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| "81 ultra-modern units", "At the crossroads of the Southwest" |
Thursday, January 31, 2013
Trade Winds Motor Hotel - Albuquerque, NM
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Eden Roc Motel - Anaheim, CA
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| Let's turn our attention back to the Disneyland-area motels of Anaheim, the city with the all-time worst/best motels per capita of any city on the planet. |
Monday, January 28, 2013
Lannon Stone Motel - Janesville, WI
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| Easily one of the creepiest motel postcards of all time. The owners - the Andreskis - are WATCHING you. Won't you come stay with them? Please? Sent in December 1952. |
Friday, January 25, 2013
Vagabond Motel - St. Petersburg, FL
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| What an absolute gem of a card. One of my current 20 best. Has shuffleboard and is "close to churches". |
Thursday, January 24, 2013
Sooner Motel - Muskogee, OK
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| The middle photo with the branded pink bedspreads is my pick 'o the card. And look what's next door - Monday's "Congress Motel", except this one's in Muskogee, OK instead of Santee, SC....! |
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Travel Haven - Hanford, CA
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| My card was sent in February 1966, back when stamps were five cents and motel signs looked as awesome as this one. |
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Del-Rey Motel - Indianapolis, IN
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| This is an exceptionally well-known card, thanks to being published in Klutz Press' book of retro motel postcards. I got hoodwinked when I bought it recently at a postcard show....thought I'd found an original, and for only $3 at that, and looked at the bottom when I returned home and it said, "Klutz Press". It still totally rules. |
Monday, January 21, 2013
Congress Inn - Santee, SC
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| Fried chicken restaurant right next door, in South Carolina no less.....as well as a "Space Age Playground", which is unfortunately not pictured. |
Saturday, January 19, 2013
Boissevain Inn - Boissevain, Manitoba
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| Our first Canadian entry ever, and it's a whopper. The "Open Keg" beverage room AND a cocktail lounge, plus the back of the postcard says the motel is the "Home of Canadian Turtle Derby". |
Thursday, January 17, 2013
Muskateer Motel - Anaheim, CA
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| Yet another gem from Anaheim, home then as now to the nation's most amazing collection of lodging. |
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Royal Inn - El Monte, CA
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| I love this place and feel like maybe I'd stayed there. But why would I have been in El Monte, right? |
Monday, January 14, 2013
Saturday, January 12, 2013
Friday, January 11, 2013
Thursday, January 10, 2013
Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Waikiki Motel - Anaheim, CA
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| Anaheim had all the best motels. This was mere blocks away from yesterday's entry, the Cosmic Age Lodge, on Katella Ave. |
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
Stovall's Inn of Tomorrow - Anaheim, CA
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| This one's a bit of a mystery. Compare this Anaheim hotel - and its background (even the car in the left foreground) - to that of The Cosmic Age that I posted earlier today. Identical, right? And yet this one's supposedly located at 1110 W. Katella, and the Cosmic Age was at 1717 S. Harbor Blvd. What gives? |
Cosmic Age Lodge - Anaheim, CA
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| My most-wanted postcard, ever. Found this at the Vintage Paper Show in San Francisco this past weekend. Stayed here in the early 1980s on a teenage trip to Disneyland. |
Monday, January 7, 2013
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