TRAVEL in the USA in the 1950's

Perhaps you recall something like this from your youth???

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ANYBODY OLD ENOUGH TO RECALL ROAD TRIPS WHERE YOU SLEPT IN YOUR CAR?

My mother got this 1952 Plymouth and I recall several road trips to visit relations in Houston and Jasper, Arkansas, where we pulled over at dark and slept in the car until the next morning.

This was the early 50's and while there hotels in the cities for travelers, auto courts were just coming into play in mid-America and it was still a good few years before motels came on the scene.

It wasn't unusual on the outskirts of small or mid-sized cities to find a scattering of cars pulled over to the side of the major roads, travelers just saving $ by sleeping in their cars and going on with their trips the next day.

(Photo summer of 1952, Chicago, me at 6 and the 52 Plymouth.)