Palms Motel, Mobile, AL (motel)

Name:Palms Motel
Type:motel
Street:3944 Government Blvd. (US 90 West)
City:Mobile
State:AL
Zip:36609
country:USA
Phone:
Status:defunct

Description:
The site is now (April 2013) occupied by a Sonic Drive In.

I saw these items on eBay and thought they were interesting.

You could have stayed here at the Palms Motel after a night at the Tiki Supper Club
http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=41053&forum=2

I received the below message from LGZ who found this thread while doing some research. I think it's interesting enough to share. Thank you LGZ for sending it to me.

On 2013-11-07 02:02, LGZ wrote:
Just found your post of this postcard etc... from Palms Motel in Mobile Ala which I found from a search I did. Thanks for posting it! I thought you might be interested to know a fascinating bit of trivia about this place I found connected to the JFK assassination during my research on the topic. Lee Harvey Oswald and his wife Marina stayed here on 7/27/63 when they were brought to Mobile by his cousin, Eugene John Murrett, so Oswald could speak at Spring Hill College (in Mobile) where Murrett was a student. His speech was about his life in Russia apparently. Here is the FBI report about his visit which detailed his stay at the Palms Motel.

http://www.history-matters.com/archive/jfk/wc/wcvols/wh25/pdf/WH25_CE_2649.pdf

Interesting bit of history. If walls could talk, what stories they could tell.

They'd say "Hey, a patsy slept here." :wink: