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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 ...
Boise is ranked as the 60th-most expensive city to live in, despite ranking much lower in population than other U.S. cities.
Near city center... TV and Refrigerated Air Conditioning.” [3] Ben H. Ellis owned the motel from 1938 until 1943, and the motel name was changed in the 1940s to Boulevard Mo-Tel. In 1994 the motel became the property of Boise Housing and Community Development, [2] although 1997 is given by the city of Boise as the year of acquisition. [4]
Area affected by the Dust Bowl between 1935 and 1938. Boise City was founded in 1908 by developers J. E. Stanley, A. J. Kline, and W. T. Douglas (all doing business as the Southwestern Immigration and Development Company of Guthrie, Oklahoma) who published and distributed brochures promoting the town as an elegant, tree-lined city with paved streets, numerous businesses, railroad service, and ...
Boise posted notices to vacate at two hotels on airport property. Some long-term residents say they have nowhere else to go. Long-term residents scramble for housing as Boise vacates 2 hotels on ...
New year, same old real estate market: The high mortgage rates, scarce inventory and dismal affordability that have plagued housing look set to linger. NBC Universal 2 months ago The housing ...
The post-war 1950s ushered in a building boom on a massive scale. By 1947, approximately 22,000 motor courts were in operation in the U.S. alone; a typical 50-room motel in that era cost $3000 per room in initial construction costs, compared to $12,000 per room for metropolitan city hotel construction. [12]
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