# Words found in low-end motel names **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 22, 2009, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-found-in-low-end-motel-names/518474 "2009-11-22T00:01:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2009, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-found-in-low-end-motel-names/518474/41 "2009-11-23T19:37:12Z")
> [@bup](#): > > \*Ooh \*- good one! Oh did you say that.🙂 My brain has been going foggy again. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2009, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-found-in-low-end-motel-names/518474/42 "2009-11-23T19:48:11Z")
How about “motor”? ---
**Author:** ![Quercus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/7ab992/32.png) [@Quercus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quercus)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2009, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-found-in-low-end-motel-names/518474/43 "2009-11-23T19:56:05Z")
> [@jasonh300](#): > > … you should’ve been clued in by the word “AIRPORT”, which is my submission for this thread. I’d say “Airport” for this thread only if the hotel is not in fact located on the airport grounds. The ones actually at airports are usually at least bland-corporate nice (and cost like they’re a step nicer than they are, of course). ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2009, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-found-in-low-end-motel-names/518474/44 "2009-11-23T21:55:33Z")
> [@jasonh300](#): > > The Patels are probably Americans by definition and tend to be proud of that, so they put “American Owned” wherever they can. Staying at a place that’s American owned is not racist, it’s patriotic. American is not a race. > > Now if it said “White Owned”, it’d be a different story. “American owned”\* is\* code for “white owned”. [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1651522,00.html](http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1651522,00.html) > **[BBC NEWS | South Asia | America's Patel Motels](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3177054.stm)** > > How Indians ended up running over half of the motels in the United States. [http://www.indiacurrents.com/news/view\_article.html?article\_id=b8d3a084d045937161f0a50ec45e7114](http://www.indiacurrents.com/news/view_article.html?article_id=b8d3a084d045937161f0a50ec45e7114) [FAQs](http://www.route66motels.com/faq.htm) ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2009, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-found-in-low-end-motel-names/518474/45 "2009-11-25T01:42:44Z")
> [@gotpasswords](#): > > I was just commenting yesterday about a hotel in San Francisco, whose sign proudly proclaims > **RCA COLOR TV** > > Look kids! It’s not only color TV, but it’s _RCA_! Fancy! I’ll bet they even fold over the end of the toilet paper here! They must date back to the early 1960’s-that was when color TV was a big deal. If the establishment has signs this old, imagine what the rooms are like! There used to be an old hotel in Quincy, MA (The Dolphin Inn). It was demolished in the 1990’s-the place looked lie 1960 inside (avocado shag rugs, faux-Danish-Moder furniture, etc.)and they had that RCA Color TV signs! ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2009, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-found-in-low-end-motel-names/518474/46 "2009-11-25T03:01:54Z")
“Saddle” As in the “Silver Saddle” in Springfield, MO. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-found-in-low-end-motel-names/518474.md?page=2)