Tourist cabins, auto and motor courts

[2jakes]

Texaco Porcelain gas station door knob:

Is now the stick-shift knob.

Radiator cap by Texaco:

’46 GM. Inside glove-compartment are old Texaco & Mobil maps.

 

[tonyb]

Love that pickup. How long you had it?

 

[2jakes]

Love that pickup. How long you had it?

Thanks. I bought it from GM dealer back in mid ‘90s.
Before that I had a ’39.

 

[BobHufford]

Down the road (Rt. 66) from the Rest Haven above is the Trail's End Motel (still around, but now known as Rancho Court and rented as apartments).

 

[Fading Fast]

⇧ That's quite the intricate stone and brick work for a motor lodge. Glad they survived and found new life as apartments or, in a way, small rental houses.

 

[tonyb]

⇧ That's quite the intricate stone and brick work for a motor lodge. Glad they survived and found new life as apartments or, in a way, small rental houses.

Perhaps labor was cheap when this place was built? Or the original owner was a skilled stonemason looking by a bit of self-expression?

 

[Fading Fast]

Perhaps labor was cheap when this place was built? Or the original owner was a skilled stonemason looking by a bit of self-expression?

Both are smart possibilities. NYC is loaded with pre-war buildings that have incredibly intricate stonework that, I've been told, were built by an army of cheap, but highly skilled ("in the old country") immigrant labor. Also, they say, no one could afford today to hirer that type of skilled worker in the quantities needed to replicate that work. So that could explain it or, as you also note, it could have just been the whimsy of the owner.

 

[tonyb]

Gotta wonder how many motels named Trail's End there were in, say, 1962. I'm sure I've seen a few.

 

[Ghostsoldier]

Not a cabin or lodge, but funny, nevertheless.

Rob

 

[tonyb]

^^^^^
That's precious. Where is it?

 

[Ghostsoldier]

I'm not sure...I picked it up off of the web somewhere, lol.

Rob

 

[Ghostsoldier]

Rob

 

[Stanley Doble]

Perhaps labor was cheap when this place was built? Or the original owner was a skilled stonemason looking by a bit of self-expression?

Cities like New York are full of buildings built and decorated by skilled stone masons before the 1930s. Then the modern glass and brick, or glass and aluminum look came in and the stone masons were out of work. Then of course large building projects ground to a halt in the depression.

It was not unknown for those who could afford it, to do building projects like that to give employment to local labor during the depression.

 

[Ghostsoldier]

A few from my home state...

Rob

 

[Ghostsoldier]

Rob

 

[2jakes]

^^^^^
That's precious. Where is it?

I just received notice on my email today from June 26 about that sign in question.

Located in Hollywood, Florida.

 

[2jakes]

Colorado:

Indeed!

 

[tonyb]

Colorado:
View attachment 79221 Indeed!

That one is on South Broadway in Englewood. I've driven past it a hundred times.

 

[2jakes]

With regards to BobHufford’s post:


At one time the missions in Texas were covered
with colorful tiles.


All that remains after several centuries.


Artist rendition:
.

 

[BobHufford]

With regards to BobHufford’s post:
View attachment 79225

At one time the missions in Texas were covered
with colorful tiles.

On a related note...