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| Teepees: Wigwam Villages (page 2) |
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| Wigwam Village #2 Cave City, KY |
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Redford patented his Wigwam Village concept in 1936 and built this second location in 1937 in Cave City. It has 15 teepee motel rooms and is the oldest surviving location. There are also two smaller teepees built as restrooms. The main teepee is 52 feet tall (first photo above). It housed the office, a restaurant, a gift shop, and a museum with Redford's collection of Indian artifacts. In the 1960s or 1970s, the restaurant and gas station closed. The "EAT AND" text on the sign was also probably painted over at that point. In the 1990s, the artifacts were auctioned off.
The sign was built in the 1940s by the City Neon Co. of Owensboro, KY. It had painted panels. The sign was restored in 2021 by Rueff Signs in Louisville, KY. There were originally Standard Oil gas pumps beneath the sign. For more, see these websites: 1 and 2. [map] |
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