Alabama Postcards: Motels (1)

I have a sizeable and growing Alabama postcard collection, and this post highlights six that feature motels. I have many others on that topic, as well as hospitals, libraries, etc, to use for future postings. Postcards can be fascinating links to specific times, places and the minutia of life, even more so when they were actually mailed and include a message. I've already written a number of pieces about specific postcards and used cards as illustrations in many other posts. Some specific ones include: Ross Chemical Building, Auburn Wetumpka Penitentiary Redmont Hotel, Birmingham Jefferson Hospital, Birmingham Mentone Springs Hotel State of AlabamaHotel Reich, GadsdenElectrik Maid Bake Shop & Restaurant, BirminghamAuburn Serum PlantForrest Cemetery Chapel, GadsdenWhew, more than I thought! Postcards have an interesting history which you can read about on Wikipedia and the Library of Congress web site. Dating postcards is discussed on this Smithsonian page. An entry about the history…