The American Motel

Motel postcards from the 1950s/60s.   Are any of these motels still standing in your hometown?   

http://www.lileks.com/motels/

Any hotels that were in existence in the 50/60's along the Mississippi Gulf Coast are sadly gone. They checked out to the great sleepy motel in the sky.

Seriously they were either wiped out by Hurricane Betsy, Camile or finished off by Katrina. Ones that didn't suffer at the hands of nature were eaten up by the casinos.

Cool link though.

I saw a few old motels like that during my road trip this summer. I can't remember where exactly-somewhere between Tennessee and California. 

Yes they are actually.

I live in central Illinois, Champaign-Urbana right now (about 100,000 people, 140,000 when the University is in), and I can think of three still in existence and still hotels within a 5 minute drive the Lincoln Lodge, Blue Star Inn and the Courtesy Motel http://www.lincolnlodge.net/, , but in my hometown, 5600 residents, we had three like that until the late 90's when a super 8 came in and wiped all but one out. I'm not sure if the last one is still a motel or has become low income housing, which is what the other two became.

-Tyler

The Mid Town Motel/Hotel is stil around in Boston, MA and it looks the same sadly.  It's in a FAB location right near Copley, but it looks so retro/ghetto.

The scary Brown's Motel on Rt 40 near Baltimore:

http://brownsmotel.net/contact/

My ex used to joke about how he was conceived there during one of their day rates!