Spending the Night on the Pike : A Postcard History of Motels Along Us Highwa...

by Tim O'gorman

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Spending the Night on the Pike : A Postcard History of Motels Along Us Highway 1 from Richmond to Petersburg 1, Paperback by O'Gorman, Tim, ISBN 1482771543, ISBN-13 9781482771541, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US "Staying here tonight. A beautiful motel as most of them are and there are so many." So wrote a traveler spending a night at a motel between Richmond and Petersburg, Virginia writing home on the motel's postcard in 1955. . Highway 1, before the arrival of Interstate 95, was considered America's Main Street, the most heavily traveled highway on the east coast, running from the Canadian border in Maine to Key West, Florida. In 2010, Highway 1 was designated an Historic Highway. The stretch of highway between Richmond and Petersburg, long known locally as the Richmond-Petersburg Turnpike, or "Pike" for short, was an important stopover for tourists driving to and from Florida and the number, and variety, of travel accommodations attest to the Pike's popularity. Using over 160 postcards along with over 55 other images including some provided by the Virginia Department of Historic Resources and the Chesterfield County Historical Society, th provides a history of motels, tourist courts, tourist camps, etc. that flourished along Historic Highway 1 from 1920 to 1975. But Spending the Night on the Pike is not a history of postcards. It is a history of what postcards tell us about travelers in the first half of the 20th century and of the evolution of the lodging that acc

• Publisher: CreateSpace
• Year: 2013
• Binding: Paperback
• ISBN: 9781482771541
• Condition: Fine

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