Help: Cheesy retro hotel...seventies decor...

I'm trying to find a website I remember that featured pictures from a cheesy hotel or motel that was completely retro/seventies in design. I THINK it was still in business at the time.

For the life of me, I can't remember the name of the place or find it via Google. I want to use the rooms for reference.

Any ideas anyone?

-BCM

Might you be thinking about the THE GOBBLER?

YES!!!!!!

Thank you a million times over.

-BCM

Double-thanks!

I was just recalling this site the other day and realized I'd lost the bookmark a few years ago!

See...this is just proof that the rest of the world does not understand these types of things!

God DAMN I LOVE it!!!!!!

It's something Mike Brady would have designed. Only for real!

Interesting comparison thread to Cammo's thesis/doctorate on the demise of the tikiness of the Hanalei hotel...I wonder what the accountants would think of something like this place!

I remember being there at a very young age. The folks were visiting family and the place came highly recomended. I don't recall too much about being there other then there were so many bright colours, and that carpeting was so cool to play on. Also left me with a love for odd furniture.

There is another place just like, that near where I live in PA. It was called Mt. Airy Lodge.

I remember their TV commercials playing all the time in the 1980s showing honeymoon couples relaxing playing tennis etc. it was a huge complex in the Pocano Mountains of Pennsylvania. Every room looked like the set of a bad 1970s porno movie.

People stopped going and it just went out of business. A while back they auctioned off all the heart shaped Jacuzzis and big Roman style statues from the rooms. It was surreal seeing all that tacky stuff lined up in one place for sale.

New York times article from when it closed

It was featured in the book Weird Pennsylvania

Here are two of their TV commercials:
Summer
Winter

[ Edited by: captnkirk 2011-02-11 05:30 ]

Thanks to Hawaiian Dick for asking the question and a big thanks to Thunderlips for the answer!!
Never seen this place before and it's a great site to go through. Quite amusing as well!!
I can't believe all the shag!!!!

Mahalo, TabooDan

I think the closest we had in the Seattle area was called the Geisha Inn - it sported red shag carpeting all the way up the walls, platform beds (surrounded in shag), large black soaking tubs surrounded by floor to ceiling mirrors and the featured hot tub in its own enclosed gazebo sitting right out on Highway 99. This was NOT a family friendly place!

On 2011-02-11 05:06, captnkirk wrote:
There is another place just like, that near where I live in PA. It was called Mt. Airy Lodge.

I remember their TV commercials playing all the time in the 1980s showing honeymoon couples relaxing playing tennis etc. it was a huge complex in the Pocano Mountains of Pennsylvania. Every room looked like the set of a bad 1970s porno movie.

YES!Bad 1970s porn movie is the best description. But in a good way, the place was so cool. I have been there several times, not as a guest but to visit friends who worked there. I would go up there to hang out. My friend would get the master keys and show us the unoccupied crazy looking rooms that had red flocked wallpaper and gold cherub lamps. I havent been there since it changed into a casino but I hear its very nice. A non-cheesy nice.

On 2011-02-11 07:10, TikiGoddess wrote:

On 2011-02-11 05:06, captnkirk wrote:
There is another place just like, that near where I live in PA. It was called Mt. Airy Lodge.

I remember their TV commercials playing all the time in the 1980s showing honeymoon couples relaxing playing tennis etc. it was a huge complex in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania. Every room looked like the set of a bad 1970s porno movie.

YES!Bad 1970s porn movie is the best description. But in a good way, the place was so cool. I have been there several times, not as a guest but to visit friends who worked there. I would go up there to hang out. My friend would get the master keys and show us the unoccupied crazy looking rooms that had red flocked wallpaper and gold cherub lamps. I havent been there since it changed into a casino but I hear its very nice. A non-cheesy nice.

I went to pocono mountain high school which was adjacent to mount airy. we would cut class and hang out there until security chased us off.
in the early '90's the place was really falling apart. so the casino is a huge improvement.

as a bonus the guy playing saxophone in the commercials is fred bevans he was one of my friend's father.
the ceaser's resort was way more '70s porno though.

I have always dreamt of one day finding photographic evidence from the couple of "houses of ill repute" that Bill Westenhaver told me were Witco decorated.

Wow...those were great. Sad how all the gaudy 70's decor has not been maintained. In California we have the Madonna Inn, still in business, so good to know there are still some travelers that like to be surrounded by this type of decor.
http://www.madonnainn.com/index.php

Hotels tend to be dreadfully unimaginative. When one like this came along, surprising it did not become a cult must-go-to. 'Will never understand earthlings....

On 2011-02-12 19:11, VampiressRN wrote:
Wow...those were great. Sad how all the gaudy 70's decor has not been maintained. In California we have the Madonna Inn, still in business, so good to know there are still some travelers that like to be surrounded by this type of decor.
http://www.madonnainn.com/index.php

If you stop at the Madonna Inn, be sure to go downstairs (next to the wine shop) and check out the men's room, it screams Flinstones. Also go upstairs to the eagle's nest gift shop.

Oh, my Buddha ! That is awesomely awful and awfully awesome ! Thanks !