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Florida Motels and Art Deco
| May 17, 2007

Retro Tourism, Architecture and Signage. Author Wayne Curtis has a good commentary and slideshow posted by The Atlantic Unbound.

You can read the online version of the article in The Atlantic if you are a subscriber.

One excellent insight is that, in these motels, the architecture itself becomes advertisement. That echoes the ideas of Venturi and Brown in the classic book, Learning from Las Vegas.

Another nice site documenting retro and vernacular signage is by PJ Chmiel. And you might take a look at the Miami Art Deco on Fickr.

Link:  Florida Motels

Tags:  architecture, florida, retro, signage

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cameron thomas
on August 12, 2007

ah, that video was wonderful (and wonderfully depressing). that too was my childhood... from week long family vacations to a quick weekend, the family would jump in my dad's enormous station wagon and head over to some new beach (from orlando, a quick drive)... we would then find a cheap motel with a pool and kitchenette.

i loved it when the narrator said, "real classic sort of flintstones modern" speaking about his favorite motel, the surf.

 

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