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Vintage motel signs on the Dixie Highway in Cave City, KY
The Wigwam Village isn’t the only classic motel in Cave City, Kentucky. It’s just the most distinctive. The Holiday Motel and the Caveland Motel have the best vintage signs of all the old motels in Cave City. Judging by photos of the Caveland Motel sign around the Internet, it has received a recent coat of fresh…
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Sleep in a wigwam
The sign says, “Sleep in a Wigwam,” but these are actually tipis. A wigwam is a domed structure. But the fellow who invented this motel concept just liked the sound of the word wigwam better. Thus a name was born: Wigwam Village. That fellow was Frank Redford, who built the first Wigwam Village in 1933 in Horse…