20 Things Every 1970s Motel Included Before Hotels Started Charging for Everything

The road trip used to be the vacation. You loaded the car, you left early, and everything that happened between home and wherever you were going counted. The stops were cheap, the food was made in the building you were sitting in, and nobody needed a screen to get through the afternoon. This video goes through exactly what that was like. What the stations and motels gave you for nothing, what the diners served, what families brought from home instead of buying, and what a driver was expected to handle himself beside the road. Some of it would horrify a parent today. Most of it is why people still talk about those trips fifty years later. If you remember riding across the country with the windows down, subscribe to Lost American Road Trips.