than 250 photographs, most in color, Margolies brings to life the new style of lodging that sprang up to serve the automobile traveler, from auto camps and mom-and-pop tourist cabins early in the century to today's familiar motel chains. Along the way, he highlights many of the services and amenities - the decor, the swimming pools, the restaurants, and the pulsating signs - used to lure motorists into the nearest Kozy Kottage. He has discovered motels both marvelous and bizarre: log cabins, teepees, and even railroad freight cars transformed into sleeping cars. And he explores how the image of the motel in America has evolved - from seedy shacks to picturesque courts to today's antiseptic but very comfortable way stations. Throughout, Margolies combines his signature photographs of hostelries past and present with rare postcards, vintage brochures, and other amusing artifacts. Home Away From Home is a surprising and entertaining look at an omnipresent phenomenon, a nostalgic tour of sleepless nights and sweet dreams along the highways and byways of America.

ISBN:

0821221620
9780821221624

Subject:

Motels United States History.
Motels United States Pictorial works.
Roadside architecture United States Pictorial works.
Motels États-Unis Histoire.
Motels États-Unis Ouvrages illustrés.
Constructions des abords de route États-Unis Ouvrages illustrés.
Motels.
Roadside architecture.
Hotels United States History.
United States.
Geschichte

Form/genre:

illustrated books.
Illustrated works.
History.
Pictorial works.
Ouvrages illustrés.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 81535
Call No.: ID:95-B2713
Status: Available

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