Original 1951 Shell Oil Company booklet listing auto courts, resorts, hotels, and national forest and state park camp sites in Nevada and northern California, printed more than 74 years ago.

• This directory measures 9" x 4" and has 68 pages. There are detailed listings of hundreds of roadside cabins, cottages, auto courts, camp sites, and trailer parks, including Hillyard's Auto Court in Mill Valley, Faulkner's Redwood Lodge in Miranda, Starbuck Cottages in Lake Tahoe, Buena Vista Trailer Coach Park in Palo Alto, and many more.



• This booklet was published by the Shell Oil Company in 1951 and is dated in the lower margin, inside the front cover.



• Condition:  It is in excellent condition, bright and clean, with no marks, rips, or tears. Be sure to take a look at the scans and feel free to ask any questions.



• It was printed more than a dozen years before the Interstate Highway System changed the traveling habits of the American motorist, when there were no smoothly-paved limited-access high-speed motorways and no comfy chain motels. The roadside cottage industry was still flourishing along many rural routes, where any farmer or property owner with some minor construction skills and a bit of road-aligned land could build and outfit a few shacks to provide overnight accommodation and make some money from the traveling public.



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