
Mid-Century Photo Friday: White Sands Motel, Alamogordo, NM
A fantastic Mid-Century Motel located in Alamogordo, NM! As always, leave a link to your Mid-Century Photo in the comments below!
Featuring Quirky Lodging, Mom-and-Pop Motels and more! Not just mid-century, but amazing places to stay the night on your Retro Roadtrip!

A fantastic Mid-Century Motel located in Alamogordo, NM! As always, leave a link to your Mid-Century Photo in the comments below!

A review to come, but thought you’d all appreciate the eye candy!

A favorite stop along Route 66 is the Blue Whale. Folk art stops like this make Route 66 fun to travel – but you have

Permanently Closed You have to give owners credit when they change the name of a motel, and yet keep the cool Googie sign. The new

Our summer trip began with a place so fun and unique that my 12 year old son now counts it as his favorite place ever.

Night before last we enjoyed a lovely night at the White Sands Motel in Alamogordo New Mexico. Situated along main street within reach of

We love to spot great preservation efforts, and in this case, The Usonian Inn LLC, originally named the Rest Haven Motel, is already on the National

We love driving Route 66 and each time we find new sites and fun finds and our favorite on the last trip was Pops in

We love personal recommendations for motels – one of the great reasons to stay a place is that you’ve heard positive feedback. This past week,

This motel came as a recommendation from two different readers, Jim Ross and Jerry McClanahan with the EZ66 guide. We added it to our stays

If you find yourself in the middle of Missouri – you’re going to want to make sure that Cuba Missouri is a stop on your

This photo, taken by a friend of mine (Studio Whimsy) – is of the Apache Motel in Moab Utah – great sign and apparently a

One of our favorite parts of Mid-Century travel is finding those fabulous out of the way motels for an affordable price. One of our biggest

Tucked away in downtown Las Vegas, The Mob Museum—formerly known as the National Museum of Organized Crime and Law Enforcement—offers more than just a glimpse

Route 66: Radiance, Rust, and Revival on the Mother Road Until October 2nd at the Albuquerque History Museum and conceived in honor of the 90th anniversary

When you step into the Neon Museum in Las Vegas — known as the “Neon Boneyard” — you step into a glowing archive of the

The Wyoming Motel in Cheyenne Wyoming If you’re interested in adding someplace you stayed to our Mid-Century Motels listings or if you are the owner

The Capitol Skyline Hotel is a hotel located near the United States Capitol in Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C. Designed by Morris Lapidus, the hotel opened

The neon green cactus sign welcomes guests to the Desert Hills Motel, a charming mid-century getaway along the Tulsa, Ok stretch of Route 66. Built

You walk into a neon shop expecting nostalgia. You leave thinking about chemistry, electricity, municipal zoning codes, and 1940s craftsmanship. That’s what happened when I

Phoenicia Lodge has been on our Mid-Century Motel directory for a long time – so when we planned a trip through upstate New York, we

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

Our last stop in Colorado Springs was our favorite – architecturally, accommodations AND price (can you get better than that?) For a very reasonable price

A huge update from the Boots Motel website! IMPORTANT UPDATE: August 15th., 2011 The Route 66 Chamber of Commerce is happy to announce that two

In another one of our attempts to save you looking for all the best resources. I thought I’d give you links to my new (or