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| Motel America: A State-By-State Tour Guide to Nostalgic Stopovers | 
 enlarge | Authors: Andrew F. Wood, Jenny L. Wood
Publisher: Collectors Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (4 reviews)
Sales Rank: 913907
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 112
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.3
ISBN: 1888054913
Dewey Decimal Number: 647
EAN: 9781888054910
ASIN: 1888054913
Publication Date: March 2004
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Product Description
Andrew Wood is back from his ROAD TRIP AMERICA with his latest cross-country, road-tripping adventure: MOTEL AMERICA. Seeking out the charming, funky, and out-of-the-way mom-and-pop motels, MOTEL AMERICA is your off-the-beaten-path inspiration for vacations and weekend getaways with a retro flair. Wood offers up history, highlights, and loads of fun facts about his favorite sleepovers in all 50 states. From charming owners to offbeat locations, each of these motels is sure to make memories. So pack your bags, bring your sense of adventure, and check in to MOTEL AMERICA.
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 Where are the OPEN motels??? January 11, 2006
16 out of 17 found this review helpful
I bought this book because I wanted to go for a vacation while staying at vintage nostalgiac motels. I thought, why not pick up this book, this will be the perfect book, after all its subtitle reads: "A State-By-State Tour Guide to Nostalgic Stopovers"
Little did I realize that I would be wasting my money on a book peppered with very FEW motels that are actually inhabitable because either they were torn down, renovated into something else, or vacant! The author decided to spend a whopping two pages on each state's motels,...TWO PAGES on each state? You're kidding me!!?? To boot, he includes great postcard photos of vintage motels, but doesn't give any info about them 90% of the time!! What the heck is up with this guy! "Oh, here's a great mmotel,...of course I'm not going to actually tell you anything about it though!"
So, tell me how the heck are these, "stopovers" for anyone on a vacation looking for NOSTALGIC STOPOVERS? This book is listed under vacations in many bookstores and online bookstores,....it's 90% useless to anyone actually WANTING to stay at a vintage nostalgiac motel for God's sake! I can think of at least five different motels that ARE in service and date back to at least the 1950's if not earlier in my state alone! Well, after reading this little waste of time, I think I may just see about writing my own Nostalgic Motel travel guide!
Great photos, but then again this isn't a coffee table book of photos,....well, its not supposed to be anyway.
 Not a good book, lacks detail and original content. January 11, 2006
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
This book consists of a 4 page introduction which discusses the history of the subject, with the remainder dedicated to 2 page summaries of the motels in each state of the US. The pictures look mostly to be old postcards with a few original photos thrown in. Clearly the research on each state was not thorough. The few motels that are mentioned are seemingly picked at random, with short shrift given to each one.
Giving my own state of Michigan as an example, the authors picked one gem, The Cadet Motor Inn, and a few other motels along the same highway that were either closed or hardly worth mentioning. Although there are several hundred prime examples of the genre throughout the state that could have been featured, the authors chose instead to make disparaging remarks about the area, referring to Detroit as "the beat up capital of America's nearly pulverized auto industry."
We all realize that we have challenging issues facing many of the urban areas in the industrial states, so the author's commentary is un-needed, ill-advised and out of place. I bought this book because it proposes to be a "tour guide" for those interested in Roadside America and its rich history and traditions. Mentioning a few motels on one stretch of road while cautioning the reader to "not stay long," is hardly useful given the hundreds of wonderful, well-preserved motels throughout the country that are not even mentioned.
 a long day...a long drive...where do we stay? May 2, 2004
1 out of 15 found this review helpful
a road trip full of neon childhood memories...
long day...long drive...where do we stay? May 2, 2004
2 out of 18 found this review helpful
a delightful guide to motels we remember as children...
neon and all!
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