Port Huron Motor Inn

Foot of the Blue Water Bridge. 100 luxurious units. Featuring excellent food at “The Inn at the Bridge.” Dining, entertainment, bowling, indoor and outdoor swimming. 1720 Hancock, Port Huron, Michigan.

Hotel Commodore, NYC

Park Avenue at 42nd Street on the fashionable East Side. New York’s Best Hotel Buy.

Griswold’s, Claremont, CA

Swedish Restaurant featuring SMORGASBORD

We make our own fine preserves and candied fruit

Continental Bakery and gift shop

Phone NAtional 4-9031

Sands Motel, Blythe, CA

“Telephone 7441…50 Units Completely Air Conditioned by Refrigeration…T.V….Telephones…Hi-Fi…Combination Tub & Showers, Ceramic Tiled Baths…Bottled Water.”

Today it is a Regency Inn & Suites.

Meet Me at Woody’s

Frontier Lodge, Glenwood Springs, CO

“A nice place for nice people.”

Fjords Smorg-ette, Ukiah, CA

Opened in 1965. Closed in 1989. Recently demolished to make way for an In-N-Out Burger. More information here:

Colonial Inn, Santa Cruz, CA

The Repository of Bland Lodging

An ever-increasing collection: boring postcards from motels, hotels, and miscellaneous residences across the United States.

First in the series: Bellflower Friendship Manor, Bellflower, CA. A retirement community owned by First Baptist Church of Bellflower and managed by American Baptist Homes of the West, a non-profit corporation.

Meet Arnold.

Found at a Berkeley yard sale over the weekend. We haven’t decided how to dress him to coordinate with our two female torsos, so he’s occupying our antique wheelchair for now.