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 Photographs April 22 & 23, 2004

 Cave City, Kentucky Roadside
I-65 Cave City Interchange 

 

Early on, a Holiday Inn was built and open by 1967. It retained the famous name for many years becoming a Holiday Inn Express, but by the late 1990s it was rebranded a Quality Inn. Even Ramada got into the act, and located its property in a slightly less desirable spot not long after the Holiday Inn made its debut. And of course, still later Howard Johnson's entered the scene. 
 
 
 
 

 

Jerry's, which resembles Big Boys (especially Shoney's) of the 1970s, still has an outlet at Cave City, but now faces stiff competition from Cracker Barrel and McDonalds to name two.
 

 

 Star of the American Road no more, a battered Texaco sign rests on a trailer behind its former station along with a field strewn with many other Texaco artifacts. Soon Chevron and Royal Dutch Shell will have eliminated the once mighty brand.
 
 

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