Great American Roadside Motel

[longknife]

I was hoping this would include pictures from the outside. But, these are interesting. Anyone stayed in one of these?

Article @ Mourning the Death of the Great American Roadside Motel | Raw File | WIRED

 

[Moonglow]

many times....I'm in one now, but this motel, built in the late 1950's is renovated and does not have the veneer wood paneling from the 1960's-70's..

There is the Author Murray motel down the road that does along with the Bel Aire motel in Noel, Mo. Mostly everything here is old..

 

[Pennywise]

They are harder and harder to find. I love the old motor lodges.

 

[longknife]

I remember seeing this one.

 

[pismoe]

MUNGER MOSS Motel , I stayed here for one night in 83 . Its old and famous and signs advertising it started outside Chicago if I remember correctly . [famous to some I guess] --- Munger Moss Motel: A Route 66 Classic ---

 

[pismoe]

we had a TEEPEE villiage on Lakewood lane in Harvey just outside Marquette Michigan . Mostly for tourists that wanted to stay in a plywood teepee in the woods close to Lake Superior . Hunters from lower Michigan also stayed in them .

 

[pismoe]

teepee villiage in Harvey Michigan . --- Childhood Memories of the TeePee Resort - Marquette, Michigan ---

 

[pismoe]

how about some HOTELS like the newly reopened PRAIRIE City Hotel in Oregon . --- Historic Hotel Prairie | Come stay at Historic Hotel Prairie and enjoy the best of the old and the new. --- mostly interesting because of the history . Prairie city is about 20 miles up the road from JOHN DAY Oregon . There is very little in JOHN DAY and even less in Prairie City

 

[pismoe]

and the NORTHLAND HOTEL in Marquette Michigan . I stayed there with my parents , brothers and sisters in this hotel in about 1964 . At that time it was the NORTHLAND HOTEL and the bathroom was across the hall . I also worked there as a dishwasher and as a bellman and gopher , waiter , overnight lobby cleaner in about 1965 . The passanger elevator was an OTIS I think and it was brass with manuel controls . At some time in the late 70s the hotel was converted to housing . Looks like its been renamed and remade back into a hotel . --- The Landmark Inn | ---

 

[shart_attack]

They all smell like curry now.

And why do I always want another 7-11 Slurpee when I dial the front desks?

 

[shart_attack]

many times....I'm in one now

That doesn't surprise me one bit.

 

[peach174]

I remember seeing this one.

I stayed at one of those Teepee Motels with my Mom & Dad when I was a kid in South Dakota and at another one is Arizona when I was on a trip with my mom and 2 of her friends when I was a teen.

 

[pismoe]

CLOWN MOTEL in Tonapah Nevada, bikers welcome . --- The Clown Motel, Tonopah, Nevada ---

 

[seeJudy]

Those buildings look very interesting, which make me think of those films shot by Hitchcock.