The Sunset Motel in 1957. Brevard, South Carolina. View full size.
Sunset Inn. ... it a "Five-Star Dump."
The sign... is amazing! The motel looks so cozy too. I wonder if this place still exists?
Just Over ... Carolina.
Yes, it's still there. The Sunset Motel - 415 South Broad Street - Brevard, NC?
Another review from ...
... matter That big suspended ball to the right of the motel sign appears to be a counterweight holding the sign up. Why all that to ... way of holding a sign up, in keeping with style of the motel. If in fact that sign setup is in keeping with the adobe motif.
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... the Google news archives, several stories mention a Sierra Motel in Prescott, Arizona.
I'll be staying here they have 24 hour ... at Lileks.com for an hour or so looking at his vintage motel postcard collection. I highly recommend Lileks as a great complementary ...
... Garrett Dash Nelson
Key West 1957 I wonder what motel this is--they do have a PA speaker up there to the right. Maybe it's ... from 1957!
[What if we looked on eBay for Key West motel postcards. - Dave]
Those were the days When we content to just ...
Galveston, Texas - another Kodachrome by my dad, taken in November, 1960. The weather looks ominous. View full size.
Beautiful location How cool it would be to swim in that pool while the waves break in close by. I would imagine the rat ...
1000 Islands, Ontario, Canada. Two weeks ago I met the family of the lady who is standing next to the Hillman with the Dutch license plate; the owners of car emigrated to Canada in the fifties, bringing their car with them. View full size.
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... -- up at 6, breakfast (blueberry pancakes for me) in the motel dining room, drive until 2 and checking into the next Holiday Inn. We swam every afternoon in the motel pool and then dressed up and drove to the closest firehouse where my ...
... the room's OK, but cluttered with ugly furniture.
Motel Glassford There are 19 others in this set, all very modern and ... too much of the classic park-right-in-front-of-your-door motel (of which I am a great fan, unless the carpet stinks).
Like a Jungle! ...
... I hope Theisen had another shot of these three.
Motel City Based on the number of motel signs, I am guessing that this is either Van Buren Street or Grand ...
... so maybe the shade is better there.
Mardi Gras Motel This was an easy find. 3400 Biscayne Boulevard in Miami, looking ... have been preserved, though God knows what looks that motel went through in the '70s and '80s before that final bland one.
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... Hwy 40). U-Smile Court, we hardly knew ya.
U-Smile Motel I remember the U-Smile Motor Lodge on 40 Highway, near Kaufmann ... is now a Sunset Inn. U-Smile Court was just west of this motel. It was razed in the late 60's when I-435 was built.
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Nice view from a motel There is now a motel about where this photo was taken, above the appropriately named Old ...
... interesting note from Scott Wardlaw in the comments.
Motel 6 I believe this humble home may have been the inspiration for the Motel 6 franchise. And as Mrs. Wardlaw used to say, "we'll leave the light on ...
... negative by Gottscho-Schleisner. View full size.
Motel 6 Without the parking.
Cruel Joke It's like these cutting edge ... the 30's got together and said, "I know, let's design the motel of the late 50's and early 60's. They'll love it!"
The forerunner ...
... It's worse than a warehouse next door. It's a skeezy motel. And it looks like it's been there since the '60s.
2819 Willow Place ... in its one-story days. It may have also been a small motel.
We moved to our first home in Diamond Bar, in the eastern part of ...
... mom-to-a-kindergartener mind went immediately to Sally's motel in the movie "Cars."
We stayed there a few years back And you ... Mesa, AZ used to have its own version of the "Wigwam Motel" along a street naturally named Apache (the old highway). There is ...
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Greetings from HoJo's I collect tacky motel postcards from the 1950s and '60s, and this reminds me of one. The fine ... vibrant.
I see three things you don't see at today's motel pools; slide, diving board and an ashtray!
What a fantastic reminder ...