About 1956 · Card no. 5007
Motel is a coined word, from motor and hotel, first used by the Milestone Mo-Tel in San Luis Obispo in 1925. The neon VACANCY sign with the NO that lit separately arrived in the 1930s and did more for road travel than any guidebook.
The town is invented. Everything in the paragraph above it is not. Every card here is an original painting, free to send by email or by link.