Posted on 12/25/2005 11:42:40 PM PST by CarrotAndStick
And the white vehicle that the photo is taken over?
Kind of flat for the '50's?
2002 Isuzu Trooper?
I believe Patel means innkeeper.
The article said it means village chief.
>My girlfriend and I stayed at such a motel. As soon as the owner was satisfied that we weren't packing he gave us a room.
The shower had grey-green mold growing in it from floor to ceiling. The shower stall wasn't even tiled!!!!!!!!!!<
Stories like yours are why we have an RV. I know who slept on the sheets last, and I know the shower and toilet are clean!
"As an aside I recall reading about the now-forgotten black motel chains in the South that died out after integration made such special arrangements unecessary."
There were black motel chains in the south in the 50s? What were they? There were black owned motels, but Chains?
Nothing wrong with this at all. These are folks that come to this country and get to work right away.
I do not have any evidence to contradict your opinions. Others here may. You may be right, but I don't know much past this article and the comments herein. As mentioned by you and others here, there must some people on the wrong side of the law. But likewise, there are others who have commented here about their satisfaction with the service they claim to have received. So the charges go both ways, I guess.
Anyway, the bad service you mentioned, do they go beyond the norms of the surrounding area? I mean, it would be hard to imagine a good hotel in a thrashy, remote town. Just asking, since my experience of these motels are limited to not ever having stayed in one.
"Wow, now I'm really sorry we took their land and put them on reservations."
Right! Uncle Tommahawk and all that.
In our small town we have a Patel family who owns a motel. They also have really smart, well-behaved kids.
Upon looking again and blowing up the photo...I think you are correct...however to the very far left is a 57 Ford.
Probably not, but they are beautiful to watch soaring above Rush Lake, or swooping down to grab a gosling off the shore line for lunch. One day last summer I counted 11 beautiful American Eagles riding the air currents above Rush Lake. I rounded a bend in the road behind my home early one morning last summer while out for my walk, and came on one feeding on carrion. He was probably 25 feet from me at one point when he flew off at my approach. Ain't it grand to be alive? This is way off the main topic of Patel Motels, but what the heck.
Let's hear it for the internet! It seems Frederick Winslow "Speedy" Taylor was one of the original triumvirate of gurus of the "Scientific Management" philosophy along with his associates Henry Gantt and Frank and Lillian Gilbreth (best remembered as authors of "Cheaper by the Dozen" apparently originally a treatise on how to efficiently integrate work and family life). Among their many innovations were "motion study", "time study", the "Gantt Chart" (a visual display chart for scheduling), humane management and favorable working conditions, among many other things.
Although it seems no one individual can claim credit for the assembly line, the modern version is largely attributed to both Sears & Roebuck and Henry Ford.
Not many people know that Henry Ford's first claim to fame was as Thomas Alva Edison's chief engineer at his Menlo Park laboratory.
FWIW, there is an event I attend every year. We always stay at the same, Indian-run hotel. Why? The guy is fantastic. He goes well "above and beyond". As long as Indians come here, invest money and provide great service, I'm OK with it.
Same here.. We need more people like them to come to America..
"Not many people know that Henry Ford's first claim to fame was as Thomas Alva Edison's chief engineer at his Menlo Park laboratory."
And Walter P Chrysler started out as a railroad mechnic.
The first thing he had to do as an apprentitice was to make is own tools. His tools are still on display in the Chrysler Building.
Don't quote me on this, but I believe he supported the NAACP financially as well.
I didn't know that about Taylor.
For reasons not quite clear, even to me, I can't think of the guy without thinking of the James Cagney movie 1,2,3...
I understand....my comment was sarcastic.
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