Monday, May 21, 2007

Route 66 motels an endangered species

Route 66 motels an endangered species (AP)

Sign for The Chelsea Motel in Chelsea, Okla. A wood-frame, mom-and-pop motel that was built around 1935 to take advantage of the traffic heading west. By the 1970s, the place was going downhill.  (AP Photo/Mel Root)AP - The Riviera Courts motel is crumbling away and nobody seems to care. Once a stop along Route 66, the 2,400-mile neon carnival that connected hundreds of communities from Chicago to Los Angeles, this late-1930s Mission Revival is just a weather-worn building on the side of a country road in far northeast Oklahoma.

***So is Bates Hotel.


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