Another Day Another Picture.

Last week I was roaming on Priceline looking at motel prices because I still do not have air conditioning I can use at my house.   And the heat has set in with a vengeance here this week   with no rain clouds in sight.  

I found this place I had never heard of before   and decided to do a drive by. 

Because there are some bad Bad motels in Greater Tucson.  

Sadly when I was fully floating  several years ago     I have stayed in many of them.   

Happily several of the worse    no longer exist.  

I recall     after seeing our room at one hotel in Tucson  years ago  near Benson Highway    asking for our money back.  Because there was no way I was staying there.   The owner pretended to not know a word of English   but he sure knew "Health Inspectors"...

And we got our cash back for the room.   ;)

I am soon to do a blog post about the worse of the worse motels in Tucson. 

Anyways     this particular place used to be a Ramada.

The lobby was huge and super nice!

But the pool was closed.    And I could not find any workers to ask how long the pool was closed for. 

I believe they working on the boat     outside the lobby   First thing I spotted when I pulled up to the building.  

With the heat    I was not willing to stay any place with no pool. 

Heck for all I know    they were about to test out that boat in the pool.  

Whatever the story     This became my Picture O The Day.

While we are on Interesting Dive motels     A local Classic!

This one I have never stayed at    but have pictured several times.   And now it no longer is around.     Well the city kept the main building   and put apartments all around.    I will show more pictures soon.    From during the re build and before.   Including of shopping carts in the empty pool. 

Apparently you could rent rooms by the hour   and the ceilings had mirrors 

I read a long review    from back when people actually read newspapers   were a gentleman stayed here for a week  and he told an interesting tale for sure.     Although he cheated   he was afraid to take a shower in the motel      and went home to shower.  

Even to the end the building was overly Interesting.  

The famous sign was to be donated to The Neon Museum here in Tucson.

I have visited    and it is a great museum for sure!     Ill showcase that trip in a future Exploring blog post   very soon. 

But the sign was stole!

Some random pickup showed up    during construction and said they were there for the sign.

They were not from the Museum.

At some point the sign was returned happily.

I think the best part about this motel name    is that in our travels    a long time friend and I    called very bad motel stays     in the no tell motel.   

We were not aware there was such a place

in Greater Tucson.