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The Motel Inn (originally known as the Milestone Mo-Tel), located in San Luis Obispo, California, United States, was the first "motel" in the world, and the origin of that word, from "Mo-Tel", which is a play on the word "hotel" by combining the words "motor hotel". [1] It opened on December 12, 1925, [2] [3] and closed in 1991. The Apple Farm ...
Arthur S. Heineman (1878–1974) [1] was the inventor and primary architect of the world's first motel, the Motel Inn. It was originally called the Milestone Mo-Tel and is located in San Luis Obispo, California. It opened on December 12, 1925. [2]
The first motel in the world is the Motel Inn of San Luis Obispo, California. [1] [2] Several historic motels are listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places, the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation.
Miami. This location calls itself a hotel, but it has classic motel beginnings (and the sign out front still says "motel"). Initially opened in 1953, the Vagabond was a Floridian basecamp for Rat ...
In some cases, historic properties have been allowed to slowly decay. The Motel Inn of San Luis Obispo, which (as the Milestone Motor Hotel) was the first to use the "motel" name, sits incomplete with what is still standing left boarded up and fenced off at the side of U.S. Route 101; a 2002 restoration proposal [35] never came to fruition. [36]
As of August 2022, the most expensive motel in the entire Motel 6 chain was the first one in Santa Barbara, California. [19] It had charged $6 per night before taxes for a room when it first opened in 1962. [19] Sixty years later, during the late summer of 2022, the first Motel 6 was reportedly charging $426 per night for a room, before taxes. [19]
Holiday Inn Jr. was a motel brand during the 1960s and 1970s with just 44 to 48 guest rooms and limited amenities. The first such location opened in Camden, Arkansas in 1964. [24] The last hotel to operate under the Holiday Inn Jr. name was in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, which remained in operation until it burned down in 1979. [25]
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