Cabins imitating the Indian teepee for tourists along highway south of Bardstown, Kentucky (LOC)

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

Comments and faves

  1. ★

    bior, Sterlic, TenYearsGone, bobby__emm, and 167 other people added this photo to their favorites.

  2. Vintage Roadside (44 months ago | reply)

    Beautiful image.

  3. e.m.crawford (44 months ago | reply)

    I wanna eat and sleep in a wigwam!

  4. Exquisitely Bored in Nacogdoches (44 months ago | reply)

    That's so awesome.

  5. tx_mattster (44 months ago | reply)

    There are a couple of these Motels still left and in operation, like this one in Holbrook, AZ on US Rt. 66.

    IMAG0075

  6. john4kc (43 months ago | reply)

    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.

  7. Crooked Beak (42 months ago | reply)

    Yes, Foothill Blvd. now, just as you get into Rialto, CA, west of San Bernardino.

  8. PLEXNE (41 months ago | reply)

    Looks like the "Cozy cone Moltel"...

  9. laanba (41 months ago | reply)

    There are some in Wharton, TX.
    www.photine.net/entry/tee-pee-motel

  10. Lú_ (41 months ago | reply)

    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.

  11. john4kc (41 months ago | reply)

    Lu_ It's still in business! It's considered to be in Cave City. www.wigwamvillage.com/

  12. Lú_ (41 months ago | reply)

    Good to know for next time I'm down! Thanks!

  13. budderflyman (41 months ago | reply)

    I remember this place

  14. patsycat01 (38 months ago | reply)

    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.

  15. JP Spurs (32 months ago | reply)

    Cool thats not to far from me! its actually pretty far from Bardstown, closer to Elizabethtown.

  16. greentea flute (31 months ago | reply)

    cool thanks for posting, I saw them somewhere else, too, but this recreates the concept great!

  17. Lixcordero (27 months ago | reply)

    yessss,,,that was the idea !!!

  18. Mustang Koji (19 months ago | reply)

    For those of us who are not familiar with America's love affair with our cars, the Pixar movie for kids called "Cars" was based on meticulous research into life on Route 66. The "Cozy Cone Motel" someone referred to was just one of those many points. The wigwam motels in Holbrooke, AZ and Rialto, CA are still in operation but barely. I took my kids to stay overnight at the Holbrook establishment. They looked for Lightning McQueen, Sally and Mater until late at night.

  19. iamfrankiam (11 months ago | reply)

    With friends, a bunch of us make the pilgrimage to WWV#2 nearly every year. It's goofy fun to land in this dry county and take over for a couple of nights. Gather up ur friends and go sleep in a wigwam. Take plenty of firewood for the fire ring and have a cookout in the shelter behind. But save one evening for dinner up the road in Munfordville at Big Bubba Buck's Belly Bustin' Bliss BBQ. Yummy. Oh, be sure to take your own booze cause the nearest is in Bowling Green and that's a drive. The Cave City, KY exit for the motel is also the exit for Mammoth Cave, we've done it and their various tours are set up for adults and kids. We always have great fun taking this trip and I'm sure you would, too!

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