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Motel Vegas

Author: Fred Sigman

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Published: 2019

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780977880683

Art historian and photographer Fred Sigman documents the art and history of Las Vegas motels and classic neon signage that contributed to the drive for preservation and restoration during the mid-90s. Motel Vegas provides a nostalgic look into the ever-evolving landscape that is classic Las Vegas. As the boom in building casinos moved to the southern end of the Strip, some of the classic motels from the 50's and 60's near downtown and Fremont Street have been able to survive in relative obscurity. Sigman's photographs provide insight on how the economic prosperity of Las Vegas fueled the drive for tourism, while forcing change for others. Based on a previous exhibition held at the OKHarris Gallery and Smallworks Gallery. Over 75 large format photos from the most historic motel locations in Las Vegas and the surrounding area. Motel Vegas includes a foreword by Alan Hess, introduction by Scott Dickensheets, and afterword by Bob Stodal. Winner of an IPPY Award by the Independent Publisher Book Awards.

My Week at the Blue Angel

Author: Matthew O'Brien

Publisher: Huntington Press Inc

Published: 2011-03

Total Pages: 230

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A savage journey into the heart of Hunter S. Thompson's Las Vegas with the Good Doctor as tour guide. A Lord-of-the-Rings-like adventure in the city's underground flood channels. A seven-day stay at a seedy motel on East Fremont Street. The stories in My Week at the Blue Angel aren't about Steve Wynn, Cirque du Soleil, or how to play poker, and they aren't set in Caesars Palace, XS Nightclub, or a 2,000-seat showroom. They're about prostitutes, ex-cons, and the homeless, and they're set under Caesars Palace and in trailer parks and weekly motels. In this creative nonfiction collection, Matthew O'Brien--author of Beneath the Neon: Life and Death in the Tunnels of Las Vegas--and veteran photographer Bill Hughes show a side of the city rarely seen. A side beyond the neon lights, themed facades, and motel-room doors. A side beyond the barbwire fences, No Trespassing signs, and midnight shadows.

The Motel in America

Author: John A. Jakle

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 1220

ISBN-13: 9780801869181

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In the second volume of the acclaimed "Gas, Food, Lodging" trilogy, authors John Jakle, Keith Sculle, and Jefferson Rogers take an informative, entertaining, and comprehensive look at the history of the motel. From the introduction of roadside tent camps and motor cabins in the 1910s to the wonderfully kitschy motels of the 1950s that line older roads and today's comfortable but anonymous chains that lure drivers off the interstate, Americans and their cars have found places to stay on their travels. Motels were more than just places to sleep, however. They were the places where many Americans saw their first color television, used their first coffee maker, and walked on their first shag carpet. Illustrated with more than 230 photographs, postcards, maps, and drawings, The Motel in America details the development of the motel as a commercial enterprise, its imaginative architectural expressions, and its evolution within the place-product-packaging concept along America's highways. As an integral part of America's landscape and culture, the motel finally receives the in-depth attention it deserves.

Hotel & Motel Red Book

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Published: 1978

Total Pages: 960

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Motel America

Author: Andrew Wood

Publisher: Collectors Press, Inc.

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 116

ISBN-13: 9781888054910

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- A guide to funky, retro, and off-the-beaten-path motels around the United States from the author of ROAD TRIP AMERICA.- Featured motels include one where the windows face a working drive-in theater, making your bed the best seat in the house, and another where each room is an individual teepee.- Learn the inspiring stories of owners maintaining impossible-to-duplicate motels in the face of cookie cutter chains.

Directory of Hotel & Motel Systems

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Published: 1993

Total Pages: 764

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Directory of Hotel & Motel Companies

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Published: 2001

Total Pages: 808

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Motel Bizarre

Author: Stephanie Crabe

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Published: 2007

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780976403524

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A one-way trip on a neon highway to heaven and to hell, in an eclectic photographic narrative. Documents every seamy character and seedy detail waiting in the occupied rooms of No-Tell Motels all across the USA. Here are the stenchiest neon, creepiest kooks, and sexiest studs and sirens in motels on major highways and hidden back roads from Jersey to LA, Las Vegas and Florida. The doors pried open to reveal the stories and inhabitants hidden inside: encrusted glory marginal human oddities forbidden love and fantasy untold acts of goofy depravity Also for fans of classic American architecture and neon, Motel Bizarre contains dozens of rare images of neon and motels with provocative, imaginative essays and an extensive historical introduction. Desperate realism.