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It has been a long day of driving. You are tired and the family just wants to stop and rest. Pulling off the highway into Lebanon, Missouri your choice is very simple...
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munger
moss
motel
lebanon
missouri
Added: 17th August 2007
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Posted By: sneakysnake |
 
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Another of those tacky motels that appeared across America. This one is in Gila Bend, Arizona (pronounced Hee-La) This motel is southwest of Phoenix on the way to Mexico and took its que from the popularity of the space craze in the early sixties. The hotel was shut down for many years and recently renovated and is even tackier. I wasn't aware that it had been renovated until I went looking for pics of it in the 60's. I drove by this area a few years ago and it was abandoned.
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motel
space
tacky
kitsch
Added: 17th August 2007
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Posted By: dezurtdude |
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As the Space Age Lodge now appears. Google it for some wacky pics of its inside. There is now a large UFO sitting on top of the place and the lobby is...well, look for yourself when you google it. It's a regular riot. Hummm, I wonder if my wife would like to stay there on our wedding anniversary????
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space
lodge
tacky
motel
Added: 17th August 2007
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Posted By: dezurtdude |
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The California Wigwam Motel was built within the city limits of San Bernardino in 1949. . . a classic that's still going strong! and a little TRIVIA:
Wigwam Village #6 was featured in the second episode of Oprah and Gayle's Big Adventure on Oprah's TV show. . .all i remember is that they didn't stay! what a mistake!!
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wigwam
motel
rialto
ca
Added: 21st August 2007
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Posted By: lambchop |
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Boulder Hwy, Las Vegas. . . makes u want to find a couple of quarters for the bed!!
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vintage
motel
sign
las
vegas
Added: 5th October 2007
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Posted By: Teresa |
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Television evangelists seemed to be in the news for a lot of unholy behavior in the 1980s. In 1988 Jimmy Swaggart got caught with his pants down (literally). Marvin Gorman, another minster, had been exposed by Swaggart in 1986 for having an affair with one of his parishioners. Two years later Gorman got his revenge. Gorman hired a private detective to follow Swaggart. The private eye managed to take incriminating photographs of Swaggart cavorting in a motel with a New Orleans prostitute. Remember Swaggart's tearful confession? Here it is.
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Jimmy
Swaggart
scandal
Added: 6th December 2007
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Posted By: Lava1964 |
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One of the great pictures of the early takies era was It Happened One Night (1934) starring Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert. Colbert plays a spoiled heiress who runs away from her domineering father to marry her playboy fiance. Gable plays a reporter who finds her. He arranges to help her in return for an exclusive story. This scene finds the two strangers sharing a motel cabin. Gable establishes his quaint version of the 'Walls of Jericho' to keep their arrangement platonic.
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It
Happened
One
Night
Walls
of
Jericho
Added: 10th December 2007
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Posted By: Lava1964 |
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Sex scandals involving evangelists are not new. The first one occurred back in 1926, when the leading radio evangelist of the day, Aimee Semple McPherson, was allegedly involved in a doozy with a married man. On May 18, 1926, the 35-year-old McPherson arrived at Ocean Park Beach in California with her secretary for a day of swimming. Shortly after their arrival, McPherson disappeared. McPherson's mother delivered a sermon that night in place of Aimee and informed the congregation that Aimee was 'with Jesus.' The following day, hundreds of concerned parishioners ventured to Ocean Park Beach to look for their beloved Sister Aimee. One parishioner drowned and another died of exposure in the unsuccessful search. Not long after Aimee vanished, Kenneth G. Ormiston, the married engineer of the radio station McPherson owned, also disappeared. Five weeks later, Aimee emerged from the Mexican desert in a town just across the border from Douglas, Arizona. She claimed she had been kidnapped, drugged, tortured, and held for ransom in a shack. Aimee further stated she had escaped from her captors and walked 13 hours through the desert to freedom. Her story was implausible, to say the least. No shack was ever found. Aimee's shoes showed no signs of a 13-hour desert trek. (Moreover, they had grass stains on them!) She was last seen wearing a bathing suit, but reappeared in a dress and wearing a wristwatch she hadn't taken to the beach. Several witnesses claimed they had seen McPherson with Ormiston at various motels during the 35 days she was missing. McPherson and her mother were eventually charged with obstruction of justice, but the charges were dropped early the following year.
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Aimee
Semple
McPherson
scandal
Added: 15th December 2007
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Posted By: Lava1964 |
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On April 4, 1968, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., 39, was shot to death as he stood on a balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn.; the killing sparked a wave of riots across the U.S. (James Earl Ray later pleaded guilty to assassinating King, then spent the rest of his life claiming his innocence and attempting to withdraw his guilty plea; he died in prison in 1998.)
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Martin
Luther
King
Jr.,
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shot
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death
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he
stood
on
a
balcony
of
the
Lorraine
Motel
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Memphis
Tenn
James
Earl
Ray
Added: 4th April 2008
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Posted By: Old Fart |
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