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1984 AAA Tourbook
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Cave
City, Kentucky --822 Mammoth Cave
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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.
Following
its brief life as a Howard Johnson's, Cave City became the Oasis
Motor Inn and Restaurant. By 1992 it had become rebranded as a Days
Inn advertising itself with an indoor pool. It lasted as a Days
Inn for nearly ten years. Then Cave City's original Holiday Inn,
which had been on borrowed time for a number of years as a Holiday
Inn Express and then became a Quality Inn, stole the Days Inn brand
from the former Howard Johnson's which itself became an outlet of
America's
Best Value Inn!
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Brochure circa
1980: Donahue Collection |
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1987 AAA Tourbook
page A18 |
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Photographs
2003: Phil Edwards |
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Photographs
April 22, 2004: Kummerlowe |
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The
one-time HoJo's Restaurant continued to operate as the Oasis Restaurant
even after the former Motor Lodge became a Days Inn during the
early 1990s. Subsequently the Mansard Manor played host to a number
of restauranteurs. According to the America's Best Value Inn website
it became El Patron Family Restaurant. |
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