Now Mansfield finds itself inundated by oil and gas workers, its motels full, and The New York Times visiting.
The project that became "Nevada Rose" emerged from a series of cross-country van trips, on which he sought to photograph different aspects of American life and culture — mechanics, motel workers, truck stops, bikers, lots and landscapes.
I had a job lined up on the assembly line with Chrysler, but the oil crisis of 1973 closed down the plant, so instead, I got a construction job building confinement breeders and living with other workers in a motel in Mediapolis, Iowa.
A motel worker who saw the assault said one of the teenagers yelled "white power" after beating Mr. Anderson.
The workers also visit motels, seeing to the medical needs of people who are on the brink of homelessness.
Mr. Weiler was arrested on Thursday after a worker at a motel in Miami, Okla., spotted bottles and other suspicious items in a garbage bin and alerted the police.
She soon persuades Boris to rent a house for her in Maine, and sets about befriending a succession of men: an L.L. Bean employee, a homeless violin player, a motel worker and a would-be novelist.
However, with the help the region's hotel-motel workers and guests, we can put up the biggest fight yet against Super Bowl-related sex trafficking, and even use this event as a model to combat trafficking throughout the year.
Authorities accused Patel of filing a dozen false tax returns related to the motel — paying workers off the books and understating room receipts — and also using the state tax computer to monitor four rival motels around Branford.
Sometimes workers stay in the motels temporarily while they find permanent housing, others are forced by poverty and other circumstances to live in them for months or even years.
