Americans on the Road
From Autocamp to Motel, 1910-1945
by Warren James Belasco
212 pages· 1979
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Using travel magazines, trade journals and diaries, this text explores the use of cars in America and shows how autocamping as an inexpensive, individualistic recreational sport gave birth to the motel, a nationally standardized roadside business.
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