The Hagley Postcards of Motels and Roadside Attractions Collection, contains a postcard of the original location and possibly first building of the first hotel in the Holiday Inn hotel chain. An archivist notes that the inn was “designed to be clean and predictable.” On the back of the card includes the text, “450 Rooms – 450 Baths – 100% Air-Conditioned – Steam Heat – Pleasure Eating – Bridal Suite – Free Swimming Pool for Guests Only. Your Host from Coast-to-Coast.”
January 2009
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Sun 11 Jan 2009
Your Host From Coast to Coast
Posted by Kathryn della Bitta under eternity, event, everyday life, forgetting, future, home, mobility, modernity, nation, pleasure, power, rhythm, space, standardization, technology, totalities, universality, valueNo Comments
Sun 11 Jan 2009
The Box of Oranges I Promised You From California
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The Hagley Library Postcards of Motels and Roadside Attractions Collection includes the postcard “Greetings from California” circa 1941. On the back of the card are the words, “California’s famous orange industry produced forty-six million boxes of this golden fruit last year. The large Navel orange (seedless) is a native of California, and prized the world over for its fine flavor.“
Sun 11 Jan 2009
China city, back of the postcard
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Description on back of a postcard of “Plaza in China City, Los Angeles” circa 1930: “Interesting shops displaying everything from genuine Chinese art to curios and firecrackers, and numerous restaurants serving delicately flavored Chinese food, attract throngs of visitors to China City, in Los Angeles.” Found in the Hagley Library Postcards of Motels and Roadside Attractions Collection.
Sun 11 Jan 2009
Taller than the Washington Monument
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In the Hagley Postcards of Motels and Roadside Attractions Collection, there is a postcard of “America’s Tallest Radio Tower, 878 feet, Nashville, Tennessee. 323 Feet Higher Than the Washington Monument” circa 1940.