A favorite Rt 66 pic & vintage hotel-motels

[ScarredKnightfan]

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During my September 2009 Route 66 road trip, I took ~900 photographs, but this, from Day 7, 09/11/2009, is 1 of my favorites:

http://www.oldcarsstronghearts.com/2015/07/28/tuesday-trip-28/

 

The only road trip I took during which I stayed in many hotel-motels was my Route 66 journey; the rest of my road trips 2002-2011 were done staying with family & friends.  Thus, I did not spend much time in these vintage places during my travels: Holiday Inn, Howard Johnsons, Sheraton & Travelodge

http://www.oldcarsstronghearts.com/2015/07/28/automotive-daily-191/

 

BTW, the featured vintage ads last week:

Train Tuesday (auto-train, GM, Hiawatha & Southern Pacific)

Flying Thursday (Delta, Mexicana, Northwest, Pan American)

Boating Saturday (Chris-Craft, Evinrude, Johnson, Ranger)

 

 

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[Guest Bob Call]

Your pic of the motel ads reminded me of the early 60's. Wife and I traveled all over US and Quebec with about $100 cash and 2 "gas" credit cards. BankAmerica Card was just starting and Master Charge was few years away. Rich people had Diners Club and American Express. We weren't rich.

Had a Gulf Oil Corporation card that was accepted at all Gulf stations in US and Canada, Union 76 stations and Holiday Inns. Other card was Skelly Oil Company card (my mother and I both were Skelly employees). The Skelly card was accepted by Skelly throughout the middle of US, at Pure Oil stations, Chevron (later Unocal) stations, Standard of Kentucky (later Ashland Oil) stations, Tidewater (Tydol Flying A) stations, Richfield Oil stations and in Canada at Imperial Oil stations. We charged everything possible on the two "gas cards".

The cash was for meals we couldn't charge and little souvenirs to take home. The Skelly card had a unique number that identified employees and back then a lot of the Skelly station operators would advance cash on the card.

I still have a Chevron Texaco card as a result of getting a Gulf card in 1962. Gulf was merged into Chevron, and, Tidewater became Getty then Skelly and Getty were merged, later acquired by Texaco and then Texaco was acquired by Chevron.

Living on Route 66 in, Tulsa, and for a few years in Amarillo, we have been to Chicago and to LA on Route 66 several times.

 

Thanks for the memories.

Edited July 31, 2015 by Bob Call (see edit history)

[John_S_in_Penna]

That's a great picture in your first link,

Mr. Knight Fan.  It looks like it is an

abandoned one-room schoolhouse.

 

Pennsylvania is full of old one-room schoolhouses,

but they aren't quite so picturesque as the one

you saw sitting forlornly in a field.  Most of the

ones around here are now used as single-family

homes, and the ones built of brick should be

around for centuries more.

[ScarredKnightfan]

You are welcome, Bob!  Glad that sparked so many memories for you.  Now that you mention them, I do remember some of those older specialty cards.  If I'm not mistaken, Chevron now also encompasses Union-Unocal 76 & Pure Oil, I think?  Dad worked for Union-Unocal when they had accounting offices in Schaumburg IL.

 

Thank you, John!  Yes, I think you're right ... it is an abandoned 1-room schoolhouse.  That would certainly explain the expansiveness of the land around it.  Here, in this area, they tore down a brick 1-room school house because it was in such sad shape ... & they wanted to develop the area more.  SMH.

 

 

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