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Reviewed by Richard Longstreth | Book Review | The Indiana Magazine of History, 106.2 | The History Cooperative
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America's Main Street Hotels
Transiency and Community in the Early Auto Age

By John A. Jakle and Keith A. Sculle
(Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2009. Pp. xxi, 218. Illustrations, notes, bibliographic references, index. Paperbound, $29.95.)

The importance of the hotel to understanding American cities and life is now widely acknowledged. From their inception in the early nineteenth century, hotels were not only emblems of the rise of urban centers, they were essential instruments in making urban growth a reality. Beyond accommodating the fast increasing number of travelers, early hotels were important gathering places for the local elite. The progress and potential of a community were judged to a significant degree by the extent and character of its hostelries. Major cities set the standard, the emulation of which became a ubiquitous phenomenon in smaller cities and towns nationwide. Hotels also served as catalysts to stimulate city building in communities where settlement was in its infancy. Ever bigger and better hotels remained central definers of downtown America into the mid-twentieth century. . . .
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