I do not know how they prospered but remember three dollars a night for the wife, myself and the first baby. A light breakfast was also included.

This was as late as 1962 as we took our new 1962 volkswagon out to the coast. That car was 1600 dollars brand new. When trading the car back in three years later the difference was 600 dollars for onother new one a little more upscale and we had really used the 62 a lot.

Today just the sales tax on a new car is greater. There were no sales taxes back then either if I remember well. I might be mistaken though as I really cannot remember the year they were implemented here.

A less than nice story was we did not use disposable diapers. Deposited the solied ones in a container on the rooftop carrier.

At our destination went to a laundramat. As it turned out it was lucky there where no other people in it. As soon as the container was opened to dump the diapers into the washer. Every fly in the area seemed to magically appear. Some of those diapers had been in the hot sun for three days. You live you learn.