Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Atlanta Cabana Motel was a 200-room motor hotel located at the southwest corner of Peachtree Street and 7th Street in Midtown Atlanta.It opened in 1958 and was razed in 2002; the site is now occupied by the 28-floor Spire residential tower.
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 ...
Later tenants included the "Gypsy Club" (c. 1951–1954), and "The Continental Room" (1954) before returning to the Anchorage name from about 1956 until 1963, when it was briefly known as the "Atlanta Playboy Club", an unofficial attempt to capitalize on the popularity of Hugh Hefner's magazine. A lawsuit closed the Atlanta Playboy Club.
The NASCAR track is opening its campground to those fleeing a hurricane for the sixth time since 2018
Street level view of the Westin Peachtree Plaza Hotel. The first building on the site was the first official Georgia Governor's Mansion in Atlanta, a Victorian-style home purchased by the state in 1870 at the southwest corner of Peachtree Street and Cain Street (later International Boulevard, now Andrew Young International Boulevard).
He's following in the footsteps of Watkins – the first Black woman in Atlanta to become a licensed real estate broker and founder of Lottie Watkins Enterprises in 1960, according to her obituary ...
No race track did a better job last year with its racing product than Atlanta Motor Speedway, and the NASCAR Cup Series could be in for a repeat performance. After the Daytona 500 concluded last ...
It was founded in 1975 in Fort Worth, Texas by Ray Sawyer - who died in 2007 [2] - and Ed Semmler. [3] Unlike most motel chains, it uses a referral chain, thus allowing independent motel operators to use the name. [4]