The Coral Courts Motel on old Route 66 in St. Louis -- now demolished.

Ruined motel, west of Vicksburg, Miss. Prince Castles were a late-50s, early-60s fixture in Northern Illinois. Lots of the old buildings, like this one in Dixon, Ill., still survive.

The former Holland Truck Station, Flora, Ill.

Alas, where once donuts rolled on the road from Ashland City, Tenn., there now are do-uts pointing to a vacated strip mall now populated only by a doll museum.

Remains of the E.T. Wickham environment in northern Tennessee. Try it

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