Bordello Chic (Again)

Madonna Inn
San Luis Obispo, CA
1970's?
Room 163 - Old-Fashioned Room

It's been a while since we last did a Madonna Inn post, so here we are. You can reenact your favorite scene from the show Westworld in this imaginatively named "Old-Fashioned Room". Lots of deep red in this room. And check out the settee (these things seem to demand that they be called settees and not, say, sofas) -- tres bordello chic. And the wallpaper...well, let's not talk about it, shall we?

Color Television, Cable and...Ice Skating Rink

Suppose you are a motel owner in the middle of freezing January, and you can't very well advertise your swimming pool (even if it's said to be heated). So, what are you going to do? How about an ice skating rink? In the past, there have been hotels and motels that have had skating rinks. For example, here's a ski resort in Vermont:

Field of Red Dreams

Holiday Inn
French Quarter, New Orleans, LA
1970's?

Feast your eyes on all this red -- clearly, the designer loved himself/herself some red. And look at that flowered bedspread, surely a contender for the world's ugliest bedspread. Also, observe how the television is affixed to the floor by a pipe, presumably to prevent drunk guests from wandering outside with it.

By the way, 1970's called and wanted that fern plant (lurking above the television) back.