Tropicana Motel / Tropics Lounge, Joplin, MO (motel) - Locating Tiki

T tikijackalope Tiki Socialite KS/MO Joined: Oct 23, 2003 Posts: 835	T tikijackalope Posted posted on Sun, Mar 10, 2013 11:32 PM I've been working with photos of Joplin's lost mid-century motels, so I took the opportunity to restore the photos in this thread. They're saves of Shutterfly uploads of scans done 11 years ago of prints and I couldn't quite adjust the color correctly, but you'll get the idea. The relocated Tropicana Lounge is still in business and is not tiki at all. Had the Tropicana not been torn down in 2002, it would have been destroyed by the May 22, 2011, tornado. The same fate would have befallen the Sands and Thunderbird motels, which were torn down before the Tropicana. All three were a few blocks apart and in the path of the rather wide tornado. http://www.thelope.com [ Edited by: tikijackalope 2013-03-10 23:33 ]

I've been working with photos of Joplin's lost mid-century motels, so I took the opportunity to restore the photos in this thread. They're saves of Shutterfly uploads of scans done 11 years ago of prints and I couldn't quite adjust the color correctly, but you'll get the idea. The relocated Tropicana Lounge is still in business and is not tiki at all.

Had the Tropicana not been torn down in 2002, it would have been destroyed by the May 22, 2011, tornado. The same fate would have befallen the Sands and Thunderbird motels, which were torn down before the Tropicana. All three were a few blocks apart and in the path of the rather wide tornado.

http://www.thelope.com

[ Edited by: tikijackalope 2013-03-10 23:33 ]

Post #670591 by tikijackalope on Sun, Mar 10, 2013 11:32 PM