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Chargement... Home Away From Home: Motels in America (édition 1995)par John Margolies
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. I've wanted to read a book like this for years, as I'm the type of person who goes by a motel in the middle of nowhere and wonders about who lives there and when was it built and why has it survived when so many don't. And I love the old neon signs created from the boom after WWII up through the 60's. This book features photos of some of the remaining motels like that, many still standing but long abandoned. It includes the history of the motel in America, along with the history of "auto camping", tourist cabins and franchised motels like Holiday Inn. Also included is a section on the gloriously tacky Madonna Inn of San Luis Obispo. Home Away From Home: Motels in America is a fun, retro look at motels, camps, cabins and such beginning in the early 20th century. Full of bright, glossy photos of classic motel signs, early brochures and unusual, themed motels (wigwams, trains, even trees). With chapters from Auto Camping to Franchised Motels, it is an interesting look at a time when people thought about the journey, not just the destination. This book makes me want to buy big sunglasses, rent a vintage convertible and go on a road trip, gas prices be damned! aucune critique | ajouter une critique
In lively text and more than 250 photographs, most in color, Margolies brings to life the new style of lodging that sprang up to serve the automobile traveler, from auto camps and mom-and-pop tourist cabins early in the century to today's familiar motel chains. Along the way, he highlights many of the services and amenities - the decor, the swimming pools, the restaurants, and the pulsating signs - used to lure motorists into the nearest Kozy Kottage. He has discovered motels both marvelous and bizarre: log cabins, teepees, and even railroad freight cars transformed into sleeping cars. And he explores how the image of the motel in America has evolved - from seedy shacks to picturesque courts to today's antiseptic but very comfortable way stations. Throughout, Margolies combines his signature photographs of hostelries past and present with rare postcards, vintage brochures, and other amusing artifacts.Home Away From Home is a surprising and entertaining look at an omnipresent phenomenon, a nostalgic tour of sleepless nights and sweet dreams along the highways and byways of America. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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I have to say that I was disappointed in the photography. I was expecting more and larger photographs from a John Margolies book. This definitely focuses more on narrative than other books of his that I've read.
Having just finished reading Overground Railroad: The Green Book Roots of Black Travel in America, I couldn't help but think of the struggles of black folks throughout the 20th century in their desires to travel and get a good night's sleep. I wonder how many of the cabins, tourist courts, and motels in this book did not allow African Americans lodging. Of course, that perspective is completely erased from this book, as it assumes that the "default American traveler" is white. ( )