November 8, 2025
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Our view: Recognizing the modern motel’s SLO County roots

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In a year with plenty of notable milestones, we’ll take a few moments to recognize the Dec. 12 centennial of the Milestone Mo-Tel in San Luis Obispo, the first motor hotel in America. As recounted in many articles but most recently in the New York Times, it was two brothers, Arthur and Alfred Heineman, who…

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