Apparently they got tired of people asking for directions to the Horse Cave Interchange. You can just see the clerk wordlessly sliding the card across the check-in counter, and the customer – who’d heard so much about Southern friendliness! – wondering why a simple request for directions made people so huffy.

Did they really have Rpets and an Ool Rooms? The world may never know.

“Restaurant features delicious Kentucky foods at moderate prices served in pleasant surroundings. Sleep 200 ft. from H’wy.” An American a paragraph as was ever written.