Neal also makes a painting of the motel in the waking hours of the morning.

* Graham Stark, longtime friend of Sellers, once again makes an appearance in the series, albeit in a small cameo role as the owner of a small German motel.

* The Sunnydale Arms motel, where Faith was living for most of season three, makes a brief return as Ethan's hiding place.

Film sequels, Psycho II and Psycho III, also feature the motel, as does the 1987 television movie Bates Motel.

After Hitchcock's classic films of the 1950s, he produced the shocking and engrossing thriller Psycho ( 1960 ) about a loner mother-fixated motel owner and taxidermist.

Mario Bava, ostensibly the director of this nonsense, allows this female Bela Lugosi to quench her thirst four times before she burns, screaming, at the stake [...] As a setting for unadulterated horror, it will leave its audiences yearning for that quiet, sunny little motel in Psycho.

There is a post office and coffee shop, a hotel / motel and a primary school.

A motor hotel, or motel for short ( also known as motor inn, motor court, motor lodge, tourist lodge, cottage court, auto camps, tourist home, tourist cabins, auto cabins, cabin camps, cabin court, or auto court ), is a hotel designed for motorists, and usually has a parking area for motor vehicles.

The Motel Inn of San Luis Obispo, which ( as the Milestone Motor Hotel ) was the first to use the " motel " name, sits incomplete with what is still standing left boarded up and fenced off at the side of U. S. Route 101 ; a 2002 restoration proposal never came to fruition.

In the year 2000, the American Hotel-Motel Association removed ' motel ' from its name after considerable market research, and is now the American Hotel and Lodging Association.

However, some families still kept their motels, and to this day, one can find a motel that is owned by the same family who built and ran it originally ( i. e. the Maples Motel in Sandusky, Ohio ) with a subsequent generation continuing the family business.

The original concept of a motel as a motorist's hotel which grew up around the highways of the 1920s is of American origin.

The connotations of " motel " as adult motel or love hotel in both the Spanish and Portuguese languages can be awkward for US-based chains accustomed to using the term in its original meaning, although this issue is diminishing as chains ( such as Super 8 Motels ) increasingly drop the word " motel " from their corporate identities at home.

It is also the name of a motel chain in China ( Motel 168 ).

* March 31 – American Tejano pop singer Selena is murdered at a motel in Corpus Christi, Texas.

When the owners of the motel in which they are staying notice that Peter's car is gone, they roust Ellie out of bed and kick her out.

Clark County is today known as a major tourist destination, with 150, 000 hotel and motel rooms.

She finds the motel, which Menzies recommended to her, has no other guests and is staffed only by a mentally challenged night manager ( Dennis Weaver ).

Learning the motel is owned by Grandi, Vargas travels to Grandi's other motel in search of Susie, and confronts the gang members who attacked her ; when the gang members refuse to answer him, Vargas violently beats them down.

His catchphrase is " Vote Quimby ", which he always finds an opportunity to say, even in situations where it would be disadvantageous to identify himself, like inadvertently being caught by Homer in a motel room with his mistress.

The national monument is quite close to the town of Marquette, Iowa, and is just across the Mississippi River from the city of Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, where ample motel and gambling-boat facilities exist.

Jacy invites Duane to a motel for sex, but he is unable to perform ; it takes a second attempt to alter her virginity status.

It's such a fine, pure picture of a small section of American life that I can't imagine its ever seeming irrelevant, either as a social document or as one of the best examples of what's called cinema vérité or direct cinema ... It is fact, photographed and recorded with extraordinarily mobile camera and sound equipment, and then edited and carefully shaped into a kind of cinematic mural of faces, words, motel rooms, parlors, kitchens, streets, television images, radio music — even weather.

Foster is the only one in Mound Township and includes a motel along with a several houses.

There is also a camping area, RV park and motel.

There is one gas station, one convenience store, an auto parts store, a motel, a small medical center, a thrift shop, a public library, and a refuse service.

John McCarty of Cinefantastique stated that the house featured in the film made the Bates motel " look positively pleasant by comparison ".

Crossroads was set in a Birmingham motel and, although the series was popular, its purported low technical standard and bad acting were much mocked.

