Wigwam Motels and Wayne Burgess your email is down

[Dynaflash8]

Folks: I know there is a way to send a private message, I just can't figure out how <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Wayne your yahoo address isn't working. My message came back undeliverable today. Wanted to comment on your newsletter.

So, I'll tell everybody. In Wayne's current newsletter (he's editor of the Northern Neck'n Antique Autos News) he has a story about a member, Harry & Mary Jean Inscoe, stopping at a Wigwam Motel somewhere out west. At one time the Wigwam Motels were a nationwide chain, back in the 1940's and 1950's, the heyday of the Mom & Pop individual cabin motor courts. I have black and white Brownie Hawkeye photos that I took when I was 14 years old of the one that was once on the Orange Blossom Trail here in Orlando, Florida. It was our first trip to Florida, way back in 1952. My Parents were driving their nearly new 1951 Plymouth stripped down sedan. That car, which I was forced to learn to drive in, was the only time between 1932 and his death in 1999 that my father owned any brand except a Buick. It lasted from 1951 to 1958, when they bought a new '58 Buick Special.

The Wigwam Motels or maybe they were the Wigwam Motor Courts were so very unique. The were individual cabins, built to look like Indian wigwams, complete with the poles sticking out of the point on the top. That brings about a question for you folks. How many of you have ever seen one of the Wigwam Motels?

[R W Burgess]

Earl, Sorry about the full mailbox. You can try it again. I sent out some pictures of a Rod(ugh)Run to various people today. The pictures were rather large and one came back to me undeliverable and fill my mailbox to the point of receiving no more mail until I deleted it. That's the lesson for today, folks. Always keep your mailbox in halfway decent shape in regard to space. The wigwams were kool. Wayne

[24T42]

Earl,

Here are 2 web pages you might want to check out -

1. Wigwam Village Motel - Holbrook Az

2. Roadside America - Wigwam page

This is a neat page - check it out. It shows you a lot of neat attractions to see all over the USA.

[John N. Packard]

Earl,

There was a Wigwam motel on US Route 1 just south of Ashland, Virginia north of Richmond back in the 50s. I don't recall that the cabins were shaped liked wigwams; but it did have one out front. Have no idea what became of it. I've lived in Maryland since 1958.

jpn

[R W Burgess]

John, There were a lot of nice motels up and down Rt 301 in the old days. Everything's gone now because of the interstate system. Just the floresant lights in the Waldorf, Maryland area would knock your eyes out. But, then the state said that would have to go. Not real legal you know, although almost every state now has it's own lottery system. Can't trust the natives with a valuable business like that you know. Wayne