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Tourist cabins, auto and motor courts
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I recently picked up this luggage decal. The other Little America ephemera that came with it dates from 1941, so this likely does as well.
I’ve spent the night at Little America (the original one, out where the deer and the antelope play) on a couple-three occasions. It’s a hotel/restaurant/gas station/etc. The place is very clean, very well-maintained, not at all trendy. I expect I’ll stay there again.
I’ve spent the night at Little America (the original one, out where the deer and the antelope play) on a couple-three occasions. It’s a hotel/restaurant/gas station/etc. The place is very clean, very well-maintained, not at all trendy. I expect I’ll stay there again.
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“Boy, it sure was cold.”
—January 6, 1941
You can kinda rely on it being cold in Little America, Wyoming (a census-designated place, population 68, give or take, elevation 6,424 feet) on January 6.
Little America took its name from the Antarctic base camp set up by Robert Byrd, hence the penguins in the logo.
—January 6, 1941
You can kinda rely on it being cold in Little America, Wyoming (a census-designated place, population 68, give or take, elevation 6,424 feet) on January 6.
Little America took its name from the Antarctic base camp set up by Robert Byrd, hence the penguins in the logo.
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Pla-Port Resort, Lake of the Ozarks.
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Step out of the back door, fall into the lake, lol.
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I just read (and verified) that this place is listed for sale — $224,900. If I lived near Bedford County, Pennsylvania, I’d at least check it out.
A dozen freestanding cabins plus a separate house. Looks to be in turn-key condition. If it were within a hundred miles of here, you’d have to add a zero to that listing price.
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If I was independently wealthy with disposable income, I'd buy it just to save it from the wrecking ball...or a box chain convenience store...even if it never turned a dime of profit.
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I’d think that anyone actually looking to make a viable business of it would almost have to try not to. You wouldn’t even have to turn a couple G’s a month to make the nut. I don’t know what utilities run (a wad, in the winter, I’d guess), and I don’t minimize the dedication it would take. But still, it’s only $225K. You can’t get a ground floor condo with a view of the dumpster for that kinda money around here.
That’s assuming there are enough people like us among the general population who would seek out lodgings such as this place over the chain motels. Maybe that’s assuming too much. But I don’t think so.
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Hollywood beds no less!!!!
Hollywood beds no less!!!!
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Should be Richard Byrd, not Robert. Robert was a long-serving US senator from West Virginia.
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The posse.
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Near Doolittle, Missouri.
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The one from the North
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Here's one from my neck of the woods. Torisevan kahvimaja (Toriseva Coffee Hut) in Virrat, Finlandia. Opened in 1936 by Lotta Svärd organisation ( female section of the finnish Civil Guard). Still open, owned by same family sinne 1951.
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Homestead, Florida.
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