Fremont Street, Las Vegas, NV
Postmarked in 1964
I've been collecting postcards since early 1990's, on many topics like cats, amusement parks, various cities, restaurants and ah, yeah, ugly motel rooms. But for various reasons such as vision issues, I've decided to stop connecting postcards, and this postcard above is the last one that I've purchased, off eBay. It certainly is a very cool one with these swirly neon lights on the underside of the roof. I haven't been able to identify this building, but my guess is, it might be Binion's Horseshoe Club casino. If you know this building, please do let me know. I passed by this building last year and sadly, the neon lights aren't there, just ordinary light bulbs.
So long, folks...
Cosmic Age Lodge
Anaheim, CA
1960's?
Greetings, people. I know this blog has been inactive for some reason, and it's likely to remain that way. But here's a postcard that I couldn't resist blogging about. In addition to its goofy space-age motif, my family actually stayed at this motel one night on a trip to Disneyland in early 1970's. Normally, my family didn't stay at these kinds of motels -- my parents preferred hotels that are slightly more classy. But for some reason I don't remember, there was a problem with my parents' reservation at one hotel, so we ended up spending our first night at this motel which was very close to Disneyland -- it was right down the street from the front entrance to Disneyland's parking lot (which was just a ginormous parking lot back tehn). My parents weren't fond of the motel room, but as a grade school kid, I thought it was cool, especially these glass panels with bubbles of turquoise blue and green embedded in them.
