Out with the old

Posted on August 27, 2014

Before interstates snaked their way around Florida, Taylor County’s U.S. 19 was a main throughway for travelers going north and south. Perry came to be known as the “motel capital of the south” with lodges lining the highway. Once such overnight stop was The Holiday Lodge, originally built by the Sadousky family. Patricia Lindsey and her late husband, Joseph, purchased the lodge in 1972, operating it until they sold it to the Hoke Davis family in 1978. The motel’s name was then changed to The Chaparral Inn. Today, demolition is underway of the now-vacant establishment, to make way for a projected new fuel plaza at the South 19 location.

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