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deadmotelsusa · 3 months
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No, this isn’t a postcard from the 60s. This is a room at the Koolwink Motel in 2024.
Unlike most of the motels featured in my posts, the Koolwink is alive and well and has been operating under the same name since 1936. Nestled in the hills of Romney, West Virginia, the motel buildings, office and rooms are a time capsule of the past. Each room is perfected with wood paneling and original midcentury furniture. The motel’s logo (Mr. Koolwink) has been featured on the motels signs, notepads, mugs and mints for the past 6 decades.
The Koolwink opened in the 30s by Nora and Henry Cline. In the 1950s, Wallace and Pauline Mauk purchased it from his great-aunt Nora. Today, it’s owned and operated by Wallace and Pauline’s daughter Kay and her husband Robert. Kay was kind enough to chat with me and share some history of the motel as well as a few older photos - if you look closely at the black and white shot, you can see Kay and her twin brother Jay as toddlers!
It’s so clear that this property has been well cared for. Our room was clean, affordable and gave us the exact experience we were looking for. The Koolwink’s website describes their motel as “a modern facility with a retro feel,” which is exactly what it is. I really loved my stay there. Kay left me with a hug and a “come visit us again soon.” I will definitely be back.
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oldshowbiz · 8 months
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A sordid classic, frequently overlooked, at Hollywood and LaBrea.
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jinxysmidcentury · 1 year
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retropopcult · 2 years
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July 1957
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personainexile · 2 months
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crownedstoat · 1 year
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Holiday Inn firepit Bethlehem PA
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Holiday Inn firepit Bethlehem PA by William L. Bird Via Flickr: Routes 22 and 512 "The Conversation Pit" is part of the tastefully appointed lobby. The El Cetro Room is the ultimate in dining comfort.
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mikeyboards · 2 years
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tastethebuscuit · 1 year
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El Vado Motel on Route 66. Albuquerque, NM
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circuitmouse · 2 months
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Blue Marlin Motel, Daytona Beach, Florida
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formosadaily · 7 months
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The Galleon Room
Remember your neighborhood in the nineties? All the crusty old local establishments that seemed like holdovers from the seventies — which at the time, weren’t so long ago? Here’s one that never existed, but definitely could have, a divey midcentury motel brand straight from the rundown side of your childhood hometown There’s something gloriously bold and arbitrary about hotel themes from those…
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iihih · 10 months
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Seth Smith Summer Paintings of Swimming Pools
June has arrived and there’s no better time to introduce you to Seth Smith Summer paintings. Inviting depictions of swimming pools at Midcentury Modern hotels, motels and private homes by the talented 43 year old artist will make you want to don a swimming cap and jump on in. Seth Smith Summer Paintings of Swimming Pools Glide, 48″ x 30″, oil on panel Seth Smith was born and raised in Kansas…
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deadmotelsusa · 1 year
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The Rosewind Motel of Cape Coral, Florida, pictured in 1966 and 2021. It was abandoned from 2006 to 2010. In 2011, it was purchased, painted beige and the pool was filled in. Today, it operates as The Haven apartments. 
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oldshowbiz · 6 months
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The Deer Creek RV Park Motel
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jinxysmidcentury · 2 years
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Long hot summer
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brokehorrorfan · 2 years
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The Architecture of Suspense: The Built World in the Films of Alfred Hitchcock will be published in hardcover, paperback, and e-book on September 8 via University of Virginia Press.
Written by architectural historian Christine Madrid French, the 274-page book examines the architecture found in Hitchcock films. Architect/historian Alan Hess provides a foreword.
The inimitable, haunting films of Alfred Hitchcock took place in settings, both exterior and interior, that deeply impacted our experiences of his most unforgettable works. From the enclosed spaces of Rope and Rear Window to the wide-open expanses of North by Northwest, the physical worlds inhabited by desperate characters are a crucial element in our perception of the Hitchcockian universe. As Christine Madrid French reveals in this original and indispensable book, Hitchcock’s relation to the built world was informed by an intense engagement with location and architectural form—in an era marked by modernism’s advance—fueled by some of the most creative midcentury designers in film.
Hitchcock saw elements of the built world not just as scenic devices but as interactive areas to frame narrative exchanges. In his films, building forms also serve a sentient purpose—to capture and convey feelings, sensations, and moments that generate an emotive response from the viewer. Visualizing the contemporary built landscape allowed the director to illuminate Americans’ everyday experiences as well as their own uncertain relationship with their environment and with each other.
French shares several untold stories, such as the real-life suicide outside the Hotel Empire in Vertigo (which foreshadowed uncannily that film’s tragic finale), and takes us to the actual buildings that served as the inspiration for Psycho’s infamous Bates Motel. Her analysis of North by Northwest uncovers the Frank Lloyd Wright underpinnings for Robert Boyle’s design of the modernist house from the film’s celebrated Mount Rushmore sequence and ingeniously establishes the Vandamm House as the prototype of the cinematic trope of the villain’s lair. She also shows how the widespread unemployment of the 1930s resulted in a surge of gifted architects transplanting their careers into the film industry. These practitioners created sets that drew from contemporary design schools of thought and referenced real structures, both modern and historic. The Architecture of Suspense is the first book to document how these great architectural minds found expression in Hitchcock’s films and how the director used their talents and his own unique vision to create an enduring and evocative cinematic world.
Pre-order The Architecture of Suspense by Christine Madrid French.
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lickingyellowpaint · 10 months
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okay but what if someday soon I saved up and got a round-trip ticket, rode the 19 hours down, spent a nice night in the Quarter, then rode 19 back up the next day?
I did 44 Greyhound round for one day in NYC but I was younger and less tired then lol
like I know it's barely worth it but jfc if I don't get AWAY for a bit soon I'm gonna snap
who am I kidding, I'd even settle for a whole 24 hours in one of the midcentury bedbug motels down the block...
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