Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 37. Chapters: 66 Motel (Needles), Alamo Plaza Hotel Courts, Aztec Motel, Belvidere Cafe, Motel, and Gas Station, Blue Bonnet Court, Blue Swallow Motel, Boots Motel, Border Inn, Caribbean Motel, Chateau Bleu Motel, Coral Court Motel, Econo Lodge, El Rancho Hotel & Motel, Holiday Inn, Knights Inn, Loveless Cafe, Madonna Inn, Motel 6, Motel Inn of San Luis Obispo, Munger-Moss Motel, National Civil Rights Museum, Rodeway Inn, Star Lite Motel, The Caravelle Resort, The Flanders Hotel, The Gobbler, Thunderbird Motel, Wagon Wheel, Oxnard, California, Wagon Wheel Motel, Cafe and Station, Wigwam Motel, Wildwoods Shore Resort Historic District. Excerpt: The Alamo Plaza Hotel Courts brand was the first motel chain in the United States of America, founded by Edgar Lee Torrance in Waco, Texas in 1929. By 1955 there were more than twenty Alamo Plazas across the southeastern US, most controlled by a loosely-knit group of a half-dozen investors and operating using common branding or architecture. Alamo Plaza Courts in WacoMarketed as "Alamo Plaza Tourist Apartments" using distinctive Mission Revival Style architecture, each formed a U-shaped court with multiple buildings fronted by a distinctive facade which mimics the face of the Alamo Mission in San Antonio. These properties attempted to distinguish themselves from other motels or cabins of the tourist courts of their era by introducing amenities such as telephones in each room (1936), Beautyrest mattresses on every bed and later swimming pools and televisions in rooms. The roadside tactic of using distinctive, non-standard architecture to catch the attention of passing motorists would later be used by other chains, such as the Wigwam Motels which served U.S. Route 66 travellers or the easily-recognised orange rooftops of the original Howard Johnson chain. While the chain's expansion...