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Otto's Motel Courts / Bell Motor Court

4048 E Kearney St., Springfield, MO
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This was the office for the Otto's Motel Courts & Restaurant. Wallace Otto built the motel in 1939 or 1940. I found a May 1940 newspaper clipping mentioning the motel. The Bell family bought the property in the mid-1940s and renamed it Bell's Motel Courts and at some point added eight more cabins. The Carroll's owned and operated the place 1952 into the 1990s.

GPS: 37.238060, -93.208614

The building shown above was the Truck Store when we snapped this photo in 2016, but they seem to have moved on.

This building was just across the fence on the east side of the Truck Store when we went by in 2016. I thought it might have been one of the cottages,but I'm not sure, at any rate it's gone now.

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Vintage Advertising Highlights

Otto's Motel Courts all modern, fire proof steam heated cottages with locked garages. Popular priced cafe. Mail, Wire Western Union or Phone 9203W11 for reservation. Owned and operated by Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Otto.
P.S. We stopped here.

NOTE: This postcard is postmarked (Dec?) 1946. The Otto's Name has been crossed out and H. F. Bell's name has been added using what looks to have been a rubber stamp.
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Photo(s): 2016