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This is a list of motels.A motel is lodging designed for motorists, and usually has a parking area for motor vehicles. Entering dictionaries after World War II, the word motel, coined in 1925 as a portmanteau of motor and hotel or motorists' hotel, referred initially to a type of hotel consisting of a single building of connected rooms whose doors faced a parking lot and, in some circumstances ...
The first single from the album was "Shame", which reached No. 21 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 10 on the Top Rock Tracks chart in the U.S. [17] Two other singles were taken from the album: the title track "Shock" and "Icy Red", with the former peaking at No. 84 on the Billboard chart. From early 1986 to February 1987, The Motels worked on ...
By the 1990s, Motel 6 and Super 8 were built with inside corridors (so were nominally hotels) while other former motel brands (including Ramada and Holiday Inn) had become mid-price hotel chains. Some individual franchisees built new hotels with modern amenities alongside or in place of their former Holiday Inn motels; by 2010 a mid-range hotel ...
Martha Emily Davis (born January 19, 1951) is an American rock and new wave singer-songwriter from Berkeley, California.She is most famous for being the lead singer of the band The Motels, but has also made several solo albums, contributed many songs to motion pictures, been on television, and worked onstage with Teatro ZinZanni.
The one big difference, though, was Scottish Inns were built from modules constructed in plants in either Tennessee or Florida and shipped to the motel sites. This concept was possibly considered the lowest price for a constructed motel room at $6,000 each (installed) and in 1972 they could be produced at a rate of about one room per hour.
Rolling Stone – The Motels return with their "Version 2.0" – September 2, 1999; Orange County Register – Entertainment section – July 16, 2005; Personal writings from band members – Official website themotels.com; Former band member Marty Jourard – Jourard.com; Creem – Take the El out of Motels and it's Mots – February 1983
In 2015, Marriott International acquired the chain, making Marriott the largest full service hotel company in Canada. [17] Augmenting the exclusively Canadian properties, [18] two US ones were added in 2016. [19] US properties now outnumber Canadian ones. [1] International expansion was first to Shanghai, then Frankfurt. [20]
Motel (Schilde), of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany, tributary of the Schilde; Motel (Warnow), of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany, tributary of the Warnow; Motal, also called Motol or Motele, a township in Belarus; Saint-Georges-Motel, a commune in the Eure department of France