No time to read? Listen to the podcast. Back in the 1950s, Ruth Meyer toiled away as a copywriter at a Kansas City, Missouri radio station. She wanted to be a journalist, but in the Ozzie and Harriett era copywriting, along with such jobs as teaching and nursing, was […]
In 1958 John Houghtaling, a former pots and pans salesman, shook the motel business. And that was only the beginning of a symbol of the freedom of the open road.