The year was 1925. Across the country, thousands were touring in their cars. Auto travel was becoming normal. But on this day in San Luis Obispo, a town roughly between Los Angeles and San Francisco ...

The Starlite Motel in Mesa, Ariz. Video by Ash Ponders for The New York Times By Megan McCrea The motel might seem like an ageless fixture of the American landscape, but in fact, this roadside ...

In 1929, a used-car salesman in Waco named Edgar Lee Torrance opened what would become the first motel chain in America. With its cheesy white-stucco wink to the Alamo’s facade, Torrance’s Alamo Plaza ...

There are some things that you take so deeply for granted that you don’t ever stop to think about why or how they started, they just seem to have always been and will always be. They aren’t created.

The budget motel chain Motel 6 is being acquired by the parent company of Oyo, a hotel operator based in India. The New York-based investment firm Blackstone, which owns Motel 6's parent company G6 ...

“Motor lodges.” “High-end motels.” “Exterior-corridor hotels.” Whatever you call them, the “motorist’s hotel” has gotten a boost these past 15 months. Now about that reputation … By Rachel Levin As ...

Motel 6, the economy budget motel that has existed for six decades, announced that it will be acquired by Oyo, an Indian-based travel company, in a multi-million dollar sale. But there is no need to ...