If you’re driving south on Highway 43 in Tuscumbia, Alabama, just past North Alabama State Fair Park, you can’t miss the gigantic lot with wooden pallets stacked one on top of the other. You’ll see a few industrial buildings looming in the back, a large McVantage Packaging sign puncturing the horizon, and a motel?
Yes, a motel. For years, the Four Way Inn sat smack-dab in the middle of the 50-acre McVantage Packaging property. An aging, one-story complex with a green roof, the motel spent the mid-2010s slipping down the spectrum of decency, launching as an inexpensive travel lodging option but declining due to increasingly dangerous renters.