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 Photographs courtesy of Phil Edwards 2003

 Cave City, Kentucky
I-65 @ Hwy. 90

 

 With its extra-large Mansard Restaurant, Cave City was set to open for business in the Summer of 1972. It was located to capture tourists seeing the sites near Cave City itself and especially to capture business from those people headed to Mammoth Cave. It was only a Howard Johnson's for a scant five years, for by 1977 it was no longer listed in directories.

When Phil Edwards visited the site, the Motor Lodge was operating as Cendant's Days Inn, and the Restaurant had gone out-of-business.
 
 
 
 

 
 
 

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