Title Americans on the road : from autocamp to motel, 1910-1945 / Warren James Belasco

Edition MIT Press paperback edition Published Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [1981] [©1979]

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Description ix, 212 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Contents Preface -- Itinerary -- Gypsying : 1910-1920 -- Cars versus trains : Back to stagecoach days -- Autocamping versus hotels : Back to the family homestead -- From fad to institution : Municipal autocamps, 1920-1924 -- Limiting access : Pay camps, 1923-1926 -- Early motels : 1925-1945 Analysis United States Tourists: Motorists Accommodation, 1910-1945 Notes Includes index Bibliography Bibliography: pages [195]-205 Subject Automobile travel -- History. Automobile travel -- United States -- History. Motels -- United States -- History. Tourist camps, hostels, etc. -- United States -- History. LC no. 79015304 ISBN 0262021234 0262520710 (paperback)

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