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Old 05-08-2006, 06:39 AM
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I don't live too far from US 25-E, which goes from Detroit to Florida. I-75 has long since made it obsolete, but there are still several motels along the way that were put up in The Golden Age- 1940-1960...most are ruins now, or have been turned into "efficiency apartments" (read-flophouses),or worse. I remember most of 'em were still going on when I was a kid-Usually some old guy & his wife ran 'em,& the old guy would stay busy mowing, painting, etc....Then the old people would die, & the place would start a long, downhill slide....Very sad to see...
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