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  • Admiral Motel – Denver, CO
  • Bo-Bet Motel – Mount Ephraim, NJ
  • Cloister Motel – Denver, PA
  • Crown Cafeteria – Long Beach, CA
  • Colonial House – Oxnard, CA

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  • Admiral Motel – Denver, CO

    July 16, 2026
  • Bo-Bet Motel – Mount Ephraim, NJ

    July 15, 2026

    This coffee shop in particular is stunning….!

  • Cloister Motel – Denver, PA

    July 14, 2026

    “Modern units with ceramic baths – situated in the heart of the Penna. Dutch Country”

  • Crown Cafeteria – Long Beach, CA

    July 22, 2025
  • Colonial House – Oxnard, CA

    July 21, 2025

    Well, we weren’t always so innocent. More here.

  • Old Heidelberg Restaurant – Chicago, IL

    July 11, 2025

    My postcard of this was dated September 15th, 1944 but was unsent and unaddressed – just a short blurb about “We had dinner and saw broadcast. Pictures taken of people dancing. Food was so good & place beautiful. – Mom”.

  • Charter House Hotel Rib Room – Cleveland, OH

    July 10, 2025

    Goddamn it. The Rib Room!! To be back in 1955 and dancing at the Rib Room on a Saturday night.

  • Long Bay Restaurant – Myrtle Beach, SC

    July 9, 2025
  • Tick Tock Restaurant – Hollywood, CA

    July 8, 2025

    “A truly ‘different’ place”, as it says. Carpet/flooring is to die for.

  • The Nugget – Reno, NV

    June 30, 2025

    Sometimes a photo like this one tells you more about the late 50s/early 60s than any historical blatherings. The close-cropped conservative haircuts on the men; the button-down leisure shirts (all still selling in vintage stores to this day); the weird thing where advertisements would put certain words in quotation marks for no reason, i.e. “Best by “taste” test).

  • Joe Hrdlicka’s – St. Louis, MO

    June 29, 2025

    A bygone era if there ever was one – where adults would pay to see an owner’s “funny hats”, drink to excess, and taste his wife’s “bohemian dishes”, which I assume to refer to the renown food of Central Europe.

  • The Willows – Lancaster, PA

    June 18, 2025

    Hold on – these guys have Dutch Meals?? Stop the car!

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