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    20 Motel Policies Travelers Actually Encountered on the Road

    Discover 20 surprising motel policies travelers actually encountered from the 1950s–1970s that defined vintage American travel.

    Road trips once came with more than just maps, styrofoam coffee cups, and late-night neon. In the mid-20th century, motels across America operated with a patchwork of quirky, inconvenient, and sometimes baffling policies that would make today’s travelers raise an…