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Tourist cabins, auto and motor courts

2jakes

I'll Lock Up
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Alamo Heights ☀️ Texas
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KY Gentleman

One Too Many
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Kentucky
The Wildwood Hotel in Florence, Ky (about 9 miles south of Cincinnati) offers themed rooms for their guests. It’s a nice place located off the interstate highway a few miles.

The Hillbilly Room
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The Happy Days Room (you sleep in the Cadillac)
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A Pirate Ship Suite
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13,672
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down south
I've always been fascinated by this place. I like the way you park underneath your room. It's a few miles east of Bessemer, AL, on old US 11. Originally built in the 40s, it dates back to a time that the area was doing a little better than it is these days.
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12,017
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East of Los Angeles
Yes. Pull under the room. I've always thought that was pretty neat myself.
About 40 years ago my sister and her second husband rented a smallish two-story apartment in Long Beach, California. The living quarters upstairs consisted of a bathroom, a kitchen, a bedroom, and a living room with a Murphy bed, and the first floor consisted of three "coffin" garages separated by retaining walls that provided support for the second story. I always thought it was a reasonable and sensible way to make the most of the footprint upon which the building sat, but not long after they had their first son (in addition to my sister's son from her first marriage) they moved into the larger two-bedroom house next door. And they were less than a mile from the beach! :D
 
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Arlington, Virginia
I've always been fascinated by this place. I like the way you park underneath your room. It's a few miles east of Bessemer, AL, on old US 11. Originally built in the 40s, it dates back to a time that the area was doing a little better than it is these days.
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Park underneath your room? Im in!!
 
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My mother's basement
I hear that. Its rampant in the DC area [emoji19]

Still lots of old motels around here -- '40s thru '60s vintage, although some a little older and some a little newer. I'm happy for that, but if I were to hazard a guess, it would be that people like us, who prefer places with more individual character and vintage charm, are in the decided minority.
 
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My mother's basement
...until the old guy next door (who's been traveling for 12 hours straight, and is dog-tired) forgets to shut off his car, and the carbon monoxide kills about 4 rooms worth of occupants. :p

Rob

As I believe I mentioned earlier in this thread, family members once owned an old ('30s-vintage?) U-shaped motel with open (no doors) garage spaces between the individual units. Those parking spaces were later converted into living space.

The potential for carbon monoxide asphyxiation probably wasn't as strong there as it might be in a place where the sleeping rooms are directly above the semi-enclosed parking spaces. But, you know, that's just a guess. If that potential wasn't mitigated, such use wouldn't be permitted, I'd think.
 
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East of Los Angeles
...The potential for carbon monoxide asphyxiation probably wasn't as strong there as it might be in a place where the sleeping rooms are directly above the semi-enclosed parking spaces. But, you know, that's just a guess. If that potential wasn't mitigated, such use wouldn't be permitted, I'd think.
Just another guess, but it's probably why those parking spaces didn't/don't have doors--better ventilation. Also, if you're upstairs in the room you aren't sitting in the car with the engine running creating that carbon monoxide, and if you're in the car with the engine running you aren't upstairs breathing it in. Either way, it seems to be a relatively minor risk.
 

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