Posts Tagged ‘Hotel’
Drake Motel – Nashville, TN
Drake Motel - Stay Where the Stars Stay by newartsweb More Icons T-Shirts The Drake Motel has been on Murfreesboro Road between Nashville's airport and music row since at least 1975. It started life as the Drake Motor Court. The neon sign proudly states that it is where the stars stay, but it's doubtful a star has stayed in quite some time [...]
El Ray Motel Reno Nevada
El Ray Motel Print by Tom Spaulding I can't find any details about the history of this hotel other than it's on North Arlington Avenue in Reno, Nevada. But I love the classic googie architecture. Check out the double boomerangs in weathered yellow and green along with the amoeba-like sign and the stylized lettering. This is a great find [...]
Blue Angel Motel
Blue Angel Motel / Cygnus Loop Supernova Poster by urbanphotos Large format poster printing from zazzle This is a very cool Las Vegas print featuring the Blue Angel Motel, a mid to late 1950s hotel on Fremont Street. The sign is classic googie architecture. This was a very modern style used in the 50s and 60s with an emphasis on space age [...]
Palms Motor Hotel
Palms Motor Hotel by RobertMars See other Artsprojekt Posters Excellent pop art collage featuring a vintage motel sign. The Palms Motor Hotel is in Portland, Oregon, and sits beside Highway 99. The Palms opened in 1954 and it doesn't look like the sign has changed since! The car looks to be a roughly early 1960s Chevrolet Impala [...]
6 & 40 Motel Print
6 & 40 Motel Print by Marianne Luther Beautiful textured print of a motel in Idaho Springs, Colorado. The motel is so named because it's on Route 6 and Route 40 in Colorado. The sign itself is an excellent example of Googie architecture. While I couldn't find any information on the age of this hotel, based on the design of the sign, [...]
Lincoln Motel – Massillon, Ohio
Vintage Motel Sign 1 Poster Print by image_americana This excellent poster print is by Joanne Mariol, and depicts what appears to be a mid-century motel sign. I have not been able to unearth the whole history of this motel in Massillon, Ohio, but have confirmed that the motel and its sign were destroyed around 2003 to make way for new [...]
Colony Hotel in Miami at night
Art Deco District at Dusk, Ocean Drive Miami Beach, Miami, Florida, United States of America Collections Framed Art Poster Print by Gavin Hellier One of the most photographed facades in South Beach, Miami, the Colony Hotel was designed by Henry Hohauser, the Art Deco district’s most famous and [...]
Woodville Hotel Adelaide
Woodville Hotel, Adelaide by davidt66 Browse other Art deco Posters The Woodville Hotel is a wonderful Art Deco style pub on the Port Road in Adelaide, Australia. With a rounded prow, stepped roofline down from the central chimney and the large vertical fin wrapping around the building, it looks like an ocean liner steaming towards the [...]
Colony Hotel – Miami, Florida
Colony Hotel, Miami by davidt66 A lovely illustrated poster showing some great art deco lines. Miami's South Beach is a-buzz with great deco and modernist buildings with Ocean Drive its beachfront chowcase. The Colony Hotel (1935) was designed by architect Henry Hohauser.
Hyatt Regency Hotel – Atlanta
The Future Is Today by marksda1 See more Atlanta Posters The futuristic rooftop of the Atlanta Hyatt Regency Hotel. This trendsetting hotel, designed by John Portman, in 1967 was the first to feature an atrium in the middle of the hotel, now a common feature. When it was built, this rooftop restaurant, the Polaris, was at the top of a new city [...]