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The twilight of the mom and pop motel

  • Written by Andrew Wood, Professor of Communication Studies, San José State University
imageThe Wigwam Motel in Holbrook, Arizona, is one of the few remnants of America's mid-20th century motel boom. Library of Congress

In 1939, when John Steinbeck imagined Highway 66 as “the road of flight,” he evoked the crushing realities of Depression-era migrants who’d been pushed off their land by failing crops, relentless dust...

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