7100 Nebraska Avenue was at the gateway of the popular tourist destination Sulphur Springs in 1946 when the El Rancho Hotel Court was being built. It was a 25-unit overnight motor hotel. Costing upwards of $35,000, Joseph E McGlamery, once the head of the city sanitary department, constructed the motel two years before his death.  His wife, Hollie L McGlamery, sold the property to William Kutik and Norbert Luke in 1949, who, in turn, sold it to Mr. and Mrs. Max Tatelman in 1951. It sold again in 1962 for $115,000.

While the neighborhood has declined since its heyday in the first half of the 20th century, the business is still going, has the same name, and visually reflects a simpler time when car travel was king, Sulphur Springs was popular, and motor courts were a staple of vacationing.

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