We start our journey through
Arizona in Chambers :
Two images of the Chieftain Motel . First card is dated 1977. Chambers is the gateway to the
Painted Desert,
Petrified Forest and the Canyon de Chelley.
The New
Painted Desert Motel also offered AAA wrecker
service, handy if you bumped into one of those petrified trees
!
Panoramic view.
In Navajo we find
the Navajo Motel, Café and Service Station. The card is dated 1961. This place was cooled by
refrigeration
and had a post office to boot !
Could you stay the night at the Painted Desert Inn in
Holbrook, here we come !
A nice selection of motels.
City Center Motel on
The Desert
View Motel was on the way home for someone in 1971, he or she
had to pay $ 14,56 for the privilege of staying here.
On
also
served American – Mexican food.
On the Old Hashknife Spread you
could find the Ranch Motel, complete with Café and Shell Service Station.
The Sentry
Hiway House was on the corner of
Sentry logo on the postcard then in real life.
Woods Inn on
Standing on a corner in Winslow, Arizona you might be looking for a place to stay.
The Entré
Restaurant & Motel offered Chinese and
American food and had 40 units.
Winslow’s Newest and Largest was the
Knotty Pines Motel at the
Ruth Martin managed this 45 unit property.
Also on the
Of the Motel
Town House I have five cards, two of them
panoramic
views. This property was on the West End of town,
had 55 rooms and belonged to the Best Western referral
chain.
On 911 East Second Street we found
the New La Siesta Motel. Mr. and Mrs. John Poeth ran this 30 unit motel.
Two images of the TraveLodge on
Loads of courts, inns, motels etc.
in Flagstaff, again listed alphabetically :
Three images of the Amber Sky Motel on the East
side of town, on 1418
First one a panoramic view. The second card mentions Mr. and Mrs. Gene Davies as Owner
– Managers. The third card, stamped in 1957, lists Fred and Thelma Kammerman as
the same.
The
and
ice cubes. Card number two, an old style chrome, lists Mr. and Mrs. Ray Young
as owner – operators. This card was stamped in 1957.
On 3300
The El
Rancho Hotel Courts were an Andy Womack
Enterprise, with Mr. R.C. Stewart as the manager and J.E. Owen
as his assistant. The chrome card is stamped 1949, the linen
card is not dated.
A couple of miles outside of
Gray Mountain Motel on
Highway 89. Great fifties cars on the panoramic view. The
first standard size card is stamped 1958.
In the aerial view the property had been increased from 19 to 33 units.
Also a
Standard Service Station.
A
more recent card (issued 1989) for the Highland
Country Inn on
The Highway
House was operated by the ‘famous
Flamingo-Highway House Hotel System’ and ‘Grub in a Tub’ could be had
from Aunt Suzie’s Kitchen.
Still able to recognize some of the old
features.
Also on Sitgreaves, but now on 121 South, was the L Motel. Nice linen card.
Two images of the
around
the pool there doesn’t seem to be any difference between these two shots.
Mr. and Mrs. T.G. Engstrom managed
the Nackard Inn,
1 block south of 66 / 89. 50 Rooms did this nice place have.
Four different cards for
the Pony Soldier Motor Hotel on 3030
Photos for cards
2, 3 and 4 were taken in 1979, the first card must be
later.
The Ramada Inn at 601
Regal 8
The Chrysler Town & Country Stationwagon looks just like
my own 1986 ‘Termite Surprise !’
Another Sentry Hiway House,
A panoramic view
of the Skyline Motel on 1526
The Timberline
Motel on 2040
On 801 W. Highway 66 we find the
TraveLodge, 2 blocks from
Someone spent a Sunday night in 1968
in the Twilite Motel and took this card along. This motel was located at
2010
East Santa Fe Avenue.
Two great late fifties images of the Whispering Winds Motor Hotel
on 922 East
Last stop in
Now we come to Williams, billing itself as
the Gateway to the Grand Canyon. We have a choice of places to rest our weary
head here :
The BelAire
Motel on West Highway 66 belonged to the
Friendship Inns of
26 Units AND Magicmattress Vibrators !
Bring it on !
Three blocks from the Post Office
was the El Coronado Motel. 42 Rooms but the lot does look alarmingly empty.
The El
Rancho had 20 units, each with a tub and
shower.
Mrs. M. Smart owned and
operated the
On
Two images of the TraveLodge on
The Westerner
Motel was on
A nice old chrome card.
And there had to be a
In Ash Fork
Mr. and Mrs. E.A. Nelson owned and managed the Copper
State Motor Court, which had Englander beds.
I particularly like the facades of these units.
Last stop in Arizona : Kingman ! From here you can make a detour to Las Vegas, like many
others did too !
The Akron Hotel Cottages was
‘away from the noise of the railroad’ and was run by Dutch and Johnny on
Boulder Dam
Highway
93, on the way to Las Vegas. Great black and white card. Later the place was
re-named Akron Motel, the
Mr. and Mrs. James L. Richardson
owned and operated the Bell Motel. This card with the fifties cars was stamped in 1963.
Great linen card
of the Brandin’ Iron Motor Hotel on highways 66
and 93. It was then Kingman’s newest and finest,
cooled by York refrigeration.
Two more wonderful linen cards, this time
of the Diamond H. Rancho Courts, 25 modern units on the
On 66 and 93, 1 mile east of
Kingman, was the Hill Top Motel. George and Eleanor Allen owned and operated this place
which had the most scenic view in Kingman.
The Rodeway Inn on
Great ‘58 Ford in front and isn’t the other car a Falcon ?
Granny keeping an eye
on the kids in the pool of the TraveLodge. This card was stamped in 1964, the cars look
earlier
than that. Second card shows a nice
line up of cars and was stamped 1967.
