Hot Springs, with its booming tourist industry (thanks to natural hot springs and Oaklawn), became a veritable epicenter of motor court accommodations. Little Rock was the site of Arkansas’ first motor court, Lape’s Tourist Camp, built in 1927. They featured many luxuries for the time period, complete with fans, kitchens and radios. Roadside motor courts popped up in most towns by the 1920s. After WWII, families traveled even more, staying overnight in these roadside motels with their neon signs and outdoor ice machines.Īrkansas was no different from the rest of the country. Some of these early establishments were called “cabin camps,” but by the 1930s they morphed into sleeker motor courts. They were zooming down roads in their Model T’s like Clark Gable, traveling for fun, and they needed somewhere to sleep. People were no longer traveling by wagon or train. Motor courts were born because more and more Americans owned cars.
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It makes me chuckle now that I found it shocking, especially considering this movie was a post Hay’s Code production and featured fully clothed characters, twin beds and nary a passionate kiss. This unmarried couple slept in the same room with a sheet hung between them for privacy. Without giving away too much, it’s about a couple driving cross country and staying overnight in motor courts. As a kid born in the 1980s, I probably wouldn’t have ever known about motor courts if I hadn’t seen the movie “It Happened One Night.” This classic movie stars Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert.