City Center Motel 1962
May 27th, 2008 @ 12:18 am by Cliffe | Sorted Vintage Ads |
A Memorial Day road trip needs a good motel for when you’ve run out of gas money. Fitting the bill for many years was the City Center Motel, conveniently located on Aurora. Check this vintage 1962 ad showing the property and its features (some were coming soon). These days this location is a
Holiday Inn Express, still serving travelers along 99. Do we have any readers who stayed here back when it was the City Center Motel?
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City Center Motel, 226 Aurora Ave., Seattle, Washington. Truly the only “MOTEL” in downtown Seattle that features parking directly in front of the guest rooms. The City Center Motel is conveniently located and easily accessible from all parts of the city. A cafe, cocktail lounge and swimming pool are planned for the near future. From “Beautiful Seattle Offers A Plus Convention,” Seattle Chamber of Commerce, 1962.
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The site of the Kings Inn Motel at 2106 5th Ave. is the same as the Towne Centre Motel shown on the postcard. The King’s Inn looks like like it could be about that vintage. I wonder if it is the same building. The postcard depicts the Towne Centre as taking up the whole block on the “east” side of 5th, which the Kings Inn does not.
http://www.kingsinnseattle.com/
It’s good that courtesy is important in regards to how they treat their guests. Also, just down right consideration.
All non-commerical travelers are escorted out by security.
Now a Holiday Inn Express, huh? Probably a good thing.
“Are you a doctor?”
“No, but I did stay at the City Center Motel last night!”
John M: You are correct. Same hotel. An ad for the Towne Centre was also in this publication. I’ll post it soon.
Cliffe
Sparkle Clean housekeeping and telephones? I am going to steal that baby right out from underneath all the guests.
I just ran across an old postcard from the City Center Motel going through a stack of old Century 21 stuff. My family and I stayed there in 1964 while we visited the World’s Fair. We were en route to Ft Lewis, where my father was to be commander of the signal group assigned to the 4th Infantry Division. Lots of memories, mostly of things long gone, like the good old Bubbleator.
I did stay there for one night in 1990, I believe. They gave me a room on the 2nd floor, it was clean and orderly. It was not that bad at all.