Two aluminum lawn chairs — one mustard yellow, one coral red — face a perfectly oval kidney pool shimmering in Georgia summer light at the Palms Court Motor Inn in Waycross, a AAA- and American Express–approved roadside oasis on U.S. 1 and 23 that once welcomed travelers with free room TV, city water, and the reassuring promise of being "well situated back from highway." This unused chrome advertising card for the 20-unit motel owned by James and his wife is a crisp artifact of the golden age of American motor travel, when a postcard on the lobby rack was as essential as a room key. The card was never mailed — the reverse is pristine, stamped only with a handwritten price notation "EL 1-" suggesting it was priced for resale in a later collection.