Its success helped him to develop a luxury version of the motel, a new invention that rendered obsolete auto camps, which provided small cabins and public toilets to drivers. He had traded on his flying past when marketing San Francisco’s Bellevue as a place for aviation heroes. ![]() Hull finally hit the jackpot in the hotel business. He operated a movie theater, then a state-of-the-art industry, but it flopped. Would this be another of Hull’s failed business ventures? In 1913, he had first tried his luck with mining in Mexico, but in the midst of the Mexican Revolution he ran into Pancho Villa’s army and had to walk 600 miles to get back to the border. ![]() ![]() This article is excerpted from Stefan Al’s book “ The Strip: Las Vegas and the Architecture of the American Dream.”
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