Cabins imitating the Indian teepee for tourists along highway south of Bardstown, Kentucky (LOC)
Image by The Library of Congress
Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910-1990, photographer.
Cabins imitating the Indian teepee for tourists along highway south of Bardstown, Kentucky
1940 July.
1 negative : safety ; 3 1/4 x 3 1/4 inches or smaller.
Notes:
Photo shows Wigwam Village #2, Cave City, KY. (Source: Library staff, 2009)
Title and other information from caption card.
Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.
Subjects:
United States–Kentucky–Nelson County–Bardstown.
Format: Safety film negatives.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Washington, DC 20540, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Part Of: Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information Photograph Collection (Library of Congress)
More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi
Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsa.8c13074
Call Number: LC-USF34- 055240-D
Beautiful image.
I wanna eat and sleep in a wigwam!
That’s so awesome.
There are a couple of these Motels still left and in operation, like this one in Holbrook, AZ on US Rt. 66.
Hi, I’m an admin for a group called Wigwam Village Motels (Frank Redford Design), and we’d love to have this added to the group!
This is a popular image. Glad to see the Library of Congress has the negative. (maybe that’s why it’s so popular). There is a lot of detail here that I’ve never seen in the other copies.
Viewers may visit the Wigwam Village Motels Group and see more history and a link to a map of all seven that existed. The one pictured here is still in business today and is the oldest of the 3 left. The other two are on Route 66 in Holbrook Arizona and San Bernardino CA.
Yes, Foothill Blvd. now, just as you get into Rialto, CA, west of San Bernardino.
Looks like the "Cozy cone Moltel"…
There are some in Wharton, TX.
http://www.photine.net/entry/tee-pee-motel
This photograph is featured on Indicommons.org as among the Best of the Commons.
Out of curiosity, does anybody know what road this is/was on? I was — not at all coincidentally — on roads south of Bardstown on Saturday and didn’t see this site.
Lu_ It’s still in business! It’s considered to be in Cave City. http://www.wigwamvillage.com/
Good to know for next time I’m down! Thanks!
I remember this place
It’s still there!! I wondered how far it went back. It’s near Cave City, closer to the area where Mammoth Cave is than Bardstown.
Cool thats not to far from me! its actually pretty far from Bardstown, closer to Elizabethtown.
cool thanks for posting, I saw them somewhere else, too, but this recreates the concept great!
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/15523904@N02] yessss,,,that was the idea !!!