These motel rooms tend to cost much more than a traditional rental, but they are accessible to the working poor because they do not require a large deposit.

In recent years Baker has experienced hard times, with casinos just across the Nevada border at Primm and Jean, Nevada taking much of its motel trade.

After exchanging conversation, they realize that they have so much in common and spend the night together at the " Fork in the Road " motel.

The newest manager of Hotel Casablanca is former motel proprietor Ronald Kornblow ( Groucho ), who is very much unaware that he has been hired because no one else will dare take the position.

Most RV parks are open to allcomers and rent spaces on a nightly or weekly basis, much like a motel or hotel.

The series features more violence than previous series ; in The Negative Zone, Tom blows up a motel room to escape the authorities.

The Big Texan Steak Ranch is a steakhouse restaurant and motel located in Amarillo, Texas, United States which opened on the previous U. S. Route 66 in the 4500 block of East Amarillo Boulevard in 1960 and moved to its present location on Interstate 40 in 1970.

The next day Allison returns to the motel and confronts Hector over what had happened the previous night.

The scenario of an isolated motel being operated by a serial killer, whose guests subsequently become victims, has been exploited in a number of other horror films, notably Motel Hell ( 1980 ) and Mountaintop Motel Massacre ( 1986 ).

Several of these horror films also incorporate the sub-theme of voyeurism, whereby the motel owner spies on ( or even films ) the sexual exploits of the guests.

In both films, the blonde travels to a remote location and checks into a hotel or motel run by an eccentric manager.

Twenty feet below the street level in the excavation of the new motel to be constructed on this site, a black coal-like deposit has been encountered.

My husband enters the motel office, signs up for a room, and then solemnly asks the proprieter if he accepts pets.

Many a motel owner -- when we've stopped there again -- has remembered us and has said he preferred our dogs to most children.

As you pull out of your motel or national park home-for-the-night, visit a market and buy just what you need for the next meal.

It was a fairly modern motel with quite a bit of electrical display in front.

Ninety-nine times out of a hundred the motel manager doesn't check the license number on the plates against the license number the tenant writes out.

The manager of the motel was a woman who apparently didn't care.

not like the cracker-box construction of so many of the motel units that have stucco all over the outside but walls that are thin enough so you can hear every movement of the people in the adjoining apartment.

The powerful microphone I could press against the wall between my motel unit and that occupied by the man would bring in the sound of any conversation, and I was positively nauseated I was so hungry.

He checked into a motel and drove downtown.

Motorists like myself who can remember the old `` tourists accommodated '' signs on farm houses and village homes before World War 2, can only marvel at the great size and the luxury of the relatively new and fast-grossing motel business.

That made up for the `` best '' motel in Norman, Okla., where the proprietor knocked $2 off the $8.50 tab when we found ants in the pressed-paper furniture.

The jury, which was locked up in a motel overnight, was canvassed at the request of Walker after the verdict was announced.

Then, when the case went to the jury, the judge excused one of the jurors, saying the juror had told him he had been accosted by masked men at his motel the night before the trial opened.

So one week later, I surrendered to him in the little motel on Route 10.

Outside, in the summertime fields behind the motel, a thousand crickets serenaded us.

Heads of communion from each member of COCU ( as well as the ELCA, a partner in mission and dialogue ) inaugurated the group on the day before Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in 2002 at the motel where he was killed.

Morris walked over to the motel window and tossed the envelope out the window into a parking lot.

They apply wherever users arrive more or less at random to receive exclusive service from any one of a group of service-providing elements without prior reservation, for example, where the service-providing elements are ticket-sales windows, toilets on an airplane, or motel rooms.

Entering dictionaries after World War II, the word motel, coined in 1925 as a portmanteau of motor and hotel or motorists ' hotel, referred initially to a type of hotel consisting of a single building of connected rooms whose doors faced a parking lot and, in some circumstances, a common area ; or a series of small cabins with common parking.

Motels are often privately owned, though motel chains do exist.

As the provincial highways and the United States highway system began to develop in the 1920s, long-distance road journeys became more common, and the need for inexpensive, easily accessible overnight accommodation sited close to the main routes led to the growth of the motel concept.