Commentary MANNS CHOICE, Penn.—There is a little burst of wonder that road travelers experience when they head west out of Bedford, climb Tulls Hill, and are welcomed by the Lincoln Motor Court at the crest. It’s a burst of wonder up for sale. The motor court is a concept that is both familiar and foreign to the modern eye: part motel, part cabin, delightfully welcoming as 12 detached cabins all form a semicircle around the central office, nestled cozily among scores of pine trees. Long before the orange-roofed Howard Johnson’s dotted America’s highways or Holiday Inns opened at interchanges of our newly constructed interstates, the middle-class family had nowhere to stay on vacation other than tourist camps. They were the original tiny house before the tiny house fad came along. Lincoln Motor Court owners Debbie and Bob Altizer explained that tourist camps didn’t have much other than a parking space …
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