Taking Care of Business
Now, doesn't this just conjure up images of Men In Hats With Important Business?
This is the Downtowner Motor Inn in Columbia, S.C. It does not appear to still exist, although the chain still survives in some form.
I've no doubt that the man in the foreground had a wasp-waisted wife at home caring for 2.5 precious little darlings.
And when Dad has business in Kansas City, he stayed here:
Both hotels have that look that just screams
"modern" at you. Nothing like turquoise panels with splashes of dull colors to
project that "go-getter" image that businessmen of the era loved.
I like the postcard above better, being an artist's illustration that clearly shows the concept of the ultra-modern hotel without the reality of a building plunked smack in the middle of downtown. So you think that even in that era, people walked? Boulevards that wide were not meant to hold just three cars. Why, I expect a bubble-toped jet car (with fins, of course) to land on the low roof over the restaurant any minute!