Dead Motels

There was a HoJo about 20 miles from my house. It's gone now

I remember that Dead Motels site or one like it from 20 years ago! Wow, still around. Not dead like the motels. I just find it the worst kind of nostalgia that is depressing and grim - to see corpses.

Wow! Our country had gotten really scuzzy

I remember seeing this place in South Dakota many years ago and thought the sign was so cool looking.

When they redo something modest and pleasant.

into something ugly and soul killing

I’ve told this before. Almost 40 or so years ago, I was staying at the Parliament House in Orlando. I met a guy in the bar and we went to my room. Turned out he was Batman at Sea World and I had been there that day. Anyway, we tried the “magic fingers” bed. But it would not shut off! We could not even unplug it. We laughed and had great sex all night. I still laugh about it.

My family spent a summer in the 1970s on a cross country trip and stayed in a lot of motels. My dad would announce the town we would be stopping at and we would search the AAA guidebook to pick out a motel. It had to have a pool and A/C. I remember one Best Western that had royal blue satin bedspreads that I thought was the most elegant thing I ever saw.

Ive always had a fascination for tawdry motels but I've never had sex in one. I like the idea of a guy pulling up in his pickup, parking it right outside my motel room, and then coming in and fucking my brains out.

Ive always had a fascination for tawdry motels but I've never had sex in one. I like the idea of a guy pulling up in his pickup, parking it right outside my motel room, and then coming in and fucking my brains out.

For R10 What a pity. Are you too old to realize your fantasy?

Twenty years ago there were a string of motels on PCH between Redondo Beach and Long Beach that were utterly fascinating, I doubt many of them exist anymore. I did photograph a few, but wish I would have documented them better.

living the fantasy!

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Traveling by car and checking into roadside motels was a very dicey proposition in the late 1950s. You simply didn't know what to expect in terms of cleanliness and sanitation. Holiday Inns changed that, and travelers could be assured that the Holiday Inn in Amarillo, Texas had the same standards as the one in Flagstaff, AZ.

We traveled every summer from 1958 to 1966, and Holiday Inns were great. But my dad had a $20/night cut off point, and if the Holiday Inn exceeded that limit, he'd go elsewhere. There was no shortage of competitors, either, as Ramada Inns, Rodeway Inns, Travelodge and HoJo's were all going after the same demographic.