{"id":8967,"date":"2011-04-30T03:05:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-30T03:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/struth-first-mo-tel-is-no-tel-2\/"},"modified":"2011-04-30T03:05:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-30T03:05:00","slug":"struth-first-mo-tel-is-no-tel-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2011\/04\/struth-first-mo-tel-is-no-tel-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Struth! First Mo-Tel is no-tel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-3dHA_T0ql_I\/Tbt8jF2ID4I\/AAAAAAAAOGs\/HClIHzl5pFs\/s1600\/USA%2BCaliforna%2BMilestone%2BInn%2B2-748333.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-3dHA_T0ql_I\/Tbt8jF2ID4I\/AAAAAAAAOGs\/HClIHzl5pFs\/s320\/USA%2BCaliforna%2BMilestone%2BInn%2B2-748333.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>STRUTH !\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says its been closed for twenty-years, and today only the original mission-style belltower still stands to mark where the world&#8217;s first motel was built in California in 1925.<\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles architect, Arthur Heineman built the &#8220;Milestone Mo-Tel&#8221; at San Luis Obispo, halfway between his home-town and San Francisco, in a time when the 600km journey took a minimum 2-days by car and travellers either overnighted in hotels or camping grounds.<\/p>\n<p>The Milestone Mo-Tel cost US$80,000 to build, and for US$1.25 a night (the average annual income then was $1236) guests got a 2-room bungalow with kitchen and adjoining garage that looked onto a central courtyard with a pool and picnic tables for socialising with other overnighters.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Heineman also had grand plans for a chain of similar mo-tels across America that would comprise blocks of attached apartments rather than bungalows, and with parking right at the front door, together with restaurants and mini-markets. But they never came to fruition and the world&#8217;s first over-sized &#8220;motel&#8221; closed in 1991 as motorists opted for newer, smaller and cheaper versions of motels as we know them today.<\/p>\n<p>The Milestone Mo-Tel is owned by the Apple Farm Inn that&#8217;s right next door in San Luis Obispo. Book yourself a night there, and you can have a sticky-beak at the belltower and few other remains of its famous and historic neighbour.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STRUTH !\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says its been closed for twenty-years, and today only the original mission-style belltower still stands to mark where the world&#8217;s first motel was built in California in 1925. Los Angeles architect, Arthur Heineman built the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[376,377],"class_list":["post-8967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-david-ellis","tag-struth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}