66 Motel

66 Motel is the name of various independent tourist lodgings on the former Route 66 in the United States of America:

See also

66 Motel (Needles)

66 Motel, an independently owned six-room motel established 1946-47 in Needles, formerly served travellers on U.S. Route 66 in California. Bypassed c. 1970 by Interstate 40, the motel has been used as single room occupancy apartments since the 1990s.

The tiny independent motel is one of numerous U.S. Route 66 businesses which had taken the name of the now-historic highway in its heyday; there is also a 66 Drive-In cinema in Carthage, Missouri and a Route 66 Motel in Kingman, Arizona.

History

Needles, California, founded in 1883. was originally a stop on the Santa Fe Railway where it crossed from California into Arizona at the eastern edge of the Mojave Desert; El Garces Harvey House was built in 1908 to replace the original railway station. In 1916, the Trails Arch Bridge brought the National Old Trails Road across the Colorado River; this span became part of U.S. Route 66 in 1926.

Campgrounds and cabins, initially primitive in design, sprang up at roadside during the 1920s and 1930s to accommodate motorcar traffic.

Motel

A motel is a hotel designed for motorists and usually has a parking area for motor vehicles. Entering dictionaries after World War II, the word motel, coined as a portmanteau contraction of "motor hotel", originates from the Milestone Mo-Tel of San Luis Obispo, California (now called the Motel Inn of San Luis Obispo), which was built in 1925. The term referred initially to a type of hotel consisting of a single building of connected rooms whose doors faced a parking lot and in some circumstances, a common area or a series of small cabins with common parking. Motels are often individually owned, though motel chains do exist.

As large highway systems began to be developed in the 1920s, long-distance road journeys became more common, and the need for inexpensive, easily accessible overnight accommodation sites close to the main routes led to the growth of the motel concept. Motels peaked in popularity in the 1960s with rising car travel, only to decline in response to competition from the newer chain hotels that became commonplace at highway interchanges as traffic was bypassed onto newly constructed freeways. Several historic motels are listed on the US National Register of Historic Places.

Motel (Motel album)

Motel is the debut eponymous album by the Mexican soul-rock band Motel. The album was released on March 21, 2006, in Mexico. Four months later, the album was released in countries like Guatemala, Venezuela, Chile, and the United States. Their first single is called Dime ven (English: Tell Me to Come. The song was very popular in Latin American and Mexican charts. They also released their last singles Olvídame and Lejos estamos mejor.

Track listing

Edición Especial

Songs from the original version plus acoustic version, bonus track Viento and the videos of Dime ven, Olvídame, and Lejos estamos mejor.

New Tracks (12–16)

Motel (Spanish rock band)

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Motel is a rock band created in Castellón (Spain) in 1996.

Their first album was Uno in 1998, then El complicado sabor de la carne cruda (2000), Veneno Stereo (2002), Animales de Compañía (2009, Sello Author) and Los Renglones Torcidos (2011) and Cultivos (2015). Mondosonoro (a wellknown Spanish magazine) selected Animales de Compañía as one of the best 15 records of that year of the Valencian Community. This band, very respected in the Spanish underground, has played all around Spain and shared stage with famous bands such as Barricada, Los Planetas, Sôber o Pereza.

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