New Mexico Mid Century Motels?
We’re in the throws of planning a trip to New Mexico over spring break – mainly to see the Trinity Site (which is only open 2x a year). So, we’ll be staying in Socorro and Santa Fe. I already have a cool Mid Century Motel booked in Alamogordo – anyone have suggestions for Socorro and/or Santa Fe? Kid friendly is great, a pool would be awesome!
The Belair Inn (picture to the right) is the “find” from last trip, so we’re hoping to do as well if not better this time around (look for that review really soon!).
And yes, work has been insane, but I’m still working on my Mid century Motel list (see the link at the top), I just want to write articles to introduce a few of the locations and haven’t had time.
The bathroom remodel is still in the works – and this week, we need to go get tile! I’ll let you know how that goes!
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January 29th, 2010
I don’t have any suggestions for New Mexico, and I hope this isn’t too off-topic, but I just saw a documentary about a little deserted mid-mod town that used to be a resort in the Mojave desert – I think the town is named after the lake that used to be there; Salton Sea. The reason I mention this is that it looked like they had *perfectly* preserved mid-mod/retro motels (and everything else). It seemed like a twighlight zone episode where everyone just got up from their seats in 1959 and left.
Ps. it’s kind of cool and scary at the same time that the trinity site has cool “atomic age” hotels nearby.
January 31st, 2010
I found the following blog about a recent trip to Santa Fe that seemed to have some good mid century motels. http://wedgwoodtulsa.blogspot.com/2009/11/santa-fe-motels-on-route-66.html
As for the Salton Sea, it is about 50 miles south of Palm Springs and smells awful. The lake is so salty and polluted that it kills all but one type of fish. There are some really neat videos on youtube about it including an old 1950’s advertisement about the yacht club down there.