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JD
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BC Dave Site Admin
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Posted: Oct Sat 15, 2011 2:18 pm Post subject: I think so |
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For the longest time there was an abandoned old place on Virginia quite a ways south of town. I remember walking by it and it pretty much looked like the motel in the ebay link. |
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JD
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Posted: Oct Sat 15, 2011 6:50 pm Post subject: Hill & Sons |
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But do you recognize THIS motel, Dave? Anyone?
I think the one YOU'RE thinking of was the Mark Twain close in or Merry Wink way out South...same style (U shaped motor court with pool in the courtyard), same vintage, and many examples down on S. Virginia and East 4th Street.
There are still some out on 4th...777 is one, Pony Express Lodge, The Sandman (w/ '40 Ford sign) Sutro Motor Lodge, and there's more if I think about them.
But who knows what became of the Hill & Sons Motel?
NO FAIR USING GOOGLE. |
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BC Dave Site Admin
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Posted: Oct Sun 16, 2011 11:41 am Post subject: No fair? |
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I remember family vacations in the '60s too. And we always stayed at motels with either pools or near a beach. Ours were usually in B.C. either the Okanogan or Vancouver Island.
Jeez...No fair using Google? What's left? Oh I remember - I had a memory! Alright I'm engaging it's full capacity right now and.... Man I can remember Cocktail waitresses from the eighties! Your motel, well kinda, sorta, maybe.
Actually I looked for it on Google Earth which lets you zoom back to 1990 on some areas of South Virginia. I didn't find it though. Given the description of the location, "Two miles south of the Reno Arch", it should be pretty close to the Peppermill right?
J.D. give me some credit for actually being interested. Can you scan the booklet and post that? Are you going to reveal more on this place?
You may be right that I have the wrong place in mind. But the one I remember occupied a large piece of real estate like the post card shows. However by the time I saw it in the mid to late eighties, I'm sad to say, it was just a dusty old place with sage brush growing here and there. |
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BC Dave Site Admin
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Posted: Oct Sun 16, 2011 11:59 am Post subject: More googling... |
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J.D.
I did some image and map searching for the two other motels you mentioned. It couldn't have been the Merry Wink as it's too far south. I used to go on long walks from town but never made it past the Meadowood Mall.
So was it the Mark Twain? Could be, but the images I find for it don't look as familiar. |
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JD
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john Site Admin
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Posted: Oct Sun 16, 2011 2:43 pm Post subject: Re: Reno Motor Lodges |
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JD wrote: | Hint: Hill & Sons Motel's address was 2701 South Virginia (one of those old postcards had the address) and I remember it had a restaurant near the open end of the "U" close to Virginia Street. My flawed memory remebers it as kind of like a Denny's with a few slot machines. Times change. |
The Peppermill's address is 2707 S. Virginia. I think it may have been the start of something larger.
Sorry, JD, I couldn't grab the images from the pages you linked to. |
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BC Dave Site Admin
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Posted: Oct Sun 16, 2011 3:37 pm Post subject: Thanks |
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Got my fresh air. It gave me a headache. Wow, this is the busiest the board has been on a Sunday for a long time. Good thing we have such interesting lives.
As it happens I am the proud owner of that book. (Thanks to John!) I didn't need Google after all. The shame of it all!
John you nailed it! You da man, Mr. Reno!
J.D. You know you're right. The old postcards are pretty cool. You have to do some memory work but those old motels were actually pretty inviting back in the sixties. It's a shame that they are largely sad reflections of their former selves now.
I stayed at the City Center Motel once. 20+ years ago. It was across Virginia from Circus Circus. I had driven into Reno on the weekend and there were no hotel rooms left. Circus Circus found the room for me with their reservations computer. It was $50 a night. I stayed for one night. Everything was OK except for the mattress. It had an odd incline that constantly threatened to roll me back onto the floor. Guess that was their way of saying, "Hey this town's not for sleeping, get out and gamble!"
http://www.art.com/products/p13073995-sa-i2304239/ray-laskowitz-city-center-motel-sign-at-dusk-reno-nevada.htm |
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