February 24th, 2009 @ 12:12 am by Cliffe | Sorted Photo Exposure
How refreshing! Check out the 1960’s era promotional photo for Aurora’s Plaza Motel. Mom watches as junior dives in — it’s raw, it’s unpolished, it’s got chain-link in the foreground. This was at one time a Howard Johnson Inn and more recently the
Continental Plaza Seattle. I can’t tell if this building still exists or was torn down to build
Domaine condos. Anyone know? Click for further study.
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| Continental Plaza Motel, 2500 Aurora Ave. N., Seattle, Wash, 98109. (206) at 4-1900. 100 deluxe soundproof units in 4 large buildings with landscaped grounds, heated pool, restaurant. Panoramic mountain and lake view. T.V. - phone - radio. Kitchen units available. Group meeting rooms. 4 minutes downtown. Close to Canal Locks, U of W, Woodland Park, Seattle Center. |
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February 24th, 2009 @ 4:23 am
It’s a little of both - one of the building still exists, at least as a shell, and the rest were torn down. The back buldings, the parking lot, and the pool area was completely torn up for the new condos, but the tallest and largest building, the one that runs along Aurora, was gutted and new units are being built into the same concrete and steel shell.
February 24th, 2009 @ 8:24 am
I was gonna say, I don’t believe there have been any real motels on that stretch of Aurora for many years, with the exception of that one seedy one-story motel right across the street from this that is a notorious prostitute/drug motel.
February 24th, 2009 @ 10:47 am
Grandma Dottie was excited about seeing little Jimmy do his patented swimming pool diving move, “The Dolphin Fountain of Joy.” Soon after this shot, however, Grandma Dottie had to jump in and save Jimmy because it turned into the Dolphin Fountain…of DOOM!
February 24th, 2009 @ 12:01 pm
There is something kind of creepy voyeur about this shot. That or it’s like the “Lowered Expectation” ad of motel marketing.
February 24th, 2009 @ 5:41 pm
That kid looks like he’s being held up and forced to walk the plank. And from the viewer’s perspective we’re some sort of pervert watching the whole situation unfold.
February 24th, 2009 @ 6:34 pm
What kind of car is that behind the fence? Nice fins! And what’s that green squared building thing beyond the car? Creepy indeed.
February 26th, 2009 @ 1:10 pm
That car looks like it’s a 57-59 Chrysler 300
February 28th, 2009 @ 3:48 pm
Dan Davis e-mailed me further info:
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“If you look at the maps.live.com bird’s eye view just right, it still shows the area before construction began. You can clearly see the Plaza Motel and its swimming pool. In the top photo, looking west, it’s center-right, the pool white and empty. The second photo looks south, motel and pool in lower left. The last photo looks north with the edge of the pool hanging out over 6th Ave. N.
The stair-stepped building to the south was the Continental Plaza Seattle.